ASU-Beebe to offer online physical therapy course

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)

BEEBE - The Arkansas State University-Beebe Department of Continuing Education will offer a new online class, Become a Physical Therapy Aide.

The demand for physical therapy aides is growing rapidly, said Holly Trimble, physical therapist and author of the new course. The Bureau of Labor Statistics places it in the top 12 fastest-growing vocational-technical occupations in the United States, and the Department of Labor expects the growth tocontinue for the next several years.

The six-week online course will cover a wide variety of subjects such as patient transport, equipment maintenance, scheduling and patient care, which should provide basic understanding of some tasks performed by physical therapy aides.

Students will have the convenience and flexibility of an online classroom, which is accessible day or night from home oroffice. An open Web-based discussion forum provides instructor and student interaction, as well as course-related questionand-response information.

The cost of the class is $79. Students may register for Become a Physical Therapy Aide, as well as more than 300 other online instructor-facilitated courses, by contacting ASUBeebe’s Continuing Education Department at (501) 882-8232 or by e-mailing Becky Latting at bslatting@asub.edu.

Three Rivers, Pages 54 on 07/17/2008