Developmental Services Worker

Please see our course listings of available General Education and Communications courses for this program.

Program Description

Students develop skills to support youth and adults who have a developmental disability. Students develop advocacy skills that promote self-determination and assist individuals in the development of skills that encourage independence, community engagement, and citizenship. In the counselling and apartment labs, students practice sign language, medication administration, health care skills, counselling supports, and use of assistive devices and technology. In collaboration with community partners, students plan & implement activities that promote inclusion & self-determination. Other areas of study include intellectual, physical and mental disabilities, autism and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Students consolidate this learning in fourteen weeks of supervised field placements in their preferred geographical location.