[visionrehabtherapist] Re: Current VRT University Programs Clarified
- From: "Julie Adkins" <jadkins@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <Maduffy@xxxxxxx>, <visionrehabtherapist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:35:36 -0400
Amen. We really need to know, in addition, which ones offer distance ed
programs, since that is a big selling point for adults who cannot leave home
to go to school.
Julie Adkins, MA, CVRT
Julie Adkins, MA, CVRT
Certified Vision Rehabilitation Therapist
Metrolina Association for the Blind
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Charlotte, NC 28204
704-887-5121
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Subject: [visionrehabtherapist] Current VRT University Programs Clarified
Thank you, everyone, for your help in clarifying the current universities
that offer VRT programs. As of October 1010, here is the current list:
Academy for Special Education, Warsaw, Poland
Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, New York
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Mohawk College, Brantford, Ontario, Canada
North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
Salus University, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas (No new
students accepted as of 2010)
University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts
University of Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
However, this is the listing of university programs that the VRT web site
has listed:
Hunter College CUNY
Massey University
Mohawk College, Brantford Campus
Northern Illinois University
Salus University (formerly Pennsylvania College of Optometry)
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Western Michigan University
I don't know about you all, but it disturbs me that AER, the primary
membership and advocacy organization, provides a truncated list and outdated
information for people who may be seeking new careers and/or looking to
become VRTs. Why is that?
Actually, I find the VRT web site, in general, to be distressingly outdated.
How outdated is it? Well, I can speak with certainty about this, because it
was Lisa Mowerson and I who developed the first VRT web site in
approximately 2000.
Most of the information on the current web site is what I wrote and entered
on it in 2000, when I was Chair of the VRT Division.
This is not good. How can we hope to recruit new practitioners in this era
of social networking and electronic communication if our web site hasn't
been substantially updated in 10 years? In addition, the university programs
we do list don't even have a web site connected with them. That is not
acceptable.
There is also information on the VRT web site that mentions this:
"Currently, the Academy is seeking and will decide on a new certification
pin." That information is quite old, and the new pin has long been designed.
Granted, I am biased toward web-based communication, due to my position as
Editorial Director of VisionAWARE, but I think we have to look squarely at
ourselves when we discuss the current "crisis" in personnel preparation. We
have to get our own house in order first, I believe.
It's not difficult to do, and many social networking tools are free. You
want to find new recruits? You have to be a presence on the web, with
current, updated, dynamic information.
That's all for now ...
Maureen
Maureen A. Duffy, CVRT
Editorial Director
AWARE (Associates for World Action in Rehabilitation & Education)
Phone: 914-528-5120
E-mail: maureen.duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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