As a blind undergraduate studying psychology and trying to accumulate research participation hours, Nazanin Heydarian found that most studies either excluded her as a disabled student or were unwelcoming. She remembers showing up for a study and awkwardly rearranging the computer monitor and keyboard to accommodate her own usable vision while the research assistants watched without knowing what to do.
Heydarian, who is now a post-doctoral fellow at the Steve Hicks School, shares resources to enhance the accessibility of research for disabled participants in the October issue of the Observer Magazine.