Amos P. Sales - Professor


Ed.D., University of Florida

Teaching: Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation education, Rehabilitation counseling

Amos Sales, (Ed.D., University of Florida) is Professor and Head of Rehabilitation Programs in the Department of Special Education, Rehabilitation and School Psychology. He directs four long term training grants supporting state-wide delivery of rehabilitation coursework through videoconferencing and one state-wide in-service training grant. He has taught all rehabilitation-related coursework and currently teaches doctoral and masters level experiential courses in developing counseling skills. He has held numerous leadership positions in national associations and is the Past-President of both the National Rehabilitation Association and the National Council on Rehabilitation Education. He has published on a wide variety of issues in rehabilitation with the majority of this work related to development of programs of rehabilitation service or education delivery and has served as a consultant nationally and internationally in these areas. Since 1986, his research, publication, and service emphasis has been in the area of substance abuse treatment and prevention. This work has resulted since 2000 in four texts, two he has edited and two he has authored.