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Profiles of Students with Disabilities in Computing Fields Richard Ladner University of Washington

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Page 1: Message Computing fields need more people with disabilities – They are underrepresented – Their expertise and perspectives spark innovation

Profiles of Students with Disabilities in Computing Fields

Richard LadnerUniversity of Washington

Page 2: Message Computing fields need more people with disabilities – They are underrepresented – Their expertise and perspectives spark innovation

Message

• Computing fields need more people with disabilities– They are underrepresented– Their expertise and perspectives spark

innovation

Page 3: Message Computing fields need more people with disabilities – They are underrepresented – Their expertise and perspectives spark innovation
Page 4: Message Computing fields need more people with disabilities – They are underrepresented – Their expertise and perspectives spark innovation

Choose Computing Profiles

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Page 5: Message Computing fields need more people with disabilities – They are underrepresented – Their expertise and perspectives spark innovation

Vincent• Blind• PhD student in HCI• Georgia Tech• Sonification Research• VP for the Georgia

Radio Reading Service

Page 6: Message Computing fields need more people with disabilities – They are underrepresented – Their expertise and perspectives spark innovation

Samuel

• Deaf• IT major• Rochester Institute of

Technology• CEO DeafTechNews LLC• Founder of

DeafCEOs.org

Page 7: Message Computing fields need more people with disabilities – They are underrepresented – Their expertise and perspectives spark innovation

Kavita

• Mobility• PhD student in CS• U. of Maryland,

Baltimore County• Human Robot

Interaction• Several publications

Page 8: Message Computing fields need more people with disabilities – They are underrepresented – Their expertise and perspectives spark innovation

Lewis

• Bipolar• PhD student in CS• U. of South Carolina• Quantum Computing

Page 9: Message Computing fields need more people with disabilities – They are underrepresented – Their expertise and perspectives spark innovation

John

• Mobility • PhD student in HCDE• U. Washington • NSF Graduate Fellow• Just published his first

paper

Page 10: Message Computing fields need more people with disabilities – They are underrepresented – Their expertise and perspectives spark innovation

Nicole

• Blind• Google developer• Stanford CS degree• Invented Nemetex

Page 11: Message Computing fields need more people with disabilities – They are underrepresented – Their expertise and perspectives spark innovation

Message

• Computing fields need more people like these– They are underrepresented– Their expertise and perspectives spark

innovation

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