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[Kate Thegreat]

is a VR technician a pretty universal term used around the country? And, could I start out as a VR technician and work my way up to being a rehab teacher or a TVI if I do actually have a bachelor's degree or am I still going to run into a brick wall until I finally go do the GRE's and get myself through a master's program?

 

Yeah, I know, I'm terrified of the GRE's so I'm trying to find any loop hole I can.

 

I understand the need for certification and I'd do it in a heart beat but standardized tests... I mean, I do okay up til the math part. Why do they have to test my math skills in order to get into a rehab or TVI program anyhow? I can teach kids the abbicus, yeah, okay, that's cool, but I'm not going to have to be teaching the kids all this ridiculousness they have on the GRE's will I?

 

Kate

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> Message: 1> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:02:41 -0500
> From: "Jan Bailey" <jb021951 at charter.net>
> Subject: Re: [rehab] rehab teacher training
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> Well, the bad news first. I believe you will have to take the GRE if you go 
> to graduate school. I'm not a vision teacher, but I have worked as a rehab 
> teacher, and I did that with a bachelor's degree several years ago, but a 
> rehab teacher teaches daily living skills and cooking to blind adults. They 
> may also teach some beginning cane travel skills, or some more advanced cane 
> travel depending on where they work. Vision teachers work with children, and 
> work more with them on their school work and adapting or modifying teaching 
> techniques that will help them get the information they need. They also 
> teach Braille and how to use adaptive equipment. . In Minnesota we hire VR 
> technicians to work with seniors, and they don't even have a Bachelor's 
> Degree. Jan
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