Microcomputer Technologies in the Facilitation of the Hearing Impaired in the Life Sciences

本项目的目的是制作适合听障学生使用的微机程序。将确定数百个针对非残疾学生群体开发的生物科学教学项目。然后，项目工作人员将选择和修改其中约30个符合目标受众使用所需的具体标准。修改将包括软件内容的改变，使用更基本和具体的指导，简化词汇，语法结构更容易被聋哑学生理解，以及增加视觉效果。该项目将在华盛顿特区加劳德特学院校园的聋哑学生中对该软件进行实地测试。这些学生将是聋人模范中学的9至12年级学生，以及学院本科课程的一年级和二年级学生。该项目的目标是提高全美中等和高等教育机构中教授聋哑学生的微型计算机程序的可用性。其中包括大约900所为聋人学生开设的高中/课程/班级，以及75个为聋人提供服务的高等教育课程。

The purpose of this project is to produce microcomputer programs suitable for use by hearing impaired students. Several hundred bioscience instructional programs, developed for populations of non- handicapped students, will be identified. The project staff will then select and modify about 30 of these which meet specific criteria required for use by the target audience. Modifications will include changes in the content of the software and the use of more basic and concrete instruction, a simplified vocabulary, grammatical structures more understandable to the deaf students, and increased numbers of visuals. The project will field test the software with deaf students who are on the campus of Gallaudet College in Washington, DC. These students will be 9th through 12th graders at the Model Secondary School for the Deaf, and freshmen and sophomores in undergraduate programs of the College. The goal of the project is to improve the availability of microcomputer programs in secondary and post-secondary institutions for teaching deaf students across the United States. These include some 900 high schools/programs/classes for deaf students, and 75 post-secondary programs serving the deaf.