Not your parent's wheelchair.
A pediatric wheelchair is indeed a smaller seating system mounted over a mobility base that helps a child get from point A to point B. The important thing to recognize is that the child is every day learning new things about how he or she fits in with the world. That child is making friends and exploring the playground and going to music or art class. He or she may be starting and ending the day with a parent, but midday is spent interacting with the school's bus driver, teachers, counselor, and therapists. It is the responsibility of the rehab specialist to make sure that, while using a wheelchair to get from point A to point B in all of these different settings and with all of these different people, that disability does not slow the child down.
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Deborah I
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Kadlec Medical Center, Richland, Wash, USA.
D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014910:Wheelchairs