PATRICIA MARIE BUSSEN
SMITH
EDUCATIONAL
BACKGROUND
Northern
Impairment, Elementary
Education
[Certified braille
transcriber]
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Tenured
Professor and Chairperson in the Department of Counseling, Adult and
Rehabilitation Education. Coordinator of the
Rehabilitation Teaching of the Blind graduate
program.
Dates of employment: 1984 -
present. (Chairperson: 1992-present)
Northern Illinois
University, DeKalb, Illinois
Instructor and Project
Director of the master's degree program in Rehabilitation Teaching of the Adult
Blind.
Dates of employment: 1978 -
1984.
Association for the Blind
and for Sight Conservation, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Teacher/Supervisor of the
Rehabilitation Teaching Department, Manager of the adaptive devices non-profit
store, trainer and coordinator of the volunteer braille
transcribers.
Dates of employment: 1973 -
1978.
Battle Creek Public Schools,
Battle Creek, Michigan Teacher of students with impaired vision K-12. Dates of employment: 1967 -
1972.
SERVICE
Service has been provided to
the blindness field through: 1. providing presentations, workshops, and post
employment training, 2. serving on peer review panels for grants and
professional journals, on-site teams for accreditation, and national task forces
representing rehabilitation teaching 3. serving as an officer, advisory board
member and committee member on local, regional, and national professional
organizations, with primary service on the Board of Directors of the Academy for
Certification of Vision Rehabilitation and Education Professionals. International presentations, workshops,
or courses have been provided in Manila, Philippines; Monterray, Mexico;
Changchun, China; Parrysound, Ontario; Warsaw, Poland; and Vancouver, British
Columbia.
* Josephine L. Taylor Award for
"dedication and outstanding leadership in personnel
preparation" AER Division
17, 2001.
* Bruce McKenzie Award for "outstanding
contributions to the field of rehabilitation
teaching". AER-Division XI,
1994.
*J. Max Woolly Superior
Service Award for "outstanding contributions in the field
of
blindness", Arkansas AER,
1994.
* Charlyn Allen Award for "outstanding
achievement, dedication, leadership, and innovation in
the field of rehabilitation
teaching, MACRT, 1991.