Rehabilitation Counseling and Teaching Curriculum
Preparation includes the acquisition of specific skills in rehabilitation counseling, with a specialization in blindness or low vision.
Unique educational opportunities include:
- An innovative two-week immersion in blindness experiential course
- A state-of-the-art vision rehabilitation clinic, providing training and work with low vision aids
- Supervised practicum placements in the WMU Center for Counseling and Psychological Services
- A state-of-the-art adaptive computer laboratory that is used to teach methods of computing to people with blindness or low vision and other disabilities
- A practicum experience in a mini adjustment program through the Michigan Commission for the Blind.
- Availability of practicum and internship experiences at various agencies throughout the country
Rehabilitation Counseling/Teaching Program (RCTM) Curriculum Requirements
Core courses (32 cr.)
- BLS 5770: Services for Persons Who are Blind or Have Other Disabilities (2 cr.)
- BLS 5840: Computer Technology in Rehabilitation (3 cr.)
- BLS 5880: Psychosocial Aspects of Disability (2cr.)
- BLS 5890: Medical and Functional Aspects of Disability (2 cr.)
- BLS 6010: Small 'N' Research: Design & Analysis (3 cr.)
- BLS 6100: Assisted Research (2 cr.)
- CECP 6020: Group Dynamics and Procedures (3 cr.)
- CECP 6030: Tests and Measurement (3 cr.)
- CECP 6040: Counseling Techniques (3 cr.)
- CECP 6050: Professional Issues and Ethics (3 cr.)
- CECP 6070: Multicultural Counseling and Psychology (3 cr.)
- CECP 6080: Counseling Across the Life Span (3 cr.)
Concentration courses (44 cr.)
- BLS 5860: Job Development and Placement (3 cr.)
- BLS 5900: Physiology and Function of the Eye (2 cr.)
- BLS 5910: Braille and Tactual Communication Systems (2 cr.)
- BLS 5930: Methods of Teaching Adaptive Communications (2 cr.)
- BLS 5970: Principles & Practices of Low Vision (2 cr.)
- BLS 6020: Gerontology in O&M and RT (2 cr.)
- BLS 6050: Practice in Low Vision (1 cr.)
- BLS 6640: Principles of Rehabilitation Teaching (3 cr.)
- BLS 6910: Practicum in Rehabilitation Teaching (3 cr.)
- FCS 6360: Teaching for Independent Living (4 cr.)
- BLS 7120: Professional Field Experience (2 cr.)
- CECP 5200: Foundations of Rehabilitation Counseling (3 cr.)
- CECP 6100: Career Development: Theory and Practice (3 cr.)
- CECP 6110: Theories of Counseling (3 cr.)
- CECP 6120: Practicum in Rehabilitation Counseling (4 cr.)
- CECP 6130: Field Practicum (2 cr.)
- CECP 6220: Psychoeducational Consultation (3 cr.)
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Rehabilitation Counseling/Teaching curriculum guides are available from the BLS and CECP department offices. Application for the Master's of Arts degrees in Rehabilitation Counseling/Teaching are made through the Department of Blindness and Low Vision Studies.
Those seeking admission to the Rehabilitation Counseling/Teaching program should request application information from the Department of Blindness and Low Vision Studies. Admission is offered in both fall and summer I semesters.
