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. attended the “Summit” on the campus of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), in June 2008.

The primry outcome of this conference was a report on the current state of online remote interpreting and captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. Additionally, the principals prepared 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, followed the 2008 International Symposium on Educational Technology and Education of the Deaf, scheduled for June 23-25 at RIT. (http://www.rit.edu/~techsym).

See the resources section for Summit Reports