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9 Fast Facts: Students with Disabilities, National Center for Education Statistics
10 Opening the Door: Reducing Barriers to Post-Secondary Education in Canada, Standing Senate
Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology
11 National Center for Education Statistics
2. Higher Education
The number of university students with disabilities has doubled over
the past two decades,
9
and more than one in three adults
with disabilities has earned a college, bachelor's or graduate
degree.
1011
identify themselves as having
a disability
11
of post-
secondary
students
19%
Students today are well connected. They
use smartphones, tablets, laptops or all
three to access information. Like their
peers, students with disabilities turn to
the digital world to research their post-
secondary education options. Colleges
and universities that offer their prospective
and current students with disabilities the
tools they need to access the world-wide
web foster a more welcoming environment.
