Wheelchair Skills Program

The following full paper will be available open access on October 8, 2025 at the doi address below: Relationships between wheelchair provision time for hospital inpatients and their lengths of stay and costs of hospitalization: a cohort study. Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 2025 May 6:S000:1-9. https://Doi:10.1016/j.apmr.2025.04.019.

Here's a nice new resource that includes material relevant to the WSP:

Seating and Wheeled Mobility: A Clinical Resource Guide Fully updated and expanded in its second edition, Seating and Wheeled Mobility: A Clinical Resource Guide presents clinical assessment considerations when working with a person with a mobility disability. The book provides a wide spectrum of information, from foundational information for those pra...

The article "Wheelchair skills training for caregivers of manual wheelchair users: a randomized controlled trial comparing self-study and remote training", published in Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, Volume 19 Issue 8, is now available at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17483107.2024.2321272.

The French-Canadian Subcommittee has just uploaded version 5.4.2 of the WSP Manual and forms in French to the WSP website (https://wheelchairskillsprogram.ca/fr/). Congratulations!

The latest version of the Wheelchair Skills Program Manual (Version 5.4.2) and the related Forms have now been posted on our website (https://wheelchairskillsprogram.ca/en/skills-manual-forms/). The previous versions have been moved to the Archives section. Comments and suggestions would be welcomed anytime.