NTID Faculty Scholarship
Yearly listings of NTID scholarship ranging from published papers and books, creation of new digital products, to crafting artistic works and more
This site displays NTID faculty publications, presentations, projects, exhibits, performances, fellowships, and other scholarly work.
Scholarly work must be entered through the RIT Scholarship site which accepts submissions at select periods of time throughout the year. See instructions below. Following entry, information will be available after a short period of time on this site.
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 research, as well as special institutional research projects reflecting institute priorities and performance indicators from the Department of Education. As a result of the new priorities laid out in Strategic Decisions 2020, programmatic research projects will fall into five categories:
- Teaching and Learning
- Cognition and Language
- Communication
- Technology, Access, and Support Services
- Employment and Adaptability to Social Changes and the Global Workplace
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. The research publications that solicited input were NTID Research Bulletin, NTID Papers and Publications, and Implications of NTID Research.
NTID Research Centers
The National Technical Institute for the Deaf sponsors and encourages research designed to enhance the lives of deaf and hard-of-hearing people. Faculty at NTID work either on discipline-based research within their own academic departments, or come together in research centers and or labs to work on strategic research projects. Students are encouraged to actively partner with faculty on research projects of mutual interest.
Research and scholarship are organized into centers focusing on four strategic areas of proven success that will continue to be the focus of the future—teaching and learning; communication; technology, access and support services; and employment and adaptability to social changes and the global workplace.
NTID Center on Access Technology (CAT)
The NTID Center on Access Technology (CAT) is charged with investigating, evaluating and reporting on the most effective and efficient use of access technologies, and with training individuals in their use in order to accelerate the widespread implementation of best practices within deaf education at the postsecondary level.
NTID Center on Culture and Language
The mission of the NTID Center on Culture and Language is to conduct translational, transdisciplinary, and cross-institutional research on cognitive, linguistic, and socio-cultural factors to advance learning, well-being, and health. The Center strives to globally disseminate these discoveries and ultimately have a transformative impact on social structures, the deaf experience, and society as a whole.
NTID Center for Education Research Partnerships (CERP)
NTID’s Center for Education Research Partnerships (CERP) seeks to establish and join research partnerships concerning development and learning among deaf and hard-of-hearing students across the lifespan and in various educational settings.
NTID Research Center for Teaching and Learning
The primary mission of the Research Center for Teaching and Learning (RCfTL) is to create a setting in which diverse teams of faculty and students conduct research that will improve deaf education, expose students to research practices and prepare a future generation of educational researchers and scholars. A secondary mission is to facilitate the development of collaborative partnerships between RIT/NTID faculty and faculty in the other colleges of RIT who are focused on the education of deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
Center for International Educational Outreach
The mission of the Center for International Educational Outreach (CIEO) at NTID is to expend education opportunities for Deaf communities outside of the United States by collaborating with Deaf leaders and higher institutions of other countries to build center of excellence in Deaf education. CIEO works to expend research and collaboration opportunities between NTID and international institutions for the Deaf.
The Sensory, Perceptual, and Cognitive Ecology (SPaCE) Center
The Sensory, Perceptual, and Cognitive Ecology (SPaCE) Center is an active research center funded by grants from NIH and NSF. We study the sensory, perceptual and cognitive abilities of deaf individuals and how deaf people create deaf-friendly environments. Our guiding philosophy is that deaf individuals are not just passively transformed by their deafness; they also actively engage with and shape their environments.