CHAPTER 9: Cooperative Online Research Meetings of Cerebral Palsy and Graduate Students to Promote Web Accessibility

This chapter presents a collaboration between postgraduate students, many already employed as teachers in schools in Israel while also studying in an Educational Technology M.Ed. program, and young adult pupils (aged 19–21) with cerebral palsy (CP) studying in a special-education school. The initiative began in 2011 as an “Assistive Technologies for Students with Special Needs” postgraduate course, which included cooperative-learning groups (postgraduate students and pupils with CP) centered on the issue of web accessibility. Most of the contact between students and pupils was conducted online via Facebook, with two additional faceto-face meetings. One meeting was held at the Kibbutzim College of Education in Tel Aviv, Israel, and the second at the special-education school.