Keep Calm and Study Abroad: Managing Mental Health 
Texas School Welcomes Blind Egyptian Student 
Providing a Confident Voice on Inclusion 
Working towards Disability Rights for Women and Girls in Amman, Jordan 
High School Exchange Students with Disabilities Leave their Mark Keep Calm and Study Abroad: Managing Mental Health 
How International Experiences Build Your Resume 
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 [...]
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 [...]
January 29, 2013
We were floating on the Dead Sea at sunset, covered in mud and sea salt. Some of us held others up, for those of us couldn’t float on our own. Some of us described the sunset over the water, for those of us who couldn’t see on our own. Our wheelchairs and white canes [...]
January 23, 2013
Last year , MIUSA nominated Teresa Pichardo for a Harris Wofford Global Service Fellowship. The fellowship provides funding for young people to volunteer abroad as citizen diplomats. Teresa, who is Deaf, will be volunteering in Ghana through Cross-Cultural Solutions. She plans to work at an orphanage and volunteering with the disability community there. We checked [...]
December 4, 2012
When Guida Leicester arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for a six week program through a FLAS Summer Fellowship, one thing quickly became apparent to her. “The staff and faculty had discussed what I could and could not do, but they had failed to include me in the conversation.” Guida, a graduate student who went [...]
November 15, 2012
According to the latest Open Doors Data, which tracks the number of students studying abroad between the United States and other countries, 4% of U.S. students who study abroad have disabilities (based on a fifth of all study abroad students reported in the survey for whom disability status is known). Considering that the World Health [...]
November 5, 2012
When Somaia came to the United States for a year of high school, she wanted to become more independent and learn about technology. Somaia, a blind woman from Egypt, had these opportunities and many more when she studied at a high school in Texas through the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange & Study Program. She learned to [...]
September 7, 2012
This summer, MIUSA had three superstar interns who played a big role in our inbound exchange programs while getting valuable experience working at a non-profit organization. Many of MIUSA’s current employees started as interns, and it’s a great way to get started with a career in international exchange, disability rights, or non-profit management. MIUSA also [...]
August 1, 2012
August is often the busiest month at MIUSA, and this August promises to be busier than ever, as our exchange team will be hosting 27 FLEX/YES high school exchange students and 27 WILD women from 27 countries. The 6th International Women’s Institute on Leadership and Disability (WILD) will bring together women with disabilities from Burundi [...]
