NORTHRIDGE : Deafness Center at CSUN Wins Grant
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the National Center on Deafness at Cal State Northridge a $1-million grant to assist students who are deaf or hearing impaired.
The National Center on Deafness is a component of CSUN’s School of Communication, Health and Human Services.
The grant will cover instructional support services such as tutoring, note-taking and interpreting as well as enrichment classes and orientation for the 250 students at CSUN who are deaf and hearing-impaired.
“We can breathe a little easier,” said Nina Treiman, a counselor for the center.
CSUN was one of the first mainstream universities in the country to admit deaf and hard-of-hearing students, according to the center. In 1964, CSUN admitted two graduate students who were deaf. Today, CSUN has the largest enrollment of deaf and hearing-impaired students on a mainstream university campus.
The center has about 120 interpreters who assist students by taking notes, interpreting lectures and tutoring. In addition, the grant funds will augment the center’s outreach program. As one of five such centers in the country, the CSUN-based program serves as a model for other universities in the Southwest that are trying to develop similar programs.
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