Dr. Larry R. Dickerson
Larry R. Dickerson, Ph.D.
Professor
Rehabilitation Counseling Program
Office: Dickenson Hall 515
Email: lrdickerson@ualr.edu
Office Phone: (501) 569-3428
Dr. Dickerson is currently on academic leave for the 2009-2010 year. He holds an MA and PhD in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Iowa (1971). He is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor and a Licensed Psychologist in Arkansas. During his 35+ years of rehabilitation and higher education experience Dr. Dickerson has held positions as a Work Adjustment Counselor in Wisconsin, Rehabilitation Counselor of the Blind and Visually Impaired in New York, Senior Research Faculty member with a Rehabilitation Research and Training Center in Arkansas, Director of Training with Rehabilitation Research and Training Center in Wisconsin, and again in Arkansas as the Rehabilitation Regional Continuing Education Program Director, in addition to being a Program Coordinator, Department Chair, Associate Dean and Research Center Director at his current University. Dr. Dickerson has published in excess of 40 book chapters, monographs, research reports and journal articles. He has procured grant and contract funding for over forty projects with funding that exceeds $10 million dollars.
Dr. Dickerson has been an active member of the Region VI Recruitment Committee which works with the National Clearing House for Rehabilitation Training Materials to develop revised and new editions of “Careers in Vocational Rehabilitation”. The committee also developed a recruiting toolbox and established recruitment workshops for rehabilitation agencies.>
The online degree program he currently directs is CORE accredited. Dr. Dickerson and his staff recruit approximately 100 new degree seeking students to Rehabilitation Counseling each year without benefit of RSA Traineeships. Fifty+ new CRC eligible MA graduates were produced by this program in the 2006-2007 academic year. In addition, the program recruited over 30 additional new practitioners to the field by recruiting individuals with counseling related degrees and providing coursework that permitted these students to meet CRC and LPC requirements.