Powered Mobility Lending Program for Children

The purpose of this project is to lend children a power wheelchair while they are waiting for government permission to buy one.
The service includes evaluation of the child’s motor and cognitive abilities, training and practice sessions (“driving lessons”) as needed and deciding on a lending program.
Possible decisions are:

• Training and practice sessions by community therapists (physiotherapist or occupational therapist) or the parents - after the coach has been trained by ALYN staff.
• Practice sessions in the child’s educational framework - after the coach has been trained by ALYN staff. 
• Practice sessions in ALYN, with an ALYN occupational therapist – with the agreement and payment of the client’s health fund (Kupat Cholim).
• The child is unsuitable for the project.

Terms of participation:

• Written proof, after a professional’s home visit and the proper forms, that the client’s home is power wheelchair accessible.
• Written proof, after a professional’s home visit and the proper forms, that the client’s educational framework is power wheelchair accessible.
• The chair is loaned for personal use of one child, not several children in an educational framework.
• Evaluation of the child in ALYN (payment by the child’s health fund).
• A deposit check for the sum of ₪ 3500. (The check will not be cashed).
• Signing a written loan agreement.

Length of loan is limited – monthly telephone follow up will be done during the loan period.