Registrations are open for “Wheelchair Seating and Positioning: Practical Applications” Workshop! Jun 4–5 in Burnaby

“Wheelchair Seating and Positioning: Practical Applications” Workshop, Jun 4–5, Burnaby

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Access Community Therapists Presents

Wheelchair Seating and Positioning: Practical Applications

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About the Workshop

  • Jun 4 & 5, 2026 · Thu & Fri

  • Thu, Jun 4 · 8:00 am–5:00 pm

  • Fri, Jun 5 · 8:00 am–4:30 pm

  • Post-workshop social on Friday
    Jun 5 · 4:30–6:30 pm at the venue

Macdonald’s Home Health Care
210-3625 Brighton Ave,
Burnaby, BC V5A 3H5

This hands-on intensive two-day workshop, led by Access Community Therapists’ Lindsay Alford, BSc, OT and Danelle Rae, MOT, is designed for occupational therapists and physiotherapists with beginner to immediate seating skills who work with adolescents and adult clients in any setting.

The workshop follows the seating process from assessment through to completion of a wheelchair seating system for an actual client participant with vendor involvement.

After completion, attendees will understand the principles of seating and the roles of the client, therapist, and vendor/technician, be able to perform a complete seating assessment including the supine MAT assessment and sitting simulation, identify targeted outcomes of seating and product parameters for equipment trials, and follow-up on targeted outcomes to determine success of the seating intervention.

Hosted By:

Presented By:

Lindsay Alford, OT

Danielle Rae

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What’s Included

  • Light breakfast, lunch, and refreshments
  • Electronic copies of slides & reference list

Meet Your Presenters

  • Lindsay Alford, A woman with curly brown hair and fair skin smiles confidently. She is wearing a light brown top and two necklaces, one with a gold pendant. The background is plain and light-coloured.

    Lindsay Alford, OT

  • Danielle Rae, A woman with wavy brown hair wearing a dark blouse smiles at the camera against a light, neutral background.

    Danielle Rae

Testimonials

Excellent course! It has helped me be more confident about wheelchair/seating/mat assessments and wheelchair prescription. Excellent resources. Thank you to clients who come in to be assessed, thank you to Lindsay and Danielle, and thank you to the fantastic and knowledgeable vendor representatives and supporting staff! – Burnaby 2024

Great course! Lots of hands on practice and amazing instructors. Would recommend to any OT wanting to get more comfortable with seating. – Burnaby 2024

Thank you so much. You were both wonderful and such excellent teachers. I can’t wait to put my knew knowledge and skills into practice! – Burnaby 2023

I have never taken a continuing education course with real clients, that blew me away, I was so happy and I felt like it made a massive difference.  - Nov 2022

This was a really well done workshop, I appreciated the high level of expertise that both instructors brought – Prince George 2022

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