by
Anna Mogato
21 Jan 2020
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A growing body of research has shed light on the increasingly poor conditions faced by students with disabilities – an issue that schools, communities and governments are continuing to address by looking into how the education system can be made more equitable.
In the meantime, some experts are working to make school resources more accessible to students with disabilities.
In the US, the Universities of Birmingham, Towson and Puget Sound teamed up with the National Federation of the Blind to develop an online system which makes it easier to produce braille versions of textbooks – particularly maths and science textbooks – which are expensive as well as time-intensive to produce.
Towson Professor Emerita Martha Siegel, one of the academics who kickstarted the project, said they were aiming for “equity and equal access [...]