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Including blind and visually impaired students in the chemical sciences: establishing good practices

Biagini, Stefano C. G., Duncan, Nik, Watson, Ben (2020) Including blind and visually impaired students in the chemical sciences: establishing good practices. In: RSC Inclusion and Diversity Forum 2020, 8 Dec 2020, Online. (Unpublished) (KAR id:84837)

Abstract

Adopting basic principles of inclusive design for education will address many of the challenges faced by disabled students, including visually impaired individuals. We discuss Power Point use and show one method of making graphs and other visuals accessible to visually impaired students. Teaching laboratories remain a distinguishing feature in the study of the chemical sciences. In this presentation we show just one approach that can be easily adapted for many experiments to assist visually impaired individuals. We call on the community to create a toolbox of resources, adjustments and initiatives that can be readily shared globally to promote inclusive teaching of the chemical sciences.

Item Type: Conference or workshop item (Poster)
Projects: EDI Award
Subjects: Q Science > QD Chemistry
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Central Services > Student Support and Wellbeing
Funders: [UNSPECIFIED] Royal Society of Chemistry
Depositing User: Stefano Biagini
Date Deposited: 17 Dec 2020 18:47 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Feb 2021 14:17 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/84837 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

Biagini, Stefano C. G..

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4713-5127
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Duncan, Nik.

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Watson, Ben.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7728-1985
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