PPD: FASED: Shaping Vocational Frontiers: Science, Engineering, and Mathematics for Persons with Disabilities in Rural and Remote Areas

通过营地、科学博览会和其他项目，改善残疾学生在科学、数学、工程和技术（SMET）方面的教育和包容，对我们未来SMET劳动力的多样化至关重要。由于偏远和农村地区的地理位置，残疾学生获得SMET资源的可能性要小得多。此外，由于交通、适应性技术、支持人员、个人护理和建筑改造方面的过高成本，残疾学生及其家庭往往面临经济困难。在家庭支付了这些必需品之后，SMET营地和项目往往成为一种经济负担。作为我们项目的一步，我们计划与现有的SMET营地和项目合作，以证明所有营地都适合残疾学生。这将使阿拉斯加等农村和偏远地区的学生能够充分参与科学和数学教育，从而在SMET中获得职业生涯。塑造职业前沿计划将由博士指导。Radtke和Owens在Access Alaska的帮助下。Radtke博士是一位著名的科学家和社区活动家，Owens博士是一位经验丰富的研究员和教师，户外教育家和发明家。两人都有严重的残疾，对残障人士在与SMET有关的活动中所面临的问题非常熟悉。Access Alaska将有助于培训、营地可达性和网络发展。该项目将创建一个以学生、家庭、科学家、教育工作者和大学级科学教师培训人员为核心的项目。这一合并将努力提高阿拉斯加州残疾学生获得SMET教育的机会。作为一个团体，我们将通过改变科学教育课程、教育实践和国家政策来实现这一目标。我们计划在全州范围内找出能够从这个项目中受益的残疾学生，并为他们提供动手的、基于实地的科学。我们将强调使残疾学生与没有残疾的传统学生融合的活动。在这些活动中，榜样和导师（其中许多人本身就有残疾）将建议、解决问题，并指导学生个人和不同的学生团队（包括健全的学生和残疾的学生）。适当的辅助技术将与互联网配合使用，以确保残疾学生将充分参与SMET活动。电子技术（包括互联网）将用于鼓励学生团队，教育机构，管理人员和社区成员之间的网络和信息传播。该项目将在公共电视和互联网上仔细记录。该项目制作的所有出版物将通过完全无障碍的电子媒体提供。

Improving education and inclusion of students with disabilities in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (SMET) through camps, science fairs and other programs are imperative to the diversification of our future SMET work force. Students with disabilities in remote and rural regions are much less likely to have access to SMET resources because of their geographic location. Additionally, students with disabilities and their families are often strapped financially due to excessive costs in transportation, adaptive technologies, support personnel, personal care, and architectural adaptations. After families pay for these essentials, SMET camps and programs often are a financial burden. As one step in our project, we plan to collaborate with existing SMET camps and programs, to demonstrate that all camps can be appropriate for students with disabilities. This would enable students in rural and remote regions such as Alaska to participate fully in science and math education experiences leading to careers in SMET. The Shaping Vocational Frontiers Project will be directed by Drs. Radtke and Owens with assistance from Access Alaska. Dr. Radtke is a well known scientist and community activist and Dr. Owens is an experienced researcher and teacher, outdoor educator and inventor. Both men have severe disabilities and are intimately familiar with the problems faced by persons with disabilities in SMET related activities. Access Alaska will be instrumental in training, camp accessibility, and network development. The project will create a program that involves a core of students, families, scientists, educators, and university-level science teacher trainers. This amalgam will strive to enhance the opportunities for acquiring SMET education for students with disabilities throughout Alaska. As a group we will work towards this goal through changes in science education curriculum, educational practices, and policy in the state. We plan to identify students with disabilities across the state who can benefit from this program and provide them with hands-on, field-based science. We will emphasize activities that provide for integration of students with disabilities with their traditional counterparts who do not have disabilities. Role models and mentors, many with disabilities themselves, will advise, problem solve, and guide both individual students and heterogeneous teams of students (consisting of both able-bodied and students with disabilities) in these activities. The appropriate assistive technology will be used in concert with Internet to insure that students with disabilities will be fully included in SMET activities, Electronic technology (including the Internet) will be used to encourage networking and information dissemination among student teams, educational organizations, administrators, and members of the community. The project will be carefully documented for public television and Internet venues. All publications produced by the project will be available through fully accessible electronic media.