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

通过夏令营、科学博览会和其他计划，改善科学、数学、工程和技术(SMET)的教育和残疾学生的纳入，对于我们未来SMET劳动力的多样化至关重要。偏远和农村地区的残疾学生由于其地理位置，获得SMET资源的可能性要小得多。此外，残疾学生及其家庭经常因为交通、适应性技术、支持人员、个人护理和建筑改造方面的过高费用而陷入经济困境。在家庭支付了这些必需品后，Smet营地和项目通常是一个经济负担。作为我们项目的一步，我们计划与现有的SMET夏令营和项目合作，以证明所有夏令营都可以适合残疾学生。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经验，从而在SMET就业。塑造职业前沿项目将由拉德克和欧文斯博士指导，并由Access Alaska提供帮助。拉德克博士是一位著名的科学家和社区活动家，欧文斯博士是一位经验丰富的研究人员和教师、户外教育家和发明家。两人都有严重的残疾，并且非常熟悉残疾人在SMET相关活动中所面临的问题。Access Alaska将在培训、营地准入和网络发展方面发挥重要作用。该项目将创建一个由学生、家庭、科学家、教育工作者和大学级科学教师培训人员组成的核心项目。这一融合将努力增加阿拉斯加各地残疾学生获得SMET教育的机会。作为一个团体，我们将通过改变国家的科学教育课程、教育实践和政策来努力实现这一目标。我们计划在全州范围内确定哪些残疾学生可以从这项计划中受益，并为他们提供实践的、基于现场的科学知识。我们将强调为残疾学生与非残疾学生的传统学生提供融合的活动。在这些活动中，许多残疾学生将成为榜样和导师，他们将为个别学生和不同类型的学生团队(包括健全学生和残疾学生)提供建议、解决问题和指导。适当的辅助技术将与互联网配合使用，以确保残疾学生充分参与MMET活动，并将使用电子技术(包括互联网)鼓励学生团队、教育组织、行政人员和社区成员之间的网络和信息传播。该项目将被仔细记录在公共电视和互联网场所。该项目制作的所有出版物都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.