IBM has announced a program to give computer science majors the technical skills to develop or adapt computer programs for people with special needs.

Why? Well consider this…

“Between 750 million and 1 billion people have a speech, vision, mobility, hearing or cognitive disability, according to the World Health Organization. One-quarter of the U.S. population turn 55 by 2008, and about two-thirds will have a disability after turning 65, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The census and the American Association of People With Disabilities estimate that people with disabilities have a collective income of $1 trillion and control up to $10 trillion in financial assets.”

Read more at InformationWeek.com.