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Developing inclusive outreach activities for students with visual impairments

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Stephanie Ann Ludi,

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 40, Issue 1

Pages 439 - 443

https://doi.org/10.1145/1352322.1352285

Published: 12 March 2008 Publication History

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Despite advances in assistive technology, relatively few visually impaired students participate in university-level computing courses. Significant factors in this under representation include lack of relevant precollege preparation, lack of role models, access to resources, and the highly visual nature of modern computing. This paper describes the development of inclusive activities and materials for use in a summer workshop for precollege students with visual impairments. All activities utilized commercial technologies in the areas of robotics and programming using Lego Mindstorms NXT. The workshop activities are designed to provide a foundation in computing that encourages students to pursue computing in high school and beyond. In addition to activity design, initial results and lessons learned from the summer workshop will be presented.

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Developing inclusive outreach activities for students with visual impairments
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Collaborative learning
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
    2. Computing profession
      1. Assistive technologies
  2. User characteristics
    1. People with disabilities

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 40, Issue 1

SIGCSE 08

March 2008

549 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1352322

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SIGCSE '08: Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
March 2008
606 pages
ISBN:9781595937995
DOI:10.1145/1352135
General Chairs:
J. D. Dougherty
Haverford College
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Susan Rodger
Duke University
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Program Chairs:
Sue Fitzgerald
Metropolitan State University
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Mark Guzdial
Georgia Institute of Technology

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Mountapmbeme AOkafor OLudi S(2022)Addressing Accessibility Barriers in Programming for People with Visual Impairments: A Literature ReviewACM Transactions on Accessible Computing10.1145/350746915:1(1-26)Online publication date: 21-Mar-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3507469
Damasio Oliveira JCampos MStangherlin Machado Paixão-Cortes V(2020)Usable and Accessible Robot Programming System for People Who Are Visually ImpairedUniversal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design Approaches and Supporting Technologies10.1007/978-3-030-49282-3_32(445-464)Online publication date: 10-Jul-2020
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49282-3_32
Shelton C(2018)How Can We Make Computing Lessons More Inclusive?Tomorrow's Learning: Involving Everyone. Learning with and about Technologies and Computing10.1007/978-3-319-74310-3_51(506-514)Online publication date: 21-Jan-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74310-3_51
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