New Online Course on "Building Careers in Design"
By Elaine Ostroff, Adaptive Environments
This is to introduce you to a new online course, 'Building Careers in Design' that we hope you will promote to colleagues, especially vocational and career counselors in your area. The course will benefit counselors by enabling them to better serve the employment needs of people with disabilities through the development of quality careers in a range of design fields. This 6-week 30 CRC credit course begins June 21 and is offered through the Interwork Institute of San Diego State University, in cooperation with Adaptive Environments, Boston, MA. The course fee is $175. For more information, see www.careersindesign.org.
The course had a very successful pilot in cooperation with the VR agencies in California, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Oregon. Counselors applauded the in-depth content, access to successful designers with disabilities, and easy to use online resources that enabled them to assess interests and develop well-documented IPEs. The course was developed through a contract with the RSA National Vocational Rehabilitation Technical Assistance Center and is part of 'Building Careers in Design,' a web-based technical assistance project that includes extensive web resources for consumers, counselors, human resource personnel, and families.
The project intent is to encourage people with disabilities into careers in the design fields, including architecture, landscape design, web design, urban design, and industrial design. Design fields are often overlooked as career options for people with disabilities. A printable flyer that you can use is available online at: www.careersindesign.org/flyer . For more information contact Kristin Schneider at 617-695-1225 ex 35 or kschneider@AdaptiveEnvironments.org.
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