Workshop and Study Group on the Demography of Disabled Scientists and Engineers

该项目的目的是确定一个研究小组，并召集一个由一些选定的科学家组成的研讨会，讨论残疾科学家和工程师人口统计学的问题、定义、参考和调查技术。与会者将制定一项议程和战略，以发展一种可实施的方法来研究残疾科学家和工程师的人口统计，并建议采取干预措施以增加科学和工程领域的残疾人人数。讲习班是充分利用目前未充分利用的一群人的第一步，并增加他们参与导致科学和工程就业的教育计划。讲习班制作的论文将向问卷和其他抽样问题领域的研究人员以及美国科学促进会所属的科学和工程学会广泛宣传。讲习班的另一个组成部分是与美国人口普查局联合举行的第三天，在这一天，前两天讲习班参与者的一个选定小组将与人口普查局的一些个人会面，讨论1990年人口普查中有关残疾问题的措辞。这些讨论将有助于最后拟订人口普查中有关残疾的问题。这些活动对美国当前和未来的科学和技术健康具有重要影响。查明未充分就业的残疾科学家和工程师，如果这些人得到适当雇用，将有助于缓解目前的短缺。年轻残疾学生的积极性将有助于增加正在萎缩的22岁青年群体，我们将从他们那里获得未来的科学家和工程师。

The purpose of this project is to identify a study group and to convene a workshop of a select group of scientists to address the issues definitions, references, and survey techniques on the demography of scientists and engineers with disabilities. The participants will prepare an agenda and strategy for the development of an implementable methodology to study the demography of disabled scientists and engineers, and suggest interventions to increase the numbers of disabled individuals in science and engineering. The workshop is a first step in fully utilizing a group of individuals who are currently underutilized and to increase their participation in educational programs leading to employment in science and engineering. The papers produced by the workshop will be widely publicized to researchers in the areas of questionnaire and other sampling issues, as well as to the affiliated scientific and engineering societies of AAAS. An additional component of the workshop is a third day to be held in conjunction with the U. S. Bureau of the Census, at which a select sub-group of the participants in the first two workshop days will meet with a number of individuals from the Bureau of the Census to discuss the phrasing of the questions concerning disability in the 1990 Census. These discussions will help in the final formulation of the Census questions concerning disability. These activities have important implications for the current and the future scientific and technological health of the United States. The identification of under-employed, disabled scientists and engineers will help to alleviate present shortages if such persons are appropriately employed. The motivation of young, disabled students will help to increase the shrinking cohort of 22-year-olds from which we will get our future supply of scientists and engineers.