Freedom Wheelchair Skills teaches essential everyday wheelchair skills. These skills can help you become more confident and independent in your wheelchair.
I will support you in learning skills that can be easily transferred into everyday living, whether within the home or outside. For some people, using a wheelchair around the home can feel like a real challenge. Building up the confidence to go outside, even within the local area, can feel scary. Being in a public space with worries about people’s perceptions of disability can create significant anxiety. Going out into an area that can seem unfriendly and scary can stop you from fulfilling your potential.
Essential everyday wheelchair skills sessions with Freedom Wheelchair Skills can take place within your home. Or local area. Helping you learn skills and develop the confidence to go about your daily life and activities with ease. Training on how to negotiate your home environment more easily. Using a good pushing technique, opening and closing doors, reaching and carrying items safely, space awareness, turning and managing tight spaces. Freedom Wheelchair Skills can also accompany you around your local area to apply such skills out and about. Teaching you how to overcome the challenges you might face.
You can read more about my battles and pleasures of going out and about in my blog posts.