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Vocational Rehabilitation Service Models for Consumers who are Deaf-Blind is a Course

Vocational Rehabilitation Service Models for Consumers who are Deaf-Blind

Started Dec 16, 2019
1 credit

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This course involves reading a journal article about a study that investigated service models used by vocational rehabilitation agencies when providing services to a consumer with deaf-blindness and the effectiveness of those models. Two service models (deaf-blind specialist and professional collaboration) were found to be particularly effective. (1-hour)

This course is available for CRC, ACVREP, and NBPCB credit.

Course Objective:

  1. Learn about the two service models (deaf-blind specialist and professional collaboration) that were found to be particularly effective. 

The following are supported screen reader and browser combinations for this course: Macintosh: VoiceOver (latest version for Safari) PC: JAWS and NVDA (latest version for Firefox) The course shows a start date, but that is simply the date the course was made available to the public. They are self-paced. So, there is not an end date. You can enroll at any time. This course was developed by the National Research & Training Center on Blindness & Low Vision (NRTC) at Mississippi State University. We are the only national center funded to conduct research related to employment for people with blindness or low vision, and training and technical assistance for the federal Older Individuals who are Blind program. As a national center of excellence, we offer resources on a variety of topics for service providers, businesses, and persons with vision loss on our websites:

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