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

这一项目的目的是确定一个研究小组，并召开一次选定科学家小组的讲习班，讨论残疾科学家和工程师人口统计学方面的定义、参考资料和调查技术等问题。与会者将制定一项议程和战略，以制定一种可执行的方法来研究残疾科学家和工程师的人口统计学，并提出干预措施，以增加科学和工程领域的残疾人数。该讲习班是充分利用一群目前未得到充分利用的个人，并增加他们对教育方案的参与，从而在科学和工程领域就业的第一步。讲习班编写的论文将广泛宣传给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的附属科学和工程学会。研讨会的另一个组成部分是与美国人口普查局联合举办的第三天，在前两个研讨会中，选定的参与者小组将与人口普查局的一些人会面，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定有关残疾的人口普查问题。这些活动对美国当前和未来的科技健康具有重要影响。识别就业不足、残疾的科学家和工程师，如果这些人得到适当的就业，将有助于缓解目前的短缺状况。年轻的残疾学生的积极性将有助于增加22岁这一日益缩小的群体，我们将从他们那里获得未来的科学家和工程师供应。

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.