There are some unique considerations when prescribing for paediatric users. This can extend beyond the child including families, teachers, peers and other therapists. This course will explore manual and power wheelchair considerations, practical tips for paediatric wheelchair skills, including keeping up with their friends and being a kid. We will also touch on the value of providing independent mobility to young children to maximise their participation, opportunities for independence, and most importantly – play!

Objectives:

Understand considerations when providing age appropriate mobility equipment
Explain at least three unique prescription considerations for paediatric users
Describe strategies to facilitate powered mobility use in relation to a child’s learning stage

Why not make a day of it? We’re also running an afternoon workshop, "Functional Independent Powered Mobility for Complex Outcomes – Alternative control considerations". If you’re attending the morning session, consider staying on to join us in the afternoon.

Lunch is on us!
If you decide to attend both workshops, we’ll be serving lunch between sessions. It’s a great chance to relax, network with fellow attendees, and recharge for the second half of the day. For those attending only the morning session, we’d love for you to stay and join us for lunch. It’s a great opportunity to connect with others, chat about the morning session, and enjoy a delicious meal before heading off.

Meet the Presenter: Tracee-Lee Maginnity (Permobil)

Tracee-Lee Maginnity joined Permobil Australia in July 2019, as a clinical education specialist. Originally from New Zealand, she graduated Auckland University of Technology with a BHSc (Occupational Therapy) in 2003 and has since worked in various roles related to seating and mobility including assessing, prescribing and educating. After gaining experience as an assessor and prescriber at Seating To Go / Wheelchair Solutions in prescribing for both disability and injury, she moved to Australia in 2011 to take on the Senior Occupational Therapist role in a custom moulded seating service. She then worked in clinical consulting and education roles until joining Permobil.

Tracee-Lee is passionate about maximising functional outcomes with end users and the importance of education within the industry. She has mentored many therapists interested in AT. Her experience includes working with complex postures to achieve custom outcomes. Tracee-Lee is also an international wheelchair rugby classifier where she enjoys the task analysis of wheelchair propulsion and functional capacity identification of athletes.

Contact the host of Let Kids be Kids: Empowering Children through Mobility (Sydney)