Self-advocacy training for students with cochlear implants entering college

描述（由申请人提供）：KDHRC计划开发人工耳蜗大学（CIU）网站，为16至21岁的高中生和大学生（swci）及其父母提供自我倡导的知识和技能，以支持他们成功地向高等教育（HE）过渡。CIU的主要目标是提高SWCI对高等教育转型主题的认识，例如他们的法律权利、对高等教育环境中自我倡导的积极态度、自我倡导的自我效能和自我倡导的意图——所有这些都是自我倡导技能发展的前兆。父母的支持与SWCI的学业和社会成功相关，因此CIU的第二个目标是提高SWCI父母对高等教育过渡主题（如如何申请高等教育教室住宿）的了解和自我效能感，以及支持孩子的意愿。CIU解决了一个迫切的需求。越来越多的SWCI正在进入高等教育，初步数据表明，与听力正常的同龄人相比，他们经历了无数的学术和社会挑战，例如高辍学率和糟糕的学术和社会成果。然而，缺乏针对SWCI和HE转型的自我倡导计划。专家们呼吁建立以证据为基础的项目，开发一套核心的自我倡导知识和技能，以减轻这些挑战，并支持高等教育的成功转型。CIU将作为该领域的独特资源满足这一需求。完成后

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): KDH Research & Communication (KDHRC) proposes to develop Cochlear Implant University (CIU) website, a self-advocacy training tool for high school and college students with CIs (SWCIs) aged 16 to 21 and their parents to develop self-advocacy knowledge and skills that support a successful academic and social transition to higher education (HE). CIU's primary aim is to increase SWCI's: knowledge on HE transition topics, such as their legal rights, positive attitudes towards self-advocating in HE environments, self-efficacy to self-advocate, and intentions to self-advocate - all precursors of self-advocacy skills development. Parental support is correlated with SWCI academic and social success, therefore CIU's secondary aim is to increase SWCI parents' knowledge about and self-efficacy and intentions to support their children on HE transition topics, such as how to apply for HE classroom accommodations. CIU addresses a pressing need. Increasing numbers of SWCI are entering HE and preliminary data indicate that they experience myriad academic and social challenges compared to their hearing peers, such as high dropout rates and poor academic and social outcomes. However, there is a lack of self-advocacy programs specific to SWCI and the HE transition. Experts are calling for evidence-based programs to develop a core set of self-advocacy knowledge and skills which may mitigate these challenges and support a successful HE transition. CIU will meet this need as a unique resource in the field. At the completion of this project, we will have a prototype website, consisting of SWCI and parent contents on core transition topics, such as applying for HE accommodations, understanding legal rights, and self- advocating in academic and social situations. Phase II will add interactive components and additional topics. The feasibility evaluation will explore the extent to which exposure to the CIU prototype changes SWCI knowledge on HE transition topics, positive attitudes towards self-advocating in HE environments, self-efficacy to self-advocate, and intentions to self-advocate, and parents' knowledge about and self-efficacy and intentions to support their children on HE transition topics. Taken together, CIU and its feasibility results aim to develop SWCI and parent self-advocacy knowledge and skills that support a successful academic and social transition to HE and establish CIU's feasibility for further development in Phase II.