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Rehabilitation Services
Welcome to the undergraduate Rehabilitation Services Training Program.
Rehabilitation services personnel assist persons with disabilities in achieving their greatest physical, mental, social, educational, and vocational potential. Since 1968, graduates of our program have been working with persons with disabilities in state rehabilitation agencies, rehabilitation facilities, independent living centers, and school districts across the State of Texas and elsewhere in the United States.
The Rehabilitation Services coursework includes 15 hours of core courses and 21 hours of additional rehabilitation courses, plus 12 semester hours from special education, rehabilitation, or speech-language pathology courses. A 6-hour practicum course gives students hands-on experience working with persons with disabilities. A summer internship provides a wonderful opportunity to work full-time in a rehabilitation agency or facility and apply the knowledge gained in the classroom.
If you would like more information on the undergraduate Rehabilitation Services Training Program, please contact me at bweber@titan.sfasu.edu or write to Dr. Bill Weber, Rehabilitation Services Training Program, P.O. Box 13019-SFA, Nacogdoches, TX 75962.
Clinical Practicum in Rehabilitation
All rehabilitation majors are required to take 6 semester hours of practicum in HSE 385 - Clinical Practicum in Rehabilitation. Twelve hours a week are spent in a practicum setting and 2 hours a week are spent in seminar. Practicum experiences are gained at local rehabilitation service agencies and programs in the Nacogdoches community.
Students have opportunities to work with people with disabilities at locations such as the Job Club at the Nacogdoches Treatment Center, Goodwill Industries, the Women's Shelter of East Texas, and the Burke Center's Cornerstone early intervention programs and psycho-social programs.
Undergraduate Rehabilitation Internship
The internship experience is an extremely valuable one for rehabilitation majors. It provides supervised practical work experience in rehabilitation services agencies in Texas and the Southwest Region. This learning situation allows the student to apply personal values, theory, and a philosophy of working with persons with disabilities. Internships take place at such agencies as Goodwill Industries, the Texas Rehabilitation Commission, the Transitional Living Center in Galveston, and the Texas Institute of Rehabilitation Research in Houston, as well as at facilities in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arkansas.