Basic
and intermediate wheelchair training programs from LDS Charities (LDSC)
are being integrated into the curriculum of the College of
Rehabilitation Sciences of De La Salle University-Dasmarinas.
Fourth
year students of physical therapy (PT) and occupational therapy (OT)
will take the Basic Wheelchair course by February 2014.
Those same
students in their fifth year will take the Intermediate Wheelchair
course to address the complex needs of people suffering from cerebral
palsy and other forms of physical disabilities who would need supportive
chairs with braces and harnesses to keep them upright, safe and secure.
As
part of the training, students will assess, modify and customize the
wheelchairs donated by LDSC to properly fit the beneficiaries.
Ma.
Cecilia Licuan, Dean of the College of Rehabilitation Sciences, who was
instrumental in helping set up the program saw the need to give
students a head start in order to produce well equipped professionals to
serve the needs of people with disabilities (PWDs).
DLSU Dasmarinas and LDS Charities have been partners in many projects to include the following:
• Basic Wheelchair Training in 2011which certified 20 professors of the PT and OT departments.
• Intermediate Wheelchair Training in 2012 which certified 16 trainees who assessed beneficiaries for supportive wheelchairs.
• Advanced
Wheelchair Training held this year which certified four professors to
train others who were ready for advanced technical instruction.
LDS
Charities arranged for Dr. Jaime Noon, one of the authors of the World
Health Organization’s Wheelchair Trainer’s Manual, to teach the
advanced course. Alice Laverdiere, a clinical supervisor from the
United Cerebral Palsy Organization, also assisted in the month long
training for the teachers.
Week one required each teacher to
measure and modify a chair to fit the assigned client. Dean Cecile
Licuan, one of four teachers to take the advanced course, was assigned
to a client who was unable to sit. She was able to build a chair for
him where he could lay on an adjustable incline allowing him to see
people at eye level. Recalling the amazing experience, she said, “I
didn’t even know how to do what I needed to do so I just prayed to be
led to do it right.
This article was posted in MormonNewsroom.ph
http://www.mormonnewsroom.ph/article/basic-wheelchair-training-advances-to-the-university-level
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