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Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Computing


June 27, 2013

Competitive STEM program at UW targets deaf, hard of hearing students

Teaching assistant works with student.

The Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Computing at the University of Washington is the only program of its kind in the nation that offers a full quarter of academic credit to incoming college students or those who just finished their first year.


August 19, 2010

Deaf, hard-of-hearing students do first test of sign language by cell phone

Person signing at smartphone

Editor’s note: Each year the summer academy hosts a premier of the students’ animated short films.


August 2, 2007

New Computer Science academy welcomes hearing-impaired students

Richard Ladner and students

History shows many deaf artists and inventors, including Thomas Edison and Ludwig van Beethoven.