Rehabilitation Services Program


What we do in the Classroom...



Adapted Aquatics class uses the ramp and a special aquatics wheelchair to enter the university pool.
 

 

Three students pose for a picture while attending the National Rehabilitation Educators Conference in Tucson Arizona, Spring 2005.
 


Each year, two students are awarded with the program's Community Services Award and an Academic Achievement Award.
 

 


An animal assisted therapy facility near campus helps students consider alternative therapies when working with people.
 


Students learn the benefit of art therapy while painting in class.
 

 


Students simulate visual impairments while in the university pool.
 

 


Dr. Barrett takes students to attend the National Rehabilitation Educators conference in Washington D.C. in the Fall 2004.
 

   


Therapeutic Recreation students pose by a cemetery they found during a hike for a leadership experience.
 


During a winter carnival held at West Side Neuro Rehab in Lewiston, Maine, students make crafts and do other activities with consumers.
 

   


A day of sight seeing in Tucson Arizona while attending the National Educators of Rehabilitation Conference.  These students were of the few undergraduate students to present at the conference.
 


Learning about the benefits of the water during an Adapted Aquatics course.
 

 

 

A student gives a PowerPoint presentation during Rehab Club's annual Awareness Day.


 


Therapeutic recreation consists of a variety of activities, including snowshoeing in the Maine woods.
 

 
 


Rehab Club had Travis Roy attend their annual Awareness Day in the Spring 2005. 
 

 


Students build a raised gardening box during a therapeutic recreation course.
 

   


 Learning to adapt every day objects is important in this program.  Here, a student has created a way of playing a trumpet with only one hand.
 

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