Helping him see: guiding a visually impaired student through the computer science curriculum
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In this paper, we describe some of the challenges of teaching computer science to a visually impaired student along with suggested solutions for these challenges. We include perspectives of both professors and a severely visually impaired student.
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Three of the papers with disabled participants featured disabled author-participants.
“Three of these papers even featured disabled author-participants, with blind students [5, 17] and a blind CS professional [47].”
From Where are the Disabled Students?: A Literature Review of Disability Inclusion in Computing Education Research (2026) · cites this paper as [17]
Five papers involved disabled participants directly, with one paper featuring a disabled student co-author, and two papers featured teachers' descriptions of the experiences of disabled students.
“Five papers involved disabled participants directly, with one paper featuring a disabled student co-author [17], and two papers featured teachers' descriptions of the experiences of disabled students.”
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- Authors
- Califf, M. E., Goodwin, M. M., & Brownell, J.
- Affiliations
- Illinois State University (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2008-03-12
- Pages
- 444-448
- OpenAlex
- W2058741558
- Cited by
- 12
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 3.77
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Disability Education and Employment
- Social Sciences › Human Factors and Ergonomics › Digital Accessibility for Disabilities
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Teaching and Learning Programming
- Keywords
- visually impaired students, computer science education, accessibility, assistive technology, educational challenges, student perceptions
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