Model Programs in Education: Engineering and the Disabled

通过两个阶段的努力，这项调查将启动一个示范项目，使残疾人意识到他们成为工程师的潜力，并建立创新的方法，使这些人进入工程教育体系。第一阶段，私立和公立学校的特殊教育人员以及其他与残疾人直接互动的人员，向他们解释项目的目标，并争取他们的帮助来实现这些目标。以类似的方式，正在与工程公司和专业组织接洽，以对残疾人的教育和就业作出承诺。第二阶段的工作包括探索如何使工程教育对残疾人士可行和有吸引力。从交互式计算机程序到激励小册子，招聘工具正在进行分类。目前正在计划举行一次外联讨论会，其主要目的是使残疾人和与残疾人一起工作的人在他们的心目中成为残疾人的工程职业。第三阶段的计划，将看到示范方案扩大到一个全国性的论坛。在当前项目中获得的经验教训和知识将转交给有关人员，这些人员认为是位于美国战略位置的区域中心。

Through a two phase endeavor, this investigation is initiating a model program that will make the disabled aware of their potential to become engineers, and is establishing innovative means to bring these individuals into the engineering education system. Phase one special education personnel in private and public schools and others who have direct interaction with the disabled to explain the goals of the program and enlist their aid in achieving these goals. %%% In similar fashion, engineering firms and profesesional organizations are being approached to make a commitment to the education and employment of the disabled. %%% The work of the second phase involves exploring for ways to make engineering education possible and attractive to the disabled. Recruited tools are being divised, from interactive computer programs to incentive booklets. An outreach seminar is being planned whose main purpose will be to make an engineering career for the handicapped a reality in the minds of the disabled and those who work with the disabled. %%% A third phase is planned and would see the model program expanded to a nationwide forum. The lessons learned and knowledge gained in the current project will be transferred to concerned persons thought regional centers at strategic locations in the United States.