Training a Parent in Wheelchair Skills to Improve Her Child's Wheelchair Skills: A Case Study

Autor/inn/en	Kirby, R. Lee; Smith, Cher; Billard, Jessica L.; Irving, Jenny D. H.; Pitts, Janice E.; White, Rebecca S.
Institution	Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA)
Titel	Training a Parent in Wheelchair Skills to Improve Her Child's Wheelchair Skills: A Case Study
Quelle	(2010), (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Caregivers; Congenital Impairments; Training; Parents; Assistive Technology; Parent Education; Hypothesis Testing; Skill Development; Preadolescents; Physical Disabilities; Program Effectiveness; Scores; Simulation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Caregiver; Carer; Betreuungsperson; Pfleger; Ausbildung; Eltern; Parents education; Elternbildung; Elternschule; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Physical handicap; Körperbehinderung; Simulation program; Simulationsprogramm
Abstract	We tested the hypothesis that training a parent in wheelchair-user and caregiver wheelchair skills would improve the child's wheelchair skills. We studied an 11-year-old girl with spina bifida and her mother. The mother received 4 training sessions averaging 42.5 minutes per session, over a period of 3 weeks. The total pre-training and, 4 weeks after completion of the parent-training sessions, post-training performance Wheelchair Skills Test (WST 4.1) scores for the child were 66% and 69%, for the mother as a simulated wheelchair user were 69% and 84% and for the mother as a caregiver were 93% and 100%. Both the mother and the child perceived the training to be beneficial. This case study suggests the potential for parent training to benefit their children's wheelchair skills abilities. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10