Northern Illinois University

Presidential Commission on Persons with Disabilites

students learning proper cane grip.

Academic Programs

Visual Disabilities

The College of Education offers a Visual Disabilities Program to train special education teachers to work with people with visual disabilities.

Communicative Disorders

The College of Health and Human Sciences features an undergraduate program in Communicative Disorders that emphasizes speech language pathology/ audiology and deafness rehabilitation. See Communicative Disorders - Undergraduate Areas of Study.

Disability in Society

The College of Health and Human Sciences offers a general-education course called Disability in Society. Dr. Greg Long, professor and licensed clinical psychologist, developed the course, which helps students examine disability from personal, psychological, philosophical, physiological, medical, and legal perspectives.

Physical Therapy

The Pre-Physical Therapy Program in the School of Allied Health & Communicative Disorders is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education.

Special Education

The College of Education offers Special Education (undergraduate) and Special Education (Master's).