The Living Schoolbook

Current Graduate Program: Cultural Foundations of Education with a focus on Disability Studies
Position at the LSB: Graduate Assistant - Help Desk Staff and Assistive Technologies Center
jsinecka@syr.edu

She works as a GA for the Assistive Technologies Center trying to integrate the use of assistive technologies for children and students with disabilities into K-12 classrooms. She also works at the LSB Help Desk to provide quality assurance for the Dialogue Project and to help students seeking out advise. Her work is supervised by Prof. Julie Causton-Theoharis who she co-operate with on other issues related to ATs, inclusive education, disability et cetera. Within the ATRC, she is involved in coordinating and supporting technology integration into the undergraduate and graduate level K-12 and K-6 preparation programs. her role further consists of maintaining the AT Library and Resource Center including communication devices, software, switches and other technologies and devices. She is also engaged in training professors and pre-service teachers in the various preparation programs in the department of Teaching and Leadership. With a new program in the fall 2005, her group tries to reach out to the broader community of Syracuse teachers and provide them with knowledge about IT as well as assistive technologies. She seeks out professors and asks to present in their classes to create an awareness of technology available for students with disabilities in placements and to create an awareness of our ATRC.

She currently is a second year Ph.D. student in Cultural Foundations of Education with a focus on Disability Studies, and a Fulbright scholar coming from the Czech Republic. Her background is in anthropology and public and social and public policy (she received two Master's degrees from the Charles University, Prague). She is interested in Deaf culture and comparative international disability law and policy.