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  • 3.00 Credits

    This is a second level course that focuses on the use and study of American Sign Language (ASL). This course continues to increase ASL vocabulary and grammatical structures. In this course the student will also continue the exploration of the deaf culture including developing culturally appropriate relationships with individuals who are deaf. Prerequisite: HRS 228 (Spring) Staff/ Three Credits
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of the interview process. A strong emphasis will be placed on developing skills in applying and utilizing specific interviewing skills and techniques in human and rehabilitation service settings. Students will understand the impact of diversity, culture, and individual lifestyles on the helping process. The course will assist students to apply effective interpersonal skills in interviewing and communicating with persons with disabilities, their families, related professionals, and the general public. Client choice and consumer self-direction will be emphasized in interviewing and counseling situations. Students will be taught to incorporate cultural sensitivity into daily practice and interactions with clients. Ethical principles and decision making will be discussed and practiced. Prerequisites: HRS 119 (Fall) Staff/ Three Credits
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is designed to assist students in developing the necessary case management skills that are essential to the human and rehabilitation services fields. It will provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to facilitate client movement from initiation of services to case service termination. Students will be exposed to case management practices across human service agencies. Efficient case documenting, case recording and time management approaches will be developed along with case planning skills that recognize individual client needs. Community resource utilization, goal development, action planning, advocating, service coordination and utilization of assessment information will also be covered. This is a skill-based course that aims to teach organizational principles, practices and processes to students, thus enabling them to be effective in human and rehabilitation service delivery systems. Prerequisites: HRS 119 (Spring) Staff/ Three Credits
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is a supervised 100 hour field placement experience in an approved human or rehabilitation service agency. The field placement will provide students with an opportunity to become oriented to the human and rehabilitation services by observing and participating in the provision of services to client groups. As students develop they will have the opportunity to use their skills and knowledge to provide services within a highly supervised setting. This field placement enables students to work with staff representing a variety of human service fields. Students will also participate in a weekly seminar that provides group supervision, instruction and discussion of the field placement experience. (Fall/Spring) Staff/ Three Credits
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course provides students with knowledge of the complex challenges that families face when a family member has a chronic illness or severe disability. It focuses on developing specialized skills and sensitivities for working with families in an attempt to encourage families to become a partner in rehabilitation. This course attempts to provide students with a context and a philosophy for facilitating families in achieving a satisfactory quality of life following the advent of disability and/or illness. Furthermore, the course aims to teach professionals to assist family members in becoming a positive resource and support to the family member will the illness and/or disability. The course presents models of family assessment and family intervention. The course includes an analysis of relevant and critical issues to consider when working with families during the rehabilitation process. Specific attention is given to the family life cycle and the effect of disability/chronic illness on the family. (Spring) Staff/ Three Credits
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will address the topics of loss, grief, bereavement, aging, and the dying process from a humanistic perspective. The course will examine the role of spirituality, culture, gender, and developmental stage in responding to loss. This course will address the role that helping professionals and fellow human beings can play in facilitating and encouraging the natural, healthy, and healing expression of emotions related to loss. In this course, students will learn that grieving evokes strong emotions and strong emotions can be overwhelming if they are not spoken in the presence of someone who can accept and not judge. Therefore, students in this course will be taught how to be present with someone experiencing strong emotions related to loss and death, how to respond to feelings shared by others experiencing grief and loss, and how to encourage others to accept and cope with strong emotions related to loss and grief.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will explore current and past approaches in the rehabilitation of the criminal offender in the community. This course will cover the theories and philosophies that have shaped community rehabilitation efforts geared toward the offender population. Legislated community sanctions, punishments, and deterrence control strategies will be explored in depth. (Fall) Staff/ Three Credits
  • 3.00 Credits

    Special topics courses are elective courses designed to address special issues, skills and knowledge needed in the human and rehabilitation services. These courses are designed for junior and senior level students as independent research and inquiry are required. (Fall/Spring) Staff/ Three Credits
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is an in-depth study of the muscular, skeletal and nervous systems as they pertain to speech, hearing and swallowing. This course covers the normal anatomy and physiology of the speech and hearing mechanisms with emphasis on respiration, phonation, resonance, articulation, hearing, swallowing and audition.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will provide students an overview of profes sional settings that employ counselors/helpers to work with children and adolescents. Settings such as public, private, and alternative schools, rehabilitation agencies, early intervention programs, and youth facilities will be covered. The role of professionals working in these settings will also be explored. The course will also provide an overview of a variety of issues associated with early childhood and adolescence. Basic guidelines for working with young clients will be covered in addition to an overview of specific techniques/ interventions for counseling children and adolescents. The course will focus on the practical application of developmental theory with techniques geared toward early & middle childhood and early & middle adolescence. The course will also address effective intervention techniques for culturally and ethnically diverse youth, youth with special needs, and at-risk youth. Effective parental and family interventions will also be covered.
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