The Wheelchair Skills Program (WSP) is a training and testing program that includes the Wheelchair Skills Test (WST), the questionnaire version of the WST (WST-Q), and the Wheelchair Skills Training Program (WSTP). The WSP version 3.2 allows one to evaluate 57 representative manual wheelchair skills objectively, simply and inexpensively. The aim of this topic review is to describe the WSP and to realize its clinical and research potential through dissemination. Good measurement properties of the WST and the WST-Q, and the clinical efficacy of the WSTP in various contexts had been demonstrated. Experiences with the French-Canadian, Indian and Bosnian populations are also supportive in terms of the translation process of the WSP and its cultural adaptation. In North America, the WSP is increasingly being used in rehabilitation institutes and research centres. The WSP is a “low tech, high impact” program that appears to have promise for implementation in European countries.