Salus University’s LVR Program First in the Country to be Accredited

Salus University’s LVR Program First in the Country to be Accredited

The Association for the Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER) has been accrediting Orientation and Mobility, Vision Rehabilitation Therapy and Teachers of the Visually Impaired programs for a while now.

But the organization did not previously accredit Low Vision Rehabilitation (LVR) programs . . . until now. And, Salus University’s LVR program, in the Department of Blindness and Low Vision Studies (BLVS), is the first program to achieve this accreditation from AER.

BLVS started the process to achieve this in the Fall 2020, during the pandemic. AER interviewed graduates, current students and faculty that work with the University’s LVR program. After those interviews were completed, the University heard back from AER in April of this year that the LVR program had been accredited.