The Adaptech Research Network conducts research on obstacles and facilitators of academic success and on the use of information and communication technologies by Canadian college and university students with disabilities.
Ongoing Projects
- Accessibility Research 2023-2024
- Accessible General Use Technologies for Faculty 2023-2024
- Marginalization, Privilege, and Intersectionality in Post-Secondary Students with Disabilities: AI-Based Assistive Technology 2023-2024
- Parasomnias and other negative sleep-related phenomena among post-secondary students with and without disabilities 2023-2026
- Internship Toolkit for Students with Disabilities in Technical Programs 2022-2023
- Sleep quality and mental health among post-secondary populations with and without disabilities: Learning from the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic 2022-2025
- Work-Integrated Learning in Higher Education, Technology, Students with Disabilities 2022-2023
- Database of Free & Inexpensive Computer Technologies 1999-present
Completed Projects
- Teaching and learning in higher education in the era of COVID-19: A knowledge synthesis 2021-2022
- Transforming tech tools for success: Chrome and other browser extensions for post-secondary students with and without disabilities 2021-2022
- Mobile technologies for Quebec’s largest group of students with disabilities: Students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) 2020-2022
- How Can Virtual Assistants and AI-Based Smartphone Apps Help Post-Secondary Students with Disabilities Succeed in their Studies? 2020-2021
- E-Access Concordia Project 2020-2022
- Facilitators and barriers of technologies in accessing NEWLY online courses by post-secondary students with and without disabilities: The COVID-19 experience 2020-2021
- Mental Health Commission of Canada - Focus Groups 2019
- Smartphones, a neglected pedagogical tool 2019-2020
- Permettre aux conseillers des collèges et universités d’aider leur diplômés á trouver un emploi 2018
- Personal Technology in the Classroom 2018-2019
- Employment of Postsecondary Graduates with Disabilities 2017-2018
- Student and faculty perspectives on excellence in ICT and e-learning use in college 2017
- Myths and Realities of PowerPoint 2017
- Disabled students, ICT, post-compulsory education and employment: In search of new solutions 2016-2019
- Assist graduates with disabilities from a Quebec English language college or university find employment 2016
- Adaptech Research Network’s Free and/or Inexpensive Assistive Technology Database 2016
- Follow-up of Canadian college and university students with disabilities: 4 years later 2014
- Study on the Postsecondary Education Experience of Persons with Disabilities in Canada 2012
- Quebec Study on Information and Computer Technologies and Students with Learning Disabilities 2012
- Quebec Study Comparing the Satisfaction and Academic Success of College Students With and Without Disabilities 2011
- Use and Accessibility of Social Media by College and University Students with Disabilities 2010
- Predicting the At Risk Status of College Students: Males and Students With Disabilities 2009
- Development and Validation of the POSITIVES Scale (Postsecondary Information Technology Initiative Scale) 2009
- Registering for Disability Related Services and Academic Outcomes of College Graduates 2007
- Obstacles and Facilitators of Student Success: Cegep Students with Disabilities 2006
- Accessibility of eLearning in Postsecondary Education 2005
- Experiences of Students with Disabilities in the Cegeps 2003
- DSSFocus Study 2001
- Access to College for All - Computer and Information Technologies for Students with Disabilities 2000
- Learning Technologies and Students with Disabilities in Postsecondary Education 1999