An online searchable version of the Institute of International Education's Intensive English USA publication lists English language programs across the United States. Also find out about earning an English language certificate at Language Learning website.

Get Going!

A lot of information and resources exist to help you plan your experience.  Start with the finding a program in the online databases listed above and learning about disability-related issues in the United States on the Opportunities in the U.S. page. Then browse flight rates and booking, research disability organizations, and network with others who have participated in international exchange in the United States and who have disabilities.

Read information from students with disabilities attending the American English Institute in Eugene, Oregon, USA or other stories in our A World Awaits You journal ("Accessing Foreign Languages" issue).

Note any helpful resources and record any advice you would pass on to others considering exchange programs in the U.S.  Once you find the program and location that feels right for you, we wish you the best here in the United States!  Remember to share your story with us along the way.  Your advice and experience may motivate others to follow in your footsteps!  If you would like to talk to us about publishing your story or blog on our website, please contact us at clearinghouse@miusa.org. 

Online Support for English Learning

If you want to start learning English before you leave home or want to continue learning English after you return home, here are some free resources to practice your skills and increase your knowledge of the English language.

This website, available in English and Spanish, offers free grammar help, language lessons, reading comprehension tests, a forum, and more.

ASLPro

This American Sign Language (ASL) site was created to be a free resource for the classroom teacher. Other resources available at ASLPro include video dictionaries, vocabulary grouped by function, mouth morphemes, and ASL poems and songs. Although ASL is a separate language from English, it is widely used by Deaf Americans in the United States.

Daily English Activities

This Internet site is for EFL & ESL students. Each day you can find a new simple online activity to help you improve your English.

The English Daily Website

This website includes TOEFL vocabulary practice, grammar lessons and exercises, transcripts from movies, ear training, and sections on slang, idioms, and proverbs.

ESL Resource Center

Lessons and exercises, resources and links, and information and tools for learners and teachers of English.

in2english

This is a free, interactive English Learning website for Chinese professionals, teachers, parents and their children. It provides help with English study, IELTS tests and studying abroad. Online English language units improve English speaking, listening, writing and communication skills. The site also uses English games, music, stories and activities for Business, Working, Teaching and Living.

Thanks to CALAS InterCOM e-newsletters at the University of Oregon for these resources.