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Campus Watch: Cornell University aids hearing-disabled students | The Ithaca Journal | theithacajournal.com
An online support community for deaf and hard-of-hearing students majoring in science, technology, engineering or math is the goal of a Cornell University project.
Cornell, along with the Rochester Institute of Technology and Camden County College in New Jersey, will work to increase graduation rates for these students, according to Cornell. The project is supported by a $1.6 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation's Research in Disability Education program.
Cornell will test the use of cyber infrastructure to provide remote support for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. Cornell has a staff of interpreters who join these students in classes and provide captioning on laptops.
A computer link, though, could enable interpreters to provide the service remotely. An online community would also create the opportunity for remote tutoring and mentoring. If the project is successful at the college level, it could be used at high schools, according to Cornell.
There are more than 30,000 deaf and hard-of-hearing students studying at colleges across the country, according to the Center on Access Technology at RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf, which will administer the project. At Cornell, there are 17 deaf or hard-of-hearing students and eight of them are studying science, technology, engineering or math, according to the university.
An online support community for deaf and hard-of-hearing students majoring in science, technology, engineering or math is the goal of a Cornell University project.
Cornell, along with the Rochester Institute of Technology and Camden County College in New Jersey, will work to increase graduation rates for these students, according to Cornell. The project is supported by a $1.6 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation's Research in Disability Education program.
Cornell will test the use of cyber infrastructure to provide remote support for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. Cornell has a staff of interpreters who join these students in classes and provide captioning on laptops.
A computer link, though, could enable interpreters to provide the service remotely. An online community would also create the opportunity for remote tutoring and mentoring. If the project is successful at the college level, it could be used at high schools, according to Cornell.
There are more than 30,000 deaf and hard-of-hearing students studying at colleges across the country, according to the Center on Access Technology at RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf, which will administer the project. At Cornell, there are 17 deaf or hard-of-hearing students and eight of them are studying science, technology, engineering or math, according to the university.