Planning Grant for the Center for Advancing Technological Education for the Deaf

国家聋人技术研究所（NTID），罗切斯特理工学院（RIT）的一个学院，正在规划一个资源中心，聋人技术教育推进中心（CATED）的发展。该中心的目标是增加进入高技术领域的聋人和听力困难的技术人员的数量。该中心将作为一个资源，为聋人/hh学生，成人，高中和社区大学，为他们提供：1。STEM相关技术人员计划职业信息的在线信息交换所（包括但不限于工程、信息技术、计算机辅助精密加工、计算机辅助制图、数字成像和实验室科学等领域）以及专门针对高中和社区学院聋人/聋哑学生的最佳教学做法，以及为雇主和同事提供的关于与聋人/hh技术人员成功合作的信息。2.一个由聋人/hh学生和STEM相关技术项目和技术人员职业的导师和同行组成的虚拟社区。3.社区学院的合作伙伴关系，包括专业发展和教师在驻地和/或交流计划，以帮助社区学院教师提高他们的聋人/hh学生的成功。4.将美国技术教育协会资助的项目"快进：聋人和重听学生信息技术教育之路“扩大到其他技术学科和更多的高中，包括有孤立的主流聋人学生的公立高中，并与当地社区学院达成协议，接受RIT/NTID学分。5.扩大由美国技术工程师协会资助的聋人信息技术倡议项目，通过远程学习技术为科学、技术、工程和数学相关技术领域的聋人/聋哑专业人员提供培训。PI正在访问几个现有的ATE中心，以确定中心的最佳组织结构和预算要求。 规划过程包括：评价职业宣传材料并确定如何编制有针对性的材料;调查门户网站的发展情况，以支持虚拟学习社区，并通过远程学习提供双学分课程和直接信息和培训讲习班;发展伙伴关系，以收集和分享材料，提供职业信息，并提供指导、培训和联网。

The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), a college of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is the planning for the development of a resource center, the Center for Advancing Technological Education for the Deaf (CATED). The goal of this center is to increase the number of deaf and hard-of-hearing (deaf/hh) technicians entering the high-technology fields. The center will serve as a resource for deaf/hh students, adults, and the high schools and community colleges that serve them by providing: 1. An on-line clearinghouse for career information on STEM-related technician programs (including, but not limited to, the fields of engineering, information technology, computer-assisted precision machining, computer-aided drafting, digital imaging and laboratory science) and best teaching practices targeted specifically for deaf/hh students in high schools and community colleges, and information on working successfully with deaf/hh technicians for employers and co-workers. 2. A virtual community of both mentors and peers for deaf/hh students and professionals in STEM-related technical programs and technician careers. 3. Community college partnerships that include professional development and faculty-in-residence and/or exchange programs to help community college faculty improve the success of their deaf/hh students. 4. Expansion of the ATE-funded Project Fast Forward: Pathway to an IT Education for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Student to other technical disciplines and to more high schools, including public high schools with isolated mainstreamed deaf students, and creating agreements with local community colleges to accept the RIT/NTID credit. 5. Expansion of the ATE-funded Deaf Initiative in Information Technology project to provide training through distance learning technology for deaf/hh professionals in STEM-related technician fields. The PIs are visiting several existing ATE Centers to determine the best organizational structure and budget requirements for a Center. Evaluation of career awareness material and determination of how targeted material can be developed; investigation of web portal development that supports the virtual learning community and the delivery of dual credit courses and DIIT workshops through distance learning; and development of partnerships for collecting and sharing materials, providing career information, and for mentoring, training, and networking are part of the planning process..