Computer Science Professor Richard Ladner interacts with Summer Academy students

Summer Academy Sponsors

The Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf & Hard of Hearing in Computing is sponsored by the Alliance for Access to Computing Careers (AccessComputing), a project led by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering and DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology) at the University of Washington.

Funding is provided by the National Science Foundation (CISE BPC award #CNS-0540615, CNS-0837508, and CNS-1042260), with additional funding from the following organizations:

  • Johnson Scholarship Foundation
  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Google

Collaborating Partners

  • Gallaudet University
  • Rochester Institute of Technology (B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing & Information Sciences, and National Technical Institute of the Deaf)
  • Microsoft Corporation
  • NSF Regional Alliances for Persons with Disabilities in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
  • ACM Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing (SIGACCESS)