The game of life workshop - Reaching out to high school students with disabilities

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  VanPeGrift, Tammy ^a   Burgstahler, Sheryl ^a,b   Ladner, Richard ^a,b,c   Poginy, Annemarie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c University of Washington ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; ENGINEERS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHOOL BUILDINGS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

AUDIENCES; COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; DATA COLLECTED;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85029068214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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