Rehabilitation engineering
Using the latest technology to improve students’ quality of life
Rehabilitation engineering, or rehab as it’s also known, can improve the quality of a student’s life considerably. Rehab basically works by applying technology to a challenge a student may face, whether that’s related to computing, communications, wheelchair mobility, seating, or sport and leisure.
Solutions can be high or low-tech, and can include, for example: 
• providing a bespoke head rest for a wheelchair seat
• adapting a keyboard and joystick for a computer
• sourcing specialist software
• adapting a spoon so a student can eat independently
• modifying a shower chair for personal care
• mounting a student's communication aid onto their wheelchair
• adding special switches to control a wheelchair.
With a team of eight rehab engineers, working both in the School and College, we’re fortunate to have access to the kind of rehab facilities and skills usually only found in large specialist hospitals.
Our team devises, sources, adapts or manufactures solutions to improve students’ mobility, and help them take part in daily activities.