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IIT Delhi alumnus develops a low-cost audio-tactile technology-based device that helps visually impaired kids comprehend real-life images

A visually impaired student experiments with TouchVision’s Multi-sensory learning kit

How often we have wondered if people with visual impairment could actually perceive the images we see? Well, the good news is that there is now a solution. Comprising of a portable stand, a tactile book and a mobile app – a ready to use solution by TouchVision, an IIT Delhi incubated social enterprise is […]

Karen Braitmayer: Yes, People with Disabilities as Architects

Creative Crews Clads Classroom with Interactive Braille Walls in a Thai School

children on the balcony: learning through play

Bangkok based architecture firm creative crews, renovated the pattaya redemptorist school for the blind. the client’s social responsibility plan asked the firm to develop aid for children with disabilities, tackling issues of visual impairment within the thai society.

‘In Our Shoes’ Design Thinking Workshop for Honors Students Highlights Inclusive Design

Kyra Vreeland, an architecture student, photographs a pair of shoes as part of the design thinking workshop for honors students, led by Beth Tauke and held in February on the U of A campus.

University of Arkansas honors students in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design spent a recent Sunday grappling with issues of diversity, inclusiveness and design on campus.

Disabled in Graduate School: History and Progress

Disability Rights The final frontier tee shirt

This post is part of a (somewhat loose) series about being disabled at university, with a focus on graduate school: problems we encounter, how we deal with them, and what you can do that will make things easier for fellow graduate students with disabilities.

Day-to-day life differs for those with disabilities at the University

Geography undergraduate student Cole Anderson poses for a portrait in the skyway between Blegen Hall and the Social Sciences Building on Thursday, April 18. Anderson's geography classes are in Blegen Hall and his advisor's office is in the Social Sciences Building, but he can't use the skyway because there aren't automated push plates to open the doors.

While advocates have made progress, some students feel the University still isn’t equipped to support their needs.

How to Make Design Thinking More Disability Inclusive

A Design the Future Team prototypes their final design project

A three-tiered framework for making human-centered design more inclusive of people with disabilities can help organizations improve their own programs.

Office of Inclusive Design will provide resources for campus-wide accessibility issues

illustration of three buildings, and a wheelchair sitting in front of steps.

With the development of the OID, students will have more resources to learn about, provide, and acquire accessibility on campus. In addition, the creation of the OID will allow the SDC to concentrate on aiding students with disabilities in their successful completion of their desired degree.

How to Design a Better City for Deaf People

The campus of Gallaudet University is shown on Monday, May 8, 2006 in Washington. The newly chosen president of Gallaudet University, the nation's only liberal arts college for the deaf, faced student protests and a possible faculty no-confidence vote Monday in a dispute that she said comes down to whether she is "deaf enough" for the job.

Lighting, sound-deflecting surfaces, big spaces—all of these elements can influence a deaf person’s ability to communicate. DeafSpace design considers it all.

Demanding accessibility at BU

Illustration of figures on a platform, with healthcare, offices and other professionals on another platform, showing no accessibility to services

For students with disabilities at Binghamton University, navigating college both inside and outside the classroom is no small task.

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