[Blind-international-students] Blind-international-students Digest, Vol 11, Issue 1

Tue May 4 15:05:27 UTC 2010

My friend who went to Costa Rica attended Arkansas State University and went there as part of a study abroad group so I don't think it was at any university in Costa Ricka. I would still send a message to the NABS mailing list. I think sometime ago someone spent a summer in Spain but I am not sure who it is and how and where they went. I would also contact MIUSA to find out what resources are available for the blind or people with disabilities in the countries where you may be interesting in going.
Let us know if there is anything else we can do to help.

Anmol
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Hellen Keller

--- On Mon, 5/3/10, Salisbury, Justin Mark <JMS0529 at ecu.edu> wrote:

From: Salisbury, Justin Mark <JMS0529 at ecu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Blind-international-students] Blind-international-students Digest, Vol 11, Issue 1
To: "darocho at earthlink.net" <darocho at earthlink.net>, "Blind International Students Mailing List" <blind-international-students at nfbnet.org>
Date: Monday, May 3, 2010, 8:52 PM

Thank you, Anmol and David, for your responses.  I have thoroughly discussed my desires with our study abroad coordinators at my university.  Though East Carolina has partnerships with universities in many different countries, they haven't been very helpful in terms of helping me search and giving me advice about blindness in other countries.  All that I got from them is that I need to look at schools in England and Australia.  I am definitely interested in the countries that each of you named.  Would you mind finding out which universities your friends attended in these other countries and/or help me get in touch with them?  If you could, it would be a tremendous help to me so that I won't have to contact every individual school in these other countries.

Thank you!

Justin Salisbury

Justin M. Salisbury
Undergraduate Student
The University Honors Program
East Carolina University
jms0529 at ecu.edu

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I know blind students who have studied in Spain, Brazil and Argentina.
Although blind students face challenges just as sighted students face
studying abroad, most Western European countries and the three I just
mentioned are open to assisting you.  I would recommend that you find out if
your school has a working relationship with any colleges abroad.  That is
usually the best course to go.  If not, you might want to consider
transferring to a school with strong foreign study programs.  I would also
recommend that you focus more on what exactly you want to study, rather than
just focusing on the blindness angle.

David Arocho

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Hello,

I am an American student who just joined this list.  I want to study abroad,
but I need help finding the right country and school that will be able to
provide the right services for me.  I am studying Spanish, math, and
economics.  Does anybody have any countries or schools that they would like
to recommend to me?

The staff at my university are strictly warning me that other countries
rarely take care of their blind people.  I would like to believe that they
are wrong, so please give me any information that you have.

A Spanish-speaking country would be nice, but I really don't care where I go
as long as I can study abroad.

Thank you!

Justin Salisbury

Justin M. Salisbury
Undergraduate Student
The University Honors Program
East Carolina University
jms0529 at ecu.edu

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it."        -Aristotle

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