WELCOME

Fifty leaders in the field of support service provision for postsecondary deaf and hard-of-hearing students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) from across the U.S. will attend the “Summit” on the campus of the Rochester Institute of Technology, in June 2008. The primary outcome of this conference will be a report on the current state of online remote interpreting and captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. Additionally, the principals will prepare a recommendation report specifying the characteristics of a multimedia cyberinfrastructure to provide remote communication support for deaf and hard-of-hearing students in mainstream STEM classrooms. The two-day conference, scheduled for June 26-27, is timed to follow the 2008 International Symposium on Educational Technology and Education of the Deaf, scheduled for June 23-25 at RIT (http://www.rit.edu/~techsym).