Research List

From Accessibility for Children Community Group

Functional Needs

General

  1. (warning: layout creates an optical illusion effect) Children online: from findings to frameworks
  2. American Foundation for the Blind Announces Second Access and Engagement Report, Observing Continued Impact of COVID-19 on Students with Visual Impairments
  3. How Teens with Visual Impairments Take, Edit, and share photos
  4. Expanded Core Curriculum
  5. Frontiers AI Accessible and Inclusive Education

Related to Mental Health

  1. From the National (USA) Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments

Related to Dyslexia

  1. Texthelp CEO Martin McKay Talks Recent Dyslexia Study And ‘The State Of Learning’ For Students

Related to Blind and Low Vision Children

  1. (AFB) Inaccessible Ed Tech Is a Barrier to Digital Inclusion for Blind and Low Vision Students
  2. Vision Australia AT Survey

Reading Speed and Comprehension

  1. Capital Captions Closed Caption Guidelines
  2. Caption Key - Presentation Rate
  3. The effects of captions on L2 learners’ comprehension of vlogs
  4. Methods for Evaluation of Imperfect Captioning Tools by Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Users at Different Reading Literacy Levels

Low Resource Environments

  1. Five innovations to support inclusive education for children with disabilities in low-resource contexts

Multimodal perceptions (synesthesia)

  1. What is synesthesia?
  2. Statistics on synesthesia, projecting and associative synesthesia
  3. Prevalence of synesthesia in childhood
  4. Which synesthetic associations are predictable

AI (Artificial Intelligence)

  1. Policy Guidance on AI for Children: Pilot testing and case studies
  2. W3C Accessibility and AI Symposium

XR (Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality)

  1. Virtual Reality in the Classroom – IMISI 3D x UNICEF
  2. Literature review on the safety of domestic VR systems | UK | 2020
  3. Article from 2017 that summarizes information from headset manufacturers

VR in support of coordination skills

  1. Low vision simulation
  2. Young musicians

Research Gaps

  1. Suggestions for research gaps:
    1. Lack of research on the age when children can read captions