Identifying Programming Skills Impacted in Students with Cognitive Disabilities

This Full Research Paper aims to identify and compare the skills involved in learning programming and the difficulties that students with cognitive disabilities may face, discussing the impacts generated by these skills for these students. Several studies talk about what skills a person needs to learn to program. However, we do not have enough to consider the needs of students with disabilities, especially cognitive impairments. Did we conduct a study to answer the following research questions: RQ1 - What skills are involved in programming teaching? RQ2 -Can cognitive impairments affect the skills needed to program? We lift the part the skills involved in learning programming and the cognitive skills impediments in the literature. Finally, we made a critical analysis impact on that audience. By cross-referencing this information, we can highlight that the skills needed to program impact students with cognitive impairments such as math, logic, and problem-solving. This impact does not necessarily mean that these students cannot learn to program. We believe adapting materials, exercises and assessments can foster learning for this audience.