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Webinar Recordings: Empowering Young Lives: Improving Paediatric Wheelchair Provision
Cost per recording: $15 (15% discount for ISWP members)
Summary
Aligned with the ISWP’s mission to ensure that all wheelchair users receive appropriate services provided by trained personnel, this three-part webinar series focuses on paediatric wheelchair provision. Children who require wheelchairs face distinct clinical and developmental challenges. Ensuring early and appropriate intervention improves not only mobility but overall health, participation, and quality of life.
This webinar series supports ISWP’s goals by promoting awareness, sharing best practices, and strengthening professional competencies in paediatric wheelchair provision.
Webinar Recording 1: Early Positioning – Supporting Healthy Development (Tamara Kittelson)
Tamara Kittelson
Tamara Kittelson is an Occupational Therapist, RESNA certified ATP/SMS and ISWP certified intermediate wheelchair provider. She founded Posture 24-7 and Eleanore’s Project, promoting 24-hour posture care management and appropriate seating and wheeled mobility provision in low resource settings, and has presented and written on these topics nationally and internationally.
She is a Friend of iNRRTS, founding chair of the RESNA 24-7 Posture Care Management special interest group, and a member of AOTA, RESNA, and currently Executive Director of the Clinician Task Force in the United States. She served children and adults with complex neurodisabilities in Montana, 1983-2022, before moving back to Minneapolis, Minnesota where she grew up. Tamara credits her daughter Eleanore, born with cerebral palsy and profound deafness, as her best teacher.
About this recording
- Importance of early intervention
- Strategies for postural support in young children
- Impact on growth, participation, and health
Webinar Recording 2: Fitting and Training – Getting It Right from the Start (Justin Boulos)
Justin Boulos
Justin Boulos is an Occupational Therapist with over a decade of experience in the world of Complex Seating and Mobility solutions for wheelchair users. Justin has become a trusted name in the field and his professional journey spans diverse disability populations.
Justin is on a mission to make complex seating simple. You can find him sharing valuable insights and expertise on his social media platforms under the name, WheelieWorx. Here, he breaks down barriers by offering easily digestible information to all those dedicated to the disability sector. His goal is to make education for clinicians not just educational but also entertaining – ‘edutainment’.
He’s an adventure-seeking, fence-hopping, nature-loving individual. If you see him around, don’t hesitate to ask for a hug and a friendly ‘hello.’
About this recording
- Assessment and individualized fitting
- User-centered training techniques
- Engagement with families and care givers
Webinar Recording 3: Mobility Options – Beyond the Basics (Silvana Contepomi)
Silvana Contepomi
Physical therapist with 40 years experienced in Neurorehabilitation. AT Consultant and educator in Seating & Mobility and Postural Care management. Senior Trainer of WHO WSTP (B- I) in Latin America in less resourced settings. Director of @Asistiva. President of the Argentinian Assistive Technology Association (AATA) and founding members of GAATO (www.gaato.com). Board member of ISWP (www.iswp.org). Member of Technical advisory group (TAG) for WHO.
My passion is to facilitate Wheelchair Services, through advocacy and education, for users accessing to the appropriate technology for posture and mobility for a better life of the person and their families.
About this recording
- Power v Manual chairs
- Exploring diverse mobility solutions for children
- Adaptive technologies and innovations
- Facilitating independence at different developmental stages
