Introduction: Set of skills that allows a child to drive an active wheelchair, influences on his capability of independent mobility, which can also enhance cognitive and psychosocial development. The role of occupational therapist is to present and teach the effective use of an active wheelchair through interesting and playful approach. Programs for learning how to drive a wheelchair are rarely adapted for pediatric population. Purpose: We wanted to design a set of activities to enhance wheelchair driving skills and demonstrate it through a study case of a five year old girl. We were interested in changes with girl's perception of performance and satisfaction after we used our set of activities. Methods: Our research was conducted in a form of a singular study case. A 5 year-old girl, that recieved her first active wheelchair a month ago, was included in a two-week intervention. In the evalution phase we conducted an Assessment of wheelchair skills for children, which showed us the skills the girl had the most problems with. In the process of occupational therapy we used specially designed set of activites in order to improve girl's performance of skills. For gathering information about the girl and keeping track of the progress we used COPM, Goal assessment scale (GAS), Activity analysis, Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI). Inthe evaluation phase we measured girl's grip strength with a dynamometer. Results: After the intervention we repeated the Assesment of wheelchair skills for children, which has shown an 11 % progress. She achieved higher results in all of the chosen items included in set of activites. COPM showed an increase of 3,7 in performance and 3,3 in satisfatciton. We kept track of improvement and shown it with the Goal assessment scale. The girl has improved from level -2 to level +2 in the first activity and from level -2 to level +1 in the second activity that we measured. Discussion and conclusion: Results have shown positive impact of using our set of activities. Girl's performance and satisfaction with wheelchair skills after the intervention were higher than before. Our set of activities proved itself as an efficient method of learning a child how to drive a wheelchair.
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