Supporting and Providing Access for Deaf Students in Signed Language Research

支持聋哑学生并为其提供手语研究机会

• 批准号: 2143969
• 负责人: David Quinto-Pozos
• 金额: $ 9.07万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-15 至 2024-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2143969&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Supporting; Providing; Access; Deaf; Students

This project supports the diversification of researchers who work on signed languages and their communities of users. Historically, the majority of signed language researchers have been hearing people, most of whom are adult learners of a signed language. However, there are few deaf and hard of hearing (hereafter deaf) signers among the ranks of signed language researchers. This project uses a mentorship model to provide a small group of deaf college and university students from throughout the United States with professional-development activities and support for attending the international Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR) conference. TISLR is the premier conference for signed language research in the world. The aim is to provide key opportunities for deaf students from the United States that will support their progression in graduate work and future involvement in the field of signed language research.The project will accomplish its goals in two key ways. First, deaf students who are chosen (via rigorous application process) to be part of pre- and post-conference mentorship activities will meet virtually with current deaf researchers, to discuss methods for engaging in academic research, presenting one’s findings at conferences, publishing the results of one’s work in scholarly journals, and engaging with the deaf community in order to share research findings and promote future recruitment of deaf students to the field. Second, deaf students will attend the TISLR conference (either in person or virtually), supported by American Sign Language-English interpretation services. The interpretation services are crucial because many conference presentations and activities will occur in (oral) English. Interpretation support will allow the deaf candidates supported by the project to access oral language and engage fully with the conference program and with other researchers in the field.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目支持手语研究人员及其用户社区的多元化。从历史上看，大多数手语研究人员一直在听人说话，其中大多数是手语的成年学习者。然而，在手语研究者的队伍中，聋人和听力障碍（以下简称聋人）手语者却很少。该项目采用导师制模式，为来自美国各地的一小群聋人学院和大学生提供专业发展活动，并为参加国际手语研究理论问题 (TISLR) 会议提供支持。 TISLR 是世界上手语研究的首要会议。其目的是为来自美国的聋哑学生提供重要机会，支持他们在研究生工作中的进步以及未来参与手语研究领域。该项目将通过两个关键方式实现其目标。首先，被选为（通过严格的申请流程）参加会议前后指导活动的聋人学生将与当前的聋人研究人员进行虚拟会面，讨论从事学术研究的方法，在会议上展示自己的研究结果，在学术期刊上发表自己的工作成果，并与聋人社区互动，以分享研究成果并促进未来招募聋人学生到该领域。其次，聋哑学生将参加 TISLR 会议（现场或虚拟），并由美国手语-英语口译服务提供支持。口译服务至关重要，因为许多会议演示和活动都将以（口语）英语进行。口译支持将使该项目支持的聋哑候选人能够获得口头语言，并充分参与会议计划和该领域的其他研究人员。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。