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AccessCSforAll: Increasing the Participation of Students with Disabilities in K-12 Computer Science Education

​AccessCSforAll is a Research-Practitioner Partnership that includes Code.org and schools nationwide, including those that serve students who are deaf, are blind, or have learning disabilities. Together they are creating and testing the effectiveness of an accessible version of AP Computer Science Principles. AccessCSforAll also partners with College Board to ensure that they are ready to fully accommodate students with disabilities in their testing.

How can you include individuals with disabilities in broadening participation activities for other underrepresented groups?

It is important for programs that serve to increase the participation of women, racial/ethnic minorities or other underrepresented groups in fields such as science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to be welcoming and accessible to students with disabilities. After all, there are people with disabilities within any of these underrepresented groups.

Programs can do a number of simple things to make their activities inviting and accessible to individuals with disabilities, such as those described below.

Increasing the Participation of Students with Disabilities in Exploring Computer Science and Computer Science Principles Courses (2015)

This CBI provided a forum for discussing recruitment and access challenges, sharing successful practices, developing collaborations, and identifying systemic change initiatives for increasing the participation of students with disabilities in ECS and CSP courses.

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