Gye Di is so excited to host our first Powered Mobility Workshop! Every human has the innate desire to MOVE! Our kids with complex physical bodies, who have never had the chance to move before deserve the chance and opportunity to independently move themselves!

A 2 day workshop designed to expand your skills and confidence in supporting pediatric powered mobility users. Learn all about seating and positioning strategies for optimal comfort and function. You will learn and experience hands on alternative access methods to meet diverse needs. There will be hands on experience with power wheelchair and best practices for supporting learners who have moved before. There will be opportunities to connect directly with industry representatives from all local industries to build your support team to be able to implement a powered mobility program within your independent setting, and become part of a supportive community helping kids achieve the incredible milestone of mobility.

OBJECTIVES:

1. Able to identify what the characteristics are for kids with complex physical presentations.

2. Seating for function/movement

3. Alternative drive controls, what options there are

4. Alternative drive controls driving parameters and impacts on navigation and independence

5. What are the components of a power base: base components, wheel configuration, powered seating, electronics.

6. Developing awareness for teaching movement vs “driving”. Creating teaching activities for “movement experiences” for children in school and home

7. Understanding the difference between 3 quadrant vs 4 quadrant driving and the difference between proportional vs digital drive controls

8. Understands how our verbal cueing can have a negative or positive impact on a child’s ability to perform the complex task of movement within a power wheelchair.

9. Describe the developmental milestones that mobility can supports and what the impact is both physically, cognitively and academically when mobility is denied.

Identify what resources are available to support the implementation of power mobility in a clinical/school setting.

SCHEDULE:

Minutes	Topic
:30	Introductions, orientation to class,
1.5 hours	Lecture on alt drive controls and power wheelchair bases.
1.5 hours	Hands on to experience drive controls and powerchair bases.
:15 mins	break
1.0 hour	Lecture, videos, case studies
1 hour	Lunch
:45 mins	Hands-on Seating Lab
:30 mins	Discuss what they learned
:15 mins	Break
1.5 hours	Discussion of developmental milestones that come when mobility is introduced
:15 mins	Summary of Day, Questions
:15 min	Introduction to the day and what to expect
:45 min	Live Eval #1
:15 min	Break
1 hour	Debrief, what happened, questions application of strategies and cueing awareness
:45 mins	Case studies and audience engagement with problem solving
1 hour	LUNCH
:45 min	Live Eval #2
1 hour	Debrief, what happened, questions application of strategies and cueing awareness
:15 min	Break
:45 mins	Case studies and audience engagement with problem solving
1 hour	How to get started with power, who are the resources, where are the resources in your area?
:15 mins	CEU explanation, questions, wrap up

(Lunch will not be provided, however there are many lunch options within 5 minutes of the clinic such as; Fry's Marketplace, Pieology, Caldwell BBQ, Ike's Sandwich's, Starbucks, etc!)

Powered Mobility Workshop 2026

Join us for a 2-day continuing ed. workshop designed to expand your skills and confidence in supporting powered mobility users!