Keep Calm and Study Abroad: Managing Mental Health 
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Build Your Confidence by Going Abroad 
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 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 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 [...]
January 3, 2013
Emily Block has a chronic health disability, but it hasn’t stopped her from traveling around the world. Once, international experiences seemed out of reach for her. “Fourteen countries later, I know that being disabled doesn’t mean I have to give up on my dreams,” she says. Through her blog, Chronic Adventures, Block talks about her [...]
December 17, 2012
What’s the biggest obstacle for many people with disabilities when it comes to going abroad? The price tag. That’s why we recently held a free webinar on “Funding for Americans with Disabilities Going Abroad.” The captioned webinar, tailored for a US audience, shared top scholarships and funded programs for going abroad, and introduced past recipients [...]
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 [...]
