In the case of the Orientation and Mobility for Working-Age Adults and the Rehabilitation Teaching Program, the department administers a federal grant that provides tuition assistance and a stipend to help support eligible students during their studies. Upon graduation, these students are required to seek employment in these fields. The department also offers various scholarships to qualified students in the blind rehabilitation programs. Stipend and tuition assistance may be available through a federal grant to eligible candidates in the on-campus modality of the Teaching Children with Visual Impairments and Teaching Orientation and Mobility Program. Tuition and stipend assistance is readily available for the Rehabilitation Counseling and Teaching Program.
Many students receive full resident tuition funding as well as a stipend each semester.
Distance education students are eligible for tuition assistance. Information about other sources of financial aid may be located in web pages at the university, health and human services college, and graduate college levels. The academic leader in the field of blind rehabilitation, the department has been responsible for many of the innovations that have occurred in the education of practitioners over the years. It has led the way in low vision amelioration, electronic travel aids, gerontology, multiple disabilities, adaptive technology, and computer technology. Its faculty routinely engage in clinical applied research.