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The purpose of this paper is to explore results from a qualitative study of how high school aged BLV youth used spatial language during a virtual engineering experience administered by the National Federation of the Blind (NFB). Findings from this study can provide recommendations to enhance language in curricula that better reflects BLV students' content and may ultimately encourage more BLV students to pursue careers in STEM fields.
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Proposing Accessible Line Standards for Tactile Drafting Accessibility for Blind and Low-Vision Students
This article presents tactile drafting techniques developed in collaboration with blind educators and students that have the potential to increase BLV students’ access to drafting and engineering graphic curriculum in K-12 and higher education. This work builds on previous work funded by the National Science Foundation (Goodridge et al., 2019; Ashby et al., 2018; Lopez et al., 2020; Goodridge et al., 2021a; Goodridge et al., 2021b) and it is the authors’ hope that some of the practices included herein will allow BLV youth to further develop technological and engineering literacy in related technology and engineering graphics courses.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1712887
- PAR ID:
- 10437061
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Technology and engineering teacher
- Volume:
- 82
- Issue:
- 7
- ISSN:
- 2158-0502
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 13-22
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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