Students conduct programs for persons with disabilities in the Radford community. By this time in your academic career, you understand the importance of programming and leadership. Therefore, the key concept of this class is therapeutic recreation programming. In addition, you should understand the impact of agency limitations and advantages, and the rights and responsibilities of people with disabilities. This class will be conducted like a team meeting.
Class meetings are three hours long.
This is a long time and will require some planning on your part and mine. Although long, this format allows us to do things we could not do in a 50-minute class period such as practice leading and analyzing activities and providing programs for clients. Many of your professional meetings will be once a week so this format is helpful in getting used to this system. I will do several things to make the format as productive as possible including varying the activities, providing a break about through, communicating with you by email mid-week, and use class monitors. You need to prepare by realizing that you will have to treat this class differently than a two or three times a week class.