Georgiana Costin
…psychology, sleep as well as disability and hopes to pursue a career in mental health. Georgiana will be supervised by Dr. Fichten for her Honours research thesis while working on…
Experiences of Students with Disabilities in the Cegeps
a case study of Dawson College we conducted 12-year archival investigation of these questions. The transcripts of 653 students who were registered with the Services for Students with Disabilities office…
November 2013 – New project! Follow-up of Canadian college and university students with disabilities: 4 years later
We contacted students who participated in a previous study and asked follow-up questions on their academic status or employment situation. Take a look at the project description for more information….
Winners of an Android Tablet: Mathieu Marcotte and Morgane Laurent!
Two lucky student participants in Adaptech’s follow-up study, focusing on the impact of COVID-19 on the use of technology in postsecondary education, were the winners of an Android tablet. Congratulations…
College exit grades and academic experiences: 2007 Findings
We recently completed an archival study looking at the relationship between standardized grades of 9406 recent Dawson College graduates with and without disabilities and their perceptions of academic obstacles and…
Personal Technology in the Classroom
The goal of this study was to understand the perspectives of students, faculty and professionals about the use of students’ personal mobile technologies in postsecondary classrooms. To understand the views…
October 2018 РDaphn̩ Giguere-Bosse is the winner of the ASUS ZenPad 8.0
is the lucky winner of ASUS ZenPad 8.0. Her name was pulled from among those participants who completed the employment questionnaire for a study conducted by the Adaptech Research Network….
Use and Accessibility of Social Media by College and University Students with Disabilities
The Adaptech Research Network, in partnership with the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS), has completed a national study examining the use and accessibility of social media by college…
Samantha Wing
Samantha Wing, born and raised in Vancouver, BC, is a fourth year Undergraduate student at McGill majoring in Cognitive Science. Dr. Fichten is supervising her Honors research project over the…
Universal Reader Mac
Universal Reader Mac is a screen reader that can be used with lots of different applications. It can read your email, web pages, Word files, and more with a simple…