Broadening Participation from Hearing Impaired Community at Tapia Computing Conference 2007

提案摘要：计算机械协会建议带一批残障学生？特别是听力障碍？在2007年理查德·塔皮亚的计算多样性庆典上，通过提高残疾人对计算科学的认识和参与，促进了计算科学的发展。Tapia庆典是扩大计算代表以包括残疾学生的完美场所。Tapia大会规模较小(相对于其他专业计算会议)，其重点是STEM学生，将提供一个欢迎和培养学生的环境。此外，残疾学生很可能会在塔皮亚找到与代表不足的少数民族学生相似或重叠的经历。例如，这两个群体都有被传统教育和职业渠道忽视的经历。这些相似的经历可以成为友谊和合作的基础。这些密切的学生互动还将播种或拓宽学生对未来计算环境、需求和创新的看法。来自加拉德特和RIT的教职员工已经为每个学生确定了具体的支持需求，这些需求将与所请求的支持相适应

Proposal Summary: The Association for Computing Machinery proposes to bring a number of students with disabilities ? specifically hearing impairment ? to the 2007 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, there by increasing awareness of and participation by people with disabilities in the computing sciences. The Tapia Celebration is the perfect venue to broaden computing representation to include students with disabilities. The Tapia Conference, with its small size (relative to other professional computing conferences) and its focus on STEM students, would provide a welcoming and nurturing environment. Moreover, students with disabilities may well find similar or overlapping experiences with the under-represented ethnic students at Tapia. For instance, both groups have experiences being overlooked by traditional educational and professional pipelines. These conveyed similar experiences can become the basis of friendships and collaborations. These close student interactions would also seed or broaden student perspectives on future computing environments, needs, and innovation. Faculty from Gallaudet and from RIT has identified specific support needs for each student and those needs will be accommodated with the requested support