One of the unique benefits of an RIT/NTID education is the level of academic and communication support available to students in every kind of degree program.
"There was never a question of going to college; it was just a matter of where. I chose RIT/NTID because of the technical focus and support services already in place that I could use to my advantage."
-Joshua Allman, Irvine, Calif.Associate Level Programs:
If your student enrolls in an NTID associate degree program, instructors will use a variety of direct communication strategies, including sign language, spoken language, fingerspelling, printed/visual aids, Web-based instructional materials and individual tutoring.
Baccalaureate Level Programs:
If your student enrolls in a baccalaureate program in one of the seven other colleges of RIT, appropriate access services for a mainstream setting will be provided. Depending on a student’s needs and the instructional setting, access services are assigned and can include sign language transliteration, assistive listening systems, notetaking and in those individual situations when a student cannot benefit from sign language transliteration, speech-to-text real time translation, including a notetaking component (usually C-Print) may be provided.
Tutoring
If your student feels he or she needs extra help to complete a course successfully, he or she can contact individual faculty, the state-of-the-art NTID Learning Center staffed by professional and peer tutors, or RIT's Academic Support Center.
Counseling
NTID counselors provide personal, social, career and academic counseling services to all deaf/hard of hearing students at RIT. Every deaf student at RIT/NTID has a counselor assigned to work with him/her. Who is my child's counselor?