Undergraduate Rehabilitation Education and Accreditation: The Importance of Being Persistent.
This article presents an overview of undergraduate rehabilitation education (URE) and the movement toward accreditation. Tracing the history of URE from the earliest days of rehabilitation education programs up to the present, this review discusses the purposes of URE, traditional URE program curric...
| Published in: | Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling Vol. 49; no. 4; pp. 34 - 42 |
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| Format: | CEU Journal Article |
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Springer Publishing Company, Inc.
Winter2018
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