Purpose: The present article provides a narrative review of Australia's approach toward acquired brain injury (ABI) and proposes how Australia and the United States can collaborate to improve service delivery for persons with ABI and their families with epidemiology, healthcare, prevention, research, and training. Method: A narrative review of…

The percent of students with disabilities enrolled in college is substantially less than students without a disability. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the percent of the general population who hold a Bachelor's level college degree stands at 34.6% compared to only 16.4% of people with a disability (People with a disability less…

Ann Flannery is one of two transition specialists who serve youth and families statewide through the Post-Secondary Transition Program of the Idaho Educational Services for the Deaf and the Blind. In this article she writes that too often her office was seeing graduates coming back to school after failing to find a path to success. They returned…

Because the Post-9/11 GI Bill was implemented in August of 2009, increasing numbers of veterans returning from the Global War on Terror (GWT) have drawn on Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) educational benefits. Based on the findings of a mixed-methods study, quantitative and qualitative survey responses from veterans enrolled at a major…

Vocational rehabilitation (VR) professionals are critical partners in the transition process for students with disabilities; therefore, they are required to develop transition service delivery proficiencies. VR professional perceptions of transition competencies are seldom examined due to the perception that transition falls mainly on school-based…

The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA) contains several important provisions that make postsecondary education more accessible and affordable for young adults with disabilities. This is particularly true for students with intellectual disabilities, as the law created new comprehensive transition and postsecondary programs and provided…

A national study of rehabilitation counseling graduate students and state-federal rehabilitation counselors investigated whether there were differences between (a) what graduate students preferred to do upon graduation and what they believed vocational rehabilitation counselors did, (b) what graduate students preferred to do upon graduation and…

The purpose of this directory is to provide information to rehabilitation professionals and to prospective students who might be interested in pursuing doctoral study in rehabilitation. Doctoral programs are described in terms of degrees and majors offered, mission and strengths, faculty, application and admission requirements, curriculum, and…

Surveyed faculty representatives from all doctoral programs in rehabilitation counseling. Presents information describing the 38 identified programs, faculty, curriculum admission policies, and employment of graduates. Results showed that half the programs identified themselves as rehabilitation specific, and half indicated they offered a…

Reports the results of the third annual survey of university rehabilitation training programs conducted by the Council of Rehabilitation Counselor Educators (CRCE). The survey was responded to by 61 institutions. (HMV)

McNamara and others describe Boston University's off-campus graduate program in rehabilitation counseling, which uses distance learning methods such as videotapes and electronic bulletin boards. The intensive individualized advising and monitoring system is serving as a model for on-campus students. Comments by Ulicny and Rubin follow the article.…

Distance learning in higher education involves a continuum of technologies ranging from teleconferencing to video streaming. The United States is approaching a crisis in personnel shortages in rehabilitation counseling and education. Because of these shortages, higher education is called upon to produce counselors in an abbreviated period of time.…

Surveyed 75 rehabilitation counseling programs concerning master's degree level research instruction. Found research topics most likely to be included were research design and statistics. Some offered specific rehabilitation research course. Educators agreed that primary goal of rehabilitation research education is to teach students to become…

Assessed attitudes of 72 rehabilitation counseling students toward normal to massively obese clients. Participants viewed pictures of clients and read additional information. Results showed students held negative attitudes toward massively obese people, particularly massively obese women, who were more likely to be perceived as needing…