• You get to work with children with visual impairments, blindness, and other disabilities.
• You will learn BRAILLE!!!!
• A Dual Major means you graduate with teacher certification in two areas: Special Education and Elementary Education.
• Many job opportunities when you graduate in visual impairment.
• Most of our students have jobs as soon as they graduate. In the past fourteen years students have accepted teaching positions in Hawaii, Florida, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and, of course, Pennsylvania ... just to name a few.
• Students with a dual major are very competitive in the elementary education job market due to a background in special education and a move to inclusive education for all.
• About one-fourth of our students accept grants, scholarships, and research assistant opportunities for graduate school in Orientation and Mobility, Deafblindness, Rehabilitation or Early Childhood.

The curriculum and sequence of courses is designed to provide spiraled and sequenced content and allow student bonding throughout the program to optimize learning opportunities and student interaction on-campus. Each course is aligned with subsequent course content to provide the opportunity to apply what has been learned.