Summit Research Laboratory has been
serving the community for the last 16 years. We grew our experience
in many projects that gave us deep knowledge in special education.
Here are some of our most
successful recent projects:
Summit-SIS Software is an integrated management information system
designed to track and report the discipline of students in regular
and special education programs, Title I programs or alternative
language programs. Summit is moving to a secure three-tiered
web-based system that will allow the interaction of the stand-alone
and web based components.
IDEA-SIS just released its
fourth version of the IDEA-SIS intelligent integrated management
information system developed for educators who serve students with
disabilities in schools served by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
This stand-alone software system is being deployed in most of the
185 such schools across the U.S..
Cultural Diversity Training Course-SRL
served on the University of Utah's advisory board during the
development of semester courses which focus on issues of cultural
diversity. The Cultural Diversity Training Course "Culture and
School Success: Educating American Indian Children" is now part of
the general requirements for all education majors and continues to
be offered at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Components
of the course have also been formatted so they can be presented in
workshops. The SR Director has been involved with the Multicultural
Student Services at Utah State University for the last 6 years.
NCHAM-SRL collaborates with USU and
the
National Center for Hearing
Assessment and Management (NCHAM)
to assist with screening, tracking and service coordination of all
babies born with hearing loss in Utah. Currently, SRL is working
with NCHAM and the Utah Department of Health to establish an
integrated database system to create a virtual healthcare profile
for every child that will allow real-time data sharing across
healthcare programs. The integrated system will avoid redundant
data entry, increase accountability, and reduce the fragmentation of
data and health care services.
Research Institute for Safe and
Effective Programs -SRL
created and maintains a web-based data collection and reporting
system that allows Utah educators to track and analyze incidents of
discipline referral, violence, and substance abuse in an accurate
and timely manner. SRL released an updated version of this system
that uses newly developed tools and allows the users greater access
to and control of data including a variety of new reporting formats.
NATF and NASC- The Director of SRL
has served on USU's Native American Task Force (NATF) and the
Native
American Student Council (NASC)
on campus for the past five years. To increase efforts to recruit
Native American students, SRL, is current working in a
video-conference project that will allow USU NASC students to
communicate with High Schools students living on Indian reservations
across the western United States.+
ANIDAR, Conference for Special Education in Argentina, SRL's Director participated as a consultant and main lecturer in the
first Conference for Special Education in Salta, Argentina, December
2000. The Director provided a four day
conference on Inclusion.
She consulted with students with disabilities, and their parents
and teachers. She also provided information at the local hospital,
medical doctors, schools principals, teachers and a deaf community
organization.
QUIRIZA, SERVICE PROJECT in
Bolivia. SRL's Director provided information about special
education with local leaders in Quiriza, Bolivia. She also
facilitated a relief service project, "Hands to Hands" that
connected two communities organization in Logan, Utah and village
leader of Quiriza, Bolivia, January 2001.
