Developmental Services Worker (Accelerated)

Specialize in working with children and adults with disabilities.

Make a real difference! In Fanshawe's Developmental Services Worker program, you'll learn to provide support for people with a range of disabilities including intellectual disabilities and autism.

Developmental Services Workers (DSW) are specialists in working with children and adults with developmental disabilities. Courses focus on disabilities, mental health, interpersonal skills, counselling, health, pharmacology, teaching and intervention strategies.

This Ontario College Diploma program is offered in an accelerated format and can be completed in one year. The program has field practice components in agency settings and prepares graduates for employment in a variety of community-based agencies.

Graduates are employed as support workers, advocates, and educational assistants by agencies providing accommodation, leisure and employment support as well as by boards of education.

Plus, you may be eligible to transfer credits for further education at universities such as Ryerson, Windsor, Calgary and Griffith University in Queensland, Australia.

Program coordinator:

Larry Cavan
Phone: 519.426.8260
Fax: 519.428.3112
E-mail: lcavan@fanshawec.ca