Description

Mission

The mission of the rehabilitation counseling program is to promote high-quality rehabilitation services to individuals with disabilities through the education of rehabilitation professionals; to provide service to rehabilitation agencies, facilities, and associations; and to implement and use research related to rehabilitation. Graduates will have the knowledge, skills and experience necessary to successfully practice as rehabilitation counselors.

The objectives of the rehabilitation counseling program are:

To provide a comprehensive curriculum that prepares students for a career in rehabilitation counseling;

To provide high-quality services to individuals with disabilities;

To strengthen values, skills and knowledge of students that result in a genuine commitment to human rights, professionalism, personal integrity and ethical practice; and

To nurture an approach to professional practice and rehabilitation research that is characterized by inquiry, critical thinking, flexibility and self-confidence.

Our distance learning graduate program in Rehabilitation Counseling is administered through the Consortium for Distance Education in Rehabilitation (CDER). Three universities, San Diego State University, Georgia State University, and the University of North Texas make up the consortium.

CDER began as a federally funded grant program by the Rehabilitation Services Administration in 1999. The following year, CDER enrolled 35 students. Since that time, our enrollment has expanded to 105 students at UNT with another 200 at SDSU. UNT has graduated 162 students.

Convenient and portable, distance learning makes use of a wide range of technologies to promote an interactive, rigorous learning environment in which the student is an active participant in a "virtual" classroom. To make it easier for students to orient to a distance learning environment, we have developed a CDER Graduate Student Handbook. The handbook contains information on the structure of the program, the cohort system, equipment requirements, application and admissions procedures, and much, much more.

Additionally, the Consortium for Distance Education in Rehabilitation at UNT has it's own website which contains the most accurate and up-to-date information on the program.