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 James DeCaro
Senior Research Professor

Fields of Expertise:
Deaf Issues > Education
Deaf Issues > General Deaf Issues
Deaf Issues > Research

Dept/Division: National Technical Institute for the Deaf
E-Mail:
News Contact: Greg Livadas, Greg.Livadas@rit.edu, 585-475-6217 (V/TTY)
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James J. DeCaro is a former dean for NTID, a post he held for 14 academic years. He is director of the Postsecondary Education Network International (PEN-International), a multi-million dollar collaborative network of universities around the world that educates students who are deaf.

DeCaro is an Honorary Professor at Tinajin University of Technology (China) and holds an Honorary Doctoral Degree from Bauman Moscow State Technical University in Russia. In 2003, he received the HaiHe Award of Honour for outstanding service to better the circumstances of the people of Tianjin, China.

DeCaro holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in civil engineering and a Ph.D. in educational technology from Syracuse University. He has worked at the university level in the deafness field since 1971.

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 Linda Siple
Professor, ASL and Interpreting Education

Fields of Expertise:
Deaf Issues > Education
Deaf Issues > Sign Language

Dept/Division: National Technical Institute for the Deaf
E-Mail:
News Contact: Greg Livadas, Greg.Livadas@rit.edu, 585-475-6217 (V/TTY)
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Published in the areas of interpreting and deaf culture, Linda Siple has been a sign language interpreter for more than 30 years, and has taught interpreting for more than 25 years. She is engaged in research addressing the communication challenges that face deaf students in college classrooms. Siple completed her MS in Curriculum Development at Rochester Institute of Technology, and earned her Ph.D. at the State University of New York in Buffalo. Her doctoral dissertation explored the various aspects of English and ASL aspects that influence interpreting in a college classroom.