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	Wheelchair Skills Training Program	Quebec User Evaluation of Satisfaction with Assistive Technology
Field	Disability Studies	Disability Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Latent structure
Year of origin	2004	2002
Originator	R. Lee Kirby and colleagues (Dalhousie University)	Louise Demers, Rhoda Weiss-Lambrou & Bernadette Ska
Type	Structured skills-training intervention protocol	Assistive-technology user-satisfaction measurement instrument
Seminal source	MacPhee, A. H., Kirby, R. L., Coolen, A. L., Smith, C., MacLeod, D. A., & Dupuis, D. J. (2004). Wheelchair skills training program: a randomized clinical trial of wheelchair users undergoing initial rehabilitation. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 85(1), 41-50.	Demers, L., Weiss-Lambrou, R., & Ska, B. (2002). The Quebec User Evaluation of Satisfaction with Assistive Technology (QUEST 2.0): An overview and recent progress. Technology and Disability, 14(3), 101-105.
Aliases	WSTP, Wheelchair Skills Training Program, Wheelchair Skills Program training protocol	QUEST 2.0, QUEST, Quebec User Evaluation of Satisfaction with assistive Technology, Assistive Technology Satisfaction Measure
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Summary	The Wheelchair Skills Training Program (WSTP) is a structured, evidence-based intervention that teaches wheelchair users the individual skills needed for safe, independent mobility, from basic maneuvers to advanced ones such as curb negotiation and wheelies. Developed by R. Lee Kirby and colleagues at Dalhousie University as the training companion to the Wheelchair Skills Test, the WSTP applies motor-learning principles — goal setting, structured practice, feedback, and progression — and was shown in randomized controlled trials (MacPhee et al. 2004; Best et al. 2005) to produce clinically significant, safe gains in wheelchair-skill capacity. It pairs assessment and training in a single closed loop: test, train the deficits, retest.	The Quebec User Evaluation of Satisfaction with Assistive Technology (QUEST 2.0) is a standardized outcome measure that quantifies how satisfied a user is with an assistive device and with the services surrounding it. Developed by Louise Demers, Rhoda Weiss-Lambrou and Bernadette Ska, the refined 2.0 version comprises twelve items split into a device subscale (eight items, such as comfort, safety, and ease of use) and a services subscale (four items, such as service delivery and follow-up), each rated on a five-point satisfaction scale. Distinctively, QUEST also asks users to identify the three items most important to them, anchoring satisfaction in what the user actually values rather than treating all features as equal.