Instructor for Blind and Visually Impaired - Rehabilitation Teaching
Ontario College Graduate Certificate (133)Brantford Campus, One year
Start date: September
Highlights
- Learn to teach children and adults with visual disabilities to develop or enhance their independent living, communication, leisure, and basic orientation and mobility skills
- Develop techniques to create personal learning plans and individualized programs to build skills and confidence in the outlined skill areas with clients
- Develop specific techniques to identify the particular needs and interests of individual clients
- Experience practical learning under blindfold or low visual simulation
- Participate in a supervised, fourteen-week comprehensive (full-time) clinical fieldwork placement
- The only full-time, English-speaking program of its kind in Canada
Career Opportunities
Industries of Employment:
- Social Service Agencies
- School Boards
- Residential Rehabilitation Facilities
- Insurance Companies
Occupational Categories:
- Instructors and Teachers of Persons with Disabilities
- Certified Vision Rehabilitation Therapists
- Rehabilitation Teachers
- Braillists/Educational Assistants
Admission Requirements
- A college diploma or university degree, preferably in (but not restricted to) the Humanities, Arts or Education
- Previous related work or volunteer experience is strongly recommended
Note: Students who do not have access to a car or personal transportation may have limited field placement opportunities.
Note: Registered students who have been convicted of an offence under the criminal code for which they have not been pardoned may be denied the opportunity to enter clinical placement. A certificate of "Police Clearance" and document entailing vulnerable sector screening and a criminal records check will be requested by the field placement agency.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Review this program's learning outcomes
Program of Studies - for students starting Fall 2010
Click on the course title for the course description.
| Semester 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Course # | Course Title | Hrs/Week | |
| COMM | 10166 | Contracted Braille | 5.00 |
| COMM | VI230 | Communications | 2.71 |
| HMNS | VI103 | Assessment & Program Plan | 2.00 |
| HMNS | VI104 | Basic Orientation & Mobility
Skills | 6.00 |
| HMNS | VI111 | The Eye & Low Vision | 2.50 |
| HMNS | VI235 | Independent Living Skills | 7.00 |
| WORK | VI109 | Fieldwork Visits I | 4.00 |
| Semester 2 | |||
| Course # | Course Title | Hrs/Week | |
| COMM | 10167 | Advanced Contracted Braille | 4.00 |
| COUN | VI233 | Leisure Counselling & Act | 2.00 |
| HLTH | VI236 | Growth & Development | 4.50 |
| HMNS | VI102 | Habilitation & Rehabilitation | 2.00 |
| HMNS | VI201 | Adaptive Techniques | 4.00 |
| HMNS | VI220 | Problem Based Learning II | 2.50 |
| SENS | VI101 | Sensory Development | 1.50 |
| WORK | VI219 | Fieldwork Visits II (Rehab) | 8.00 |
| WORK | VI330 | Rehabilitation Practicum | 35.00 |
