Ontario College Graduate Certificate Therapeutic Recreation (Kingston)
Course Overview
This intensive one-year program equips students with the specialized skills to become therapeutic recreation professionals, enabling individuals of all abilities to improve their health and quality of life through meaningful recreation. The curriculum combines face-to-face and online learning to provide flexibility and covers client assessment, program development, and adaptive facilitation techniques. A unique feature includes a dedicated course in small business development, preparing graduates for success in both public sectors and private practice.
Key Program Highlights
- Comprehensive training in client assessment, program development, and evaluation
- Blended delivery model with primarily in-person and some online classes for flexibility
- Unique small business development course for entrepreneurial skills
- Focus on adaptive techniques to make recreation inclusive for all abilities
- Core philosophy centered on the therapeutic power of play, recreation, and leisure
Course Overview
This intensive one-year program equips students with the specialized skills to become therapeutic recreation professionals, enabling individuals of all abilities to improve their health and quality of life through meaningful recreation. The curriculum combines face-to-face and online learning to provide flexibility and covers client assessment, program development, and adaptive facilitation techniques. A unique feature includes a dedicated course in small business development, preparing graduates for success in both public sectors and private practice.
Key Program Highlights
- Comprehensive training in client assessment, program development, and evaluation
- Blended delivery model with primarily in-person and some online classes for flexibility
- Unique small business development course for entrepreneurial skills
- Focus on adaptive techniques to make recreation inclusive for all abilities
- Core philosophy centered on the therapeutic power of play, recreation, and leisure
Requirements
Modules
- Therapeutic Recreation And Selected Populations 1
- Therapeutic Recreation Foundations
- Therapeutic Recreation Process
- Inclusive & Adapted Recreation
- Leadership In Therapeutic Recreation
- Anatomy And Physiology In Therapeutic Recreation
- Assessment And Documentation In Therapeutic Recreation
- Leisure Education
- Therapeutic Recreation And Selected Populations 2
- Issues And Trends In Therapeutic Recreation
- Research And Evaluation In Therapeutic Recreation
- Facilitation Techniques In Therapeutic Recreation
- Therapeutic Recreation Small Business Development
- Therapeutic Recreation Internship
