NCSA NEWS

NSF Funds Program to Bring Computational Science to Hearing Impaired

released June 13, 2000

The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year $450,000 grant to the Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., of Durham, NC, to develop curricula and technical signing techniques that will help teachers incorporate computational science into instructional programs for hearing impaired students.

The project is called "SUCCEED HI: Simulating Understanding of Computational Science Through Collaboration, Exploration, Experiment and Discovery for Students with Hearing Impairments." Shodor, a partner in the Education, Outreach and Training Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (EOT-PACI) program, will work on the project with partners at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Education of Deaf Children Program, the Central North Carolina School for the Deaf, Interpreters, Inc., and the National Technical Institute of the Deaf.

SUCCEED HI aims to help hearing impaired students and their teachers use emerging technologies, such as computer modeling and simulations, in the classroom. According to Shodor Executive Director Robert Panoff these students and teachers are in danger of being left behind by the technology revolution. Programs for the hearing impaired that utilize advanced technologies, especially those that incorporate computational science, are rare.

Robert R. Gotwals, Jr., computational science educator at Shodor, is the project lead and has extensive experience teaching and developing materials for the hearing impaired. Panoff is co-Principal Investigator for the project.

 

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