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Who We Are

Lisa B. Elliot, Ph.D. & Robb Dooling RIT/NTID Center on Access Technology NTID Foundation Board Meeting , May 4, 2012 Rochester, NY . Who We Are. Supported by the National Science Foundation, HRD #1127955 3-5 year project Leadership team Lisa Elliot, PI James DeCaro , Co-PI

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Who We Are

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  1. Lisa B. Elliot, Ph.D. & Robb DoolingRIT/NTID Center on Access TechnologyNTID Foundation Board Meeting, May 4, 2012Rochester, NY

  2. Who We Are • Supported by the National Science Foundation, HRD #1127955 • 3-5 year project • Leadership team • Lisa Elliot, PI • James DeCaro, Co-PI • E William Clymer, Co-PI

  3. Campus Partners

  4. Background: Two prior NSF grants • Summit to Create a Cyber-Community to Advance Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals in STEM (OCI-0749253, PI E.W. Clymer) • Three-day conference with 50 national and regional leaders, including D/HH studentsin the field of access and support service provision for postsecondary D/HH students in STEM programs • Report on current state of remote interpreting and captioning • Recommendations outlining desirable characteristics of a multimedia cyberinfrastructure to provide remote communication support for D/HH students in STEM mainstreamed classrooms

  5. Background: Two prior NSF grants • Testing the Concept of a Virtual Alliance for Deaf and Hard of Hearing STEM Students at the Postsecondary Level, (HRD-0927586, PI E.W. Clymer) • Focus groups and needs assessments • Demographic information • Establish partnerships for this proposal

  6. Goal and Objectives • Goal • Increase the graduation rates of postsecondary D/HH STEM majors in the long term • Objectives • document and disseminate a description of the process of creating a model VAC for replication • increase the GPAs and retention rates of D/HH students in STEM majors.

  7. Components of the VAC • Remote support services (Years 1-5) • Tutoring • Mentoring by D/HH STEM professionals • Remote access services (Years 4-5) • Captioning • Interpreting • Social networking • Electronic resource collection

  8. Progress to Date • Remote tutoring • 8 students/5 tutors at RIT (Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Math, & Physics) • Using Google+ Hangouts as platform • Building Web Presence (www.dhhvac.org) • Recruiting mentors

  9. Remote Tutoring Using Google+ Hangouts

  10. Remote Tutoring Using Google+ Hangouts

  11. Summer Plans • Building the website using Drupal 7 • Making website accessible • Gathering accessible media links (e.g. STEM captioned videos, STEM dictionaries in ASL) • Creating guides for tutors, students, mentors

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