Posture, Seating and Wheelchair Mobility Across the Life Course -Postgraduate Certificate

During the certificate students will:

• Discuss professional issues relating to the provision of wheelchair and seating services in differing contexts.
• Critically examine, compare and contrast the different needs of patients/clients, service providers and models of service.

The course is taught via blended learning, with on-line and on-campus options, and will provide students with the opportunity to be proactive, reflective and responsible when addressing the complex issues that affect wheelchair and seating provision systems. Through lectures, practicals, tutorials and discussion forums, students will be provided with an opportunity to broaden their perspectives by creatively and collaboratively advancing their knowledge, skills and social attitudes.

On successful completion of this programme, students will be able to:

• Adopt an evidence-based approach to assessing and managing wheelchair and seating provision for different client groups.
• Acquire an advanced level of skill, knowledge and clinical reasoning to improve interventions with people with postural seating and wheelchair mobility needs, and to enhance service provision practices.
• Discuss professional issues relating to the provision of wheelchair and seating services in different contexts.
• Critically examine, compare and contrast the different needs of patients/clients, service providers and models of service.
• Integrate research knowledge and practical solutions with their own professional expertise and client preferences across the life course to establish the means of providing cost-effective high-quality services to this specialist area.
• Acquire advanced levels of clinical reasoning and clinical thinking skills in this field of study.
• Develop advanced level assessment and identification of service need in their area of clinical practice.