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Designing devices accessible to people with disabilities requires that engineers have an awareness not taught in typical engineering classes. This project offers engineering students an opportunity to apply their skills to real-world challenges for people with disabilities, with a focus on communication needs.
Goals:
• Build disability awareness within the engineering community
• Encourage engineering students to address the needs of people with disabilities
• Measure impact
Activities:
• Provide examples of engineering projects that met the needs of a person with disabilities
• Offer new project ideas
• Develop class support materials for students and professors
• Offer email engineering support to students undertaking projects
• Monitor website activity and develop surveys to assist in measuring impact
In this free webcast, Kevin Caves describes strategies he has used for adding projects for people with disabilities to engineering design classes.
The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Consortium on Communication Enhancement (AAC-RERC) is funded under grant #H133E080011 from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) in the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS).
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