The Department of Graduate Studies in Visual Impairment offers a Certificate Program and a Master of Science Program in Low Vision Rehabilitation. These Programs prepare professionals in rehabilitation, eye care, education, and other related fields to work more effectively with people who have low vision.
Emphasis is placed on an interdisciplinary team approach to service delivery.
Program participants represent disciplines such as rehabilitation counseling, rehabilitation teaching, special education, orientation and mobility, occupational, social work, optometry and ophthalmology. Career Opportunities Program graduates work in low vision clinics, rehabilitation centers and agencies, schools and other special education settings. As specialists in low vision, graduates provide consulting or coordinating services to people with low vision and inservice training to other professionals. Some choose to become researchers specializing in low vision. The Certificate Program requires twenty-one quarter credit hours of coursework.