Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Introducing Chauncy Rucker
Chauncy taught special education at the University of Connecticut for 30 years, retiring in 1997. He became seriously involved in assistive technology in 1982 through the Dadealus, a funded research project in which a group of youngsters with cerebral palsy at a summer camp were sent home with Apple computers. The gains the students made in writing via the internet were so dramatic that Chauncy was hooked from then on.
In 1983 he began publishing the ConnSENSE Bulletin as a print resource on AT. It became an online AT resource in 2001. He began the UConn graduate emphasis in assistive technology in 1993.
In retirement Chauncy remains active as publisher of the ConnSENSE Bulletin website and ConnSENSE Letter and co-chair of the Technology Desk of DISES, the international division of CEC. He also enjoys travel, building boats, and sailing. He will be serving as an embedded journalist on the CITTI adventure in Ecuador.
