Student with Disability is Host Family’s Shining Star 
Keep Calm and Study Abroad: Managing Mental Health 
Texas School Welcomes Blind Egyptian Student 
Providing a Confident Voice on Inclusion Student with Disability is Host Family’s Shining Star 
Hit the International Hot Spots for Career Development 
High School Exchange Students with Disabilities Leave their Mark 
June 17, 2013
When Katharine Royal was five years old, she told her grandfather that one day she’d welcome a child from Africa into her life. Years later, her childhood dream came true as she and her husband opened their home to Stella, a high school exchange student from Kenya who has spina bifida and uses a wheelchair. [...]
June 6, 2013
Going abroad for career development should be on anyone’s radar, including people with disabilities. The “100,000 Strong in the Americas” initiative is designed to increase study abroad between the United States and other countries throughout the Americas and the Caribbean. Check out these hotspots in the Western Hemisphere for maximizing professional opportunities both abroad and [...]
May 22, 2013
Accomplishments from coast to coast! Congratulations to all of the high school exchange students with disabilities who traveled thousands of miles from home to learn, grow, share and contribute in American host communities this year. You now join an active network of alumni of State Department-sponsored youth programs, alumni working towards positive social change, including [...]
May 9, 2013
Worried about being far away from your family? Getting lost abroad? Bringing enough medications? Going abroad on an organized program where there is study abroad staff or faculty, and other exchange students around, can be a big comfort in knowing you don’t have to figure out tough situations that come up abroad alone. “Learning to [...]
April 18, 2013
Rob Hurtekant knew he wanted to study abroad in Africa, but he wasn’t sure where. He narrowed his options down to two choices: Dakar, Senegal, and Cape Town, South Africa. Rob, who uses a wheelchair, ultimately decided to study abroad in Cape Town for accessibility reasons. “I believe serendipity was at work, because the five [...]
April 2, 2013
Anne Reuss is a social media consultant who describes herself as “fearless.” Anne, who is Deaf, developed her fearlessness, along with her confidence, while studying abroad in Verona, Italy. She says that “[going abroad] made me fearless to connect with people.” While in Verona, Anne took classes in photography, Italian, art history and painting. She [...]
March 20, 2013
Going abroad can be a transformative experience for people with disabilities. In addition to the opportunity to explore different cultures and languages, going overseas can provide tremendous insight into what we hope to do with our lives, including clarity about our career paths. Daniel Erchick, who was born with one arm, realized that he wanted [...]
March 8, 2013
For International Women’s Day, MIUSA recognizes and celebrates all women leaders with disabilities around the world who are revolutionizing the status of women and girls worldwide. View some of these amazing women in this slideshow. Be part of the revolution! Your donation supports our upcoming women with disabilities projects, including the Women’s Institute on Leadership [...]
March 1, 2013
When Stan Sowers, the principal of Eustace High School, learned that a blind exchange student would be spending a year at his school, he was apprehensive. His first thought was, “Oh, my goodness, why would we want to take on something like that, you know?” His school had fewer than four hundred students and he’d [...]
February 13, 2013
Have you noticed how disability organizations have changed in the past decades? In the past, if someone with a disability wanted an opportunity to do sports, art, education, or travel, then they found a disability organization that offered such a program. The programs that their non-disabled peers were participating in offered more options, but they [...]
