The purpose of this blog is to highlight what is mostly unknown in the general population – my profession: Orientation and Mobility. I administer distance learning programs at Hunter College that prepare teachers of learners who are blind or visually impaired in vision rehabilitation therapy and orientation and mobility. Hunter’s graduates work in schools and vision rehabilitation agencies teaching travel skills and daily living skills needed by children and adults who are congenitally or adventitiously visually impaired.
Two things you should know – if you are looking for a new career – there are many, many jobs available in every state in the US and country of the world in vision rehabilitation therapy and orientation and mobility. The second thing you should know is that, like Hunter College, most university programs in the US have obtained federal grants that pay students to learn these professions.
Hunter’s program is a distance learning program. We have students from all over the US. The reason is there are only 6 regions (14 states) offer university preparation programs in O&M and only 4 regions offer university preparation programs in rehabilitation teaching (6 states) states (Silberman, Ambrose-Zaken, Trief & Corn, 2004).
Hunter provides full tuition and a small monthly stipend to qualified students. Apply today to join the Fall 2010 cohort.
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