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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
NTID Research Agenda
NTID determines topics for research on the basis of a research agenda and priorities derived from a
variety of sources in the college and in the field, including the NTID National Advisory Group and the
Department of Education. NTID researchers conduct ongoing, programmatic and institutional research
and special institutional research projects requested by the administrative team to comply with institute
priorities and performance indicators from the Department of Education. These research projects fall into
four categories:
1. Teaching and learning
2. Access, support services and related technology
3. Communication in the personal, learning and working environments
4. Enrollment management (diversity, minority issues, recruitment, persistence and graduation
rates)
As required by the Education of the Deaf Act (2008), NTID regularly solicits public input on the institute’s
research priorities through its research websites and publications. Visits to the research units (see below)
for the year totaled 38,574. The research publications that solicited input were NTID Research Bulletin,
NTID Papers and Publications, and Implications of NTID Research.
NTID Research Units
The Department of Research and Teacher Education (Academic Affairs) www.ntid.rit.edu/research/
has as its mission the improvement of the lives of deaf and hard-of-hearing people through research
than can be applied in the classroom, workplace and society. We recognize that collaboration across
departments and disciplines is key to fulfilling this mission, and we welcome the opportunity to work
with others in the discovery of new knowledge and its application to practice.
The Center on Access Technology (Office of the President) www.ntid.rit.edu/cat addresses the
challenge of utilizing, developing and/or adapting new technologies for use by people who are deaf
and hard-of-hearing to improve access to personal communication within educational environments,
social settings and the workplace. The center’s main strands of research include cyber-infrastructure
and provision of remote services, classroom access technologies, personal communication
technologies, and audio technologies of particular interest to hard-of-hearing persons.
The National Sign Language Interpreting Project began as
an effort to improve access to education by deaf and hardof-hearing
students, enhance interpreter education, and
better understand the cognitive abilities underlying
interpreting and its comprehension.
Our various research projects examine interactions among
the characteristics of students, interpreters, and settings.
The project eventually led to the establishment of the
CERP and expansion of their activities.
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