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Positioning Chart
This reference lists common seating challenges, causes, strategies and goals. These goals can also be used as funding justifications for the recommended strategy.

Frequently Asked Questions: Restraints Recently Added!

Sometimes the wheelchair seating components designed to provide postural support are misconstrued as restraints. This brief handout addresses this issue.

 

Complex Rehab Power Wheelchair Electronics Comparison Chart

This chart compares features from three complex rehab electronics packages: Invacare MK6i, PG Drives Technology Rnet, and Quantum QLogic. This is intended as a reference, not to demonstrate one package as better than another. These exciting electronics offer features to help clients be more independent than ever!

 

Tracking Technologies Recently Added!

This document summarizes results of an informal study comparing power wheelchair driving efficiency with and without tracking technologies.

Indoor Power Mobility Criteria

This checklist can be used during an evaluation to demonstrate and document skills assessed and the results. If a client is not yet ready for a power wheelchair, this checklist indicates where mobility training is needed to develop needed skills.

 

Outdoor Power Mobility Criteria

Driving a power wheelchair outdoors requires additional skills. This checklist can be used to assess these skills.

 

Pre-mobility Training Guidelines

Are you working with someone who does not have a power wheelchair, but needs to develop driving skills? Here are some training guidelines to develop these skills.

 

Mobility Training Guidelines

Are you working with someone who recently received a power wheelchair? These training guidelines can be used to optimize driving skills.

 

Multifunction Electronic Aids to Daily Living Comparison Chart
This chart compares features of many Multifunction Electronic Aids to Daily Living. This technology allows people to use an alternative access method, such as a switch, to control a variety of devices within the environment including audiovisual equipment, door openers, telephones, hospital beds, lights and simple appliances.

 

Basic Electronic Aids to Daily Living Recently updated!
Basic EADLs provide direct, latched or timed on/off switch control of battery operated toy, simple electrical appliances or send a limited amount of infrared signals to a limited amount of devices. For control of more devices and features, please refer to the Multifunction EADLs chart.

 

Telephones, Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS) and Pagers

This chart compares product features of a variety of adaptive phones, including infrared phones and phones that can be accessed by switch or voice. Personal Emergency Response Systems are used to alert others outside the home of emergencies. Pagers are used to alert those within the home of needs.  

 

Adaptive Toys Handout

Having trouble thinking of gift ideas for a child with physical, sensory or cognitive impairments? Check out this handout for simple ideas!

 

Mounting Chart

Need to mount a speech generating device, laptop, tablet or even cell phone to a wheelchair? Here is a comparison chart with important features to keep in mind.

 

Computer Access Hierarchy

This Hierarchy moves through common computer access categories by physical, sensory and cognitive needs.

 

RESNA Position Papers

RESNA Position on the Application of Tilt, Recline Elevating Legrests for Wheelchairs

RESNA Position on the Application of Wheelchair Standing Devices

RESNA Position on the Application of Seat Elevating Devices for Wheelchair Users

RESNA Position on the Application of Power Wheelchairs for Pediatric Users

RESNA Position on Wheelchairs used as Seats in Motor Vehicles

RESNA Position on the Application of Ultralight Manual Wheelchairs

RESNA Position on the Application of Wheelchairs, Seating Systems and Secondary Supports for Positioning vs. Restraint

RESNA Position Paper on the Use of Evacuation Chairs

RESNA Wheelchair Service Provision Guide