Resources
Many useful resources of relevance in promoting the successful participation of individuals with disabilities in STEM academic programs and careers have been created with NSF funding. Below is a sample of current projects. To request to add a resource to the list send a message to doit@uw.edu.
Comprehensive Resources
- DO-IT Line Drawings, Collections, and Stickers
- Making Math, Science, and Technology Instruction Accessible to Students with Disabilities
- Pathways to Science
- Published Books and Articles About Universal Design in Higher Education (UDHE)
- STEM Resources for Teachers
Event Reports and Proceedings
- Capacity Building Institutes
- Understanding Interventions that Broaden Participation in Science Careers
Informal Science Education
- Facilitating Accessibility Reviews of Informal Science Education Facilities and Programs
- Informal Science Education Accessibility Review
- International Association for Geoscience Diversity
Making STEM Accessible to Students with Disabilities
- AccessCSforAll
- Accommodations for Fieldwork
- Accommodations for Science Labs
- Access2STEM
- Accessible Physics Concepts for Blind Students
- Broadening Participation in Science and Engineering by Welcoming Participants with Disabilities
- BRL: Braille Through Remote Learning
- Checklist for Making Computer Labs Accessible to Students with Disabilities
- Checklist for Making Science Labs Accessible to Students with Disabilities
- Deaf Educational Access for Computational Science
- Equal Access: Science and Students with Sensory Impairments (plus related video)
- Increasing the Participation of Students with Disabilities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: Lessons Learned and Resources from NSF's RDE Projects
- Making Science Labs Accessible to Students with Disabilities
- Making STEM Accessible to Postsecondary Students with Disabilities
- Returning from Service: College and Careers for Veterans with Disabilities (plus related video)
- STEM and People with Disabilities (video)
- Teach Access
- The Winning Equation: Access + Attitude = Success in Math and Science
- Working Together: Science Teachers and Students with Disabilities (plus related video)
Personal Stories
- Access to Advancement, Part 1 - five stories shed light on programs, practices, and tools designed to increase the participation of women with disabilities in STEM.
- DO-IT and AccessSTEM improve transitions to STEM education and careers.
- Entry Point! opens doors and launches women into STEM education programs and careers.
- Mind Alliance helping minority students with disabilities succeed in STEM.
- Sci-Vis makes space camp accessible to students with visual impairments.
- TechGirlz uses hands-on STEM activities to engage young girls who are deaf or hard of hearing.
- Access to Advancement, Part 2 - five women with disabilities share their experiences with the programs, practices, and tools featured in part 1, and discuss their achievements in STEM fields.
- AccessComputing Success Stories
- AccessSTEM Success Stories
- Bios of Students with Disabilities in Engineering Fields
- ChooseComputing
- Perspectives of STEM Students with Disabilities: Our Journeys, Communities, & Big Ideas
- White House Champions of Change
Q&As, Case Studies, and Promising Practices
- AccessSTEM Knowledge Base
- AccessComputing Promising Practices
- AccessComputing Replication Packages
- Increasing the Participation of Students with Disabilities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: Lessons Learned and Resources from NSF's RDE Projects
- Promising Practices That Engage People with Disabilities in the CNT
- Students with Disabilities Succeeding in Engineering Research Centers
Statistics and Research
- 2016 Report of the AccessSTEM/AccessComputing/DO-IT Longitudinal Transition Study (ALTS)
- STEM Presentation Evaluation Instruments
- A Program Director's Guide to Evaluating STEM Education Programs: Lessons Learned from Local, State, and National Initiatives
- The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
- U.S. Department of Education Research and Statistics
- Where can I find statistics about education and career attainment for individuals with disabilities?
- Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering
Universal Design
- Center for Universal Design
- Center for Universal Design in Education
- National Center on Universal Design for Learning
- Universal Design Applications in Biology Training Videos offers strategies for applying universal design of learning to biology instruction: