Mark Yannone - Arizona, District 3, 2004 Congressional Candidate, independent - click to return to home page
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"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."

Helen Keller
In September 1964, a Conference on Technical and Vocational Education for the Deaf was organized to gather information to present to Congress. The Senate and the House bills passed unanimously, and on June 8, 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed Public Law 89-36, establishing the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at a special ceremony in the White House Rose Garden.

In September 1966, RIT was chosen from among four competing universities as the host institution for NTID. Dr. D. Robert Frisina was selected as NTID's first vice president and organizing director. In September 1968, 71 of NTID's first students arrived and enrolled in RIT courses and programs.

By 1970, 24 of NTID's "charter class" students were approaching completion of their courses of study. NTID reaped benefits from RIT's cooperative work-study programs, a strategy that proved very helpful in leading to permanent employment for many students. Seventeen deaf students pioneered as the first in the nation to participate in a cooperative educational plan.

In 1981 the interpreting program became part of NTID's Communication Center. Both professional and student interpreters were employed to interpret in the classroom and to assist students with communication needs on campus. The interpreters were also instructors in manual communication for faculty, staff, and hearing students learning to communicate with deaf students. Ten NTID faculty also interpreted when needed.

NTID's third decade was marked by technological advancements, which led to increased computer based education throughout NTID's career programs. These include World Wide Web education, captioned visual media, computer databases and networks, real-time written interaction in classrooms, distance learning experiments, hypermedia, computer-aided speech-to-text captioning, interactive computer learning programs, and speech recognition.

Today, NTID is an evergrowing and changing community. Some of NTID's most recent projects include a multi-million dollar renovation of the dorms, and construction of the $2.7 million Dyer Arts Center. Along with these changes, NTID is working to enhance curriculum to best prepare our students for the future.

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