Supporting and Providing Access for Deaf Students in Signed Language Research

支持聋哑学生并为其提供手语研究机会

• 批准号: 2143969
• 负责人: David Quinto-Pozos
• 金额: $ 9.07万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-15 至 2024-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2143969&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Supporting; Providing; Access; Deaf; Students

This project supports the diversification of researchers who work on signed languages and their communities of users. Historically, the majority of signed language researchers have been hearing people, most of whom are adult learners of a signed language. However, there are few deaf and hard of hearing (hereafter deaf) signers among the ranks of signed language researchers. This project uses a mentorship model to provide a small group of deaf college and university students from throughout the United States with professional-development activities and support for attending the international Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR) conference. TISLR is the premier conference for signed language research in the world. The aim is to provide key opportunities for deaf students from the United States that will support their progression in graduate work and future involvement in the field of signed language research.The project will accomplish its goals in two key ways. First, deaf students who are chosen (via rigorous application process) to be part of pre- and post-conference mentorship activities will meet virtually with current deaf researchers, to discuss methods for engaging in academic research, presenting one’s findings at conferences, publishing the results of one’s work in scholarly journals, and engaging with the deaf community in order to share research findings and promote future recruitment of deaf students to the field. Second, deaf students will attend the TISLR conference (either in person or virtually), supported by American Sign Language-English interpretation services. The interpretation services are crucial because many conference presentations and activities will occur in (oral) English. Interpretation support will allow the deaf candidates supported by the project to access oral language and engage fully with the conference program and with other researchers in the field.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目支持研究签名语言及其用户社区的研究人员的多元化。从历史上看，大多数签名的语言研究人员都在听人们的声音，其中大多数是签名语言的成年学习者。但是，在签名的语言研究人员中，很少有聋哑听力（以后死亡）签名者。该项目采用心态模型，为来自美国各地的一小部分聋哑大学和大学生提供专业发展活动，并支持参加手语研究（TISLR）会议中国际理论问题。 Tislr是世界上签名语言研究的主要会议。目的是为来自美国的死亡学生提供关键机会，以支持他们在签名语言研究领域的研究生工作和未来参与方面的进步。该项目将以两种关键方式实现其目标。 First, deaf students who are chosen (via rigorous application process) to be part of pre- and post-conference mentality activities will meet virtually with current deaf researchers, to discuss methods for engaging in academic research, presenting one’s findings at conferences, publishing the results of one’s work in scientific journals, and engaging with the deaf community in order to share research findings and promote future recruitment of deaf students to the field.其次，聋人学生将参加美国手语 - 英语解释服务的支持，参加Tislr会议（亲自或虚拟）。解释服务至关重要，因为许多会议演讲和活动将以（口头）英语进行。解释支持将使该项目支持的死亡候选人能够访问口头语言并与该领域的其他研究人员完全互动。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务。