[visionrehabtherapist] Re: Current VRT Website Outdated!
- From: Cammy Moraros <CMoraros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "melissa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <melissa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "brink-chaneym@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <brink-chaneym@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Maduffy@xxxxxxx" <Maduffy@xxxxxxx>, "visionrehabtherapist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <visionrehabtherapist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:21:42 -0400
Hi Melissa,
http://www.nercve.org/
http://www.aerbvi.org/modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=newindex&catid=7
Two resources that I know of, beyond searching individual states/agencies.
Cammy
Cammy Moraros, MEd, VRT, LSW
Vision Rehabilitation Therapist
Licensed Social Worker
The Iris Network
189 Park Avenue
Portland, ME 04102
(207)774-6273
1-800-715-0097
www.theiris.org
Cammy Moraros, MEd, VRT, LSW
Vision Rehabilitation Therapist
Licensed Social Worker
The Iris Network
189 Park Avenue
Portland, ME 04102
(207)774-6273
1-800-715-0097
www.theiris.org
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Subject: [visionrehabtherapist] Re: Current VRT Website Outdated!
Where are the best places to post & search for VRT positions? Melissa
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Brink-Chaney, Marcie (DELEG)
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 7:58 AM
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Subject: [visionrehabtherapist] Re: Current VRT Website Outdated!
That's terrible. Ten years is ridiculously outdated. What do we pay
membership dues for? Each university program should have a web link to the
school on the AER website and the website should be using face book and
twitter or other social networks. If you are my age, you may not use the
social network websites as extensively as younger people. However, young
people are up there all of the time. How can young people consider a career
in vision rehab therapy when they don't even know what it is or how to
prepare for it? We as a profession have to reach out and meet potential
therapists where they are, in high school career days and places where
people do career exploration which at the least, includes the internet. Do
people think that it is not necessary to explain who we are when
ophthalmologists, medical social workers and other professionals don't know
what a VRT is?
I'm getting off of my soap box. I only heard about our profession because I
went to Western Michigan University as an undergrad and the people in
special ed wanted to steer me somewhere else to teach. I had even had
contact in high school with RT's but really didn't register what they did
and realize that it was a unique profession. Someone should have been at
career days that were held at the state school for the blind every few years
to represent the profession.
Marcie Brink-Chaney CVRT
Michigan Commission for the Blind
Detroit Office
E-mail: brink-chaneym@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Phone: (313)456-1643
Fax: (313)456-1645
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Maduffy@xxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 6:28 PM
To: visionrehabtherapist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
Are you aware of our web site?
www.visionaware.org <http://www.visionaware.org/> "Self-Help for Vision
Loss"
www.twitter.com/visionaware
www.facebook.com/visionaware
www.visionaware.blogspot.com <http://www.visionaware.blogspot.com/>
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