Wheelchair Skills Training
Our Wheelchair Skills Training (for ages 2-25) will help you navigate the world with confidence, safety and even a little style.
How Whizz Kidz’s wheelchair training lets you push things forward
Our Wheelchair Skills Training (for ages 2-25) will help you navigate the world with confidence, safety and even a little style because getting the right chair is only the start. The skills you learn in a safe and supportive environment on our training programme will make your world open up and more accessible so you can enjoy an independent and active life. Here’s why our Wheelchair Skills Training works:
- It helps you feel more in control of your wheelchair and not reliant on others.
- You learn cool new skills that you can use in your everyday life.
- Our scheme gives you a safe place to practice using your wheelchair in.
- You’ll have more freedom to get around, meet people and make friends.
- Our experts will be there to support you all the way.
- We aim to build your confidence when using your wheelchair and teach you some tricks too.
Teaching wheelchair skills in schools
Whizz Kidz can deliver Wheelchair Skills Training in schools and other educational settings. From essential skills training for new wheelchair users to advanced techniques, young people can learn in a safe, supportive environment.
Train the Trainer in wheelchair skills
Teachers, NHS colleagues and other professionals can learn how to deliver wheelchair skills in their work environment with our Train the Trainer scheme. Delivered face-to-face or online, it’s a great way to support young people you work with.
How we work with parents and carers
It’s essential that you encourage the young people you care for to continue practising their wheelchair skills outside of their sessions with Whizz Kidz. We can offer parents and carers advice, support and tips to keep training going at home.
Accredited Training
It is important to us at Whizz Kidz that our young people, their families and support staff receive the highest standard of input from our services team. For this reason we have chosen to have our Wheelchair Skills Training programmes accredited by The Skills and Education Group. This guarantees that:
- Our trainers are experienced, knowledgeable and well-prepared for your sessions (wherever possible we employ trainers with lived experience as a wheelchair user)
- The content of our Wheelchair Skills Training programme has been assessed and deemed to be good quality
- The training programmes we offer are unique to Whizz Kidz
We have developed a series of awards for wheelchair skills which recognise young people’s learning and development on the course. The scheme is divided into different programmes so learners can choose what works for them and receive certificates to celebrate their achievements!
Modules we offer include Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced training for manual and powered wheelchair users and Travel Training. We also offer Train the Trainer courses for adults supporting young wheelchair users, to enable them to better understand and advise their clients/students.
Our trainers will work with you in school or a community setting and will support you to progress through the different skills needed to gain your award. There is no time limit for this. It might take you one session or ten! We’ll keep track of your developments along the way and look forward to celebrating your achievements with you.
If you are interested in our accredited Wheelchair Skills Training courses, get in touch!
Our Videos
Wheelchair Skills Videos
Practise your Wheelchair Skills Training with the help of these videos for both manual and powered wheelchair users. We will show you how to move forwards and backwards, carry a drink, judge a kerb, open doors easily and much more
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Wheelchair Maintenance Videos
We all love our wheelchairs, so it’s vital that we look after them properly. To help you keep your wheelchair maintained, we have a series of videos that will show you easy ways to keep them working smoothly.
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