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National Clearinghouse on Disability and Exchange Brochure

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This newly updated and enhanced, full-color brochure offers concise, easy to read, useful information about the National Clearinghouse on Disability & Exchange mission, services, publications and partners. To get your free brochures, contact the National Clearinghouse on Disability & Exchange at clearinghouse@miusa.org or Tel/TTY (541) 343-1284.

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National Clearinghouse on Disability & Exchange NCDE Brochure

Mobility International USA

 

What We Can Do for You

*Advice, Tips and Referrals

  • Choosing a program to go abroad or to come to the United States, problem-solving disability questions, connecting to resources

*Technical Assistance and Training

  • Consultation on participant issues, legal and policy information, outreach materials, and organizational strategies for inclusion
  • Building bridges between the international exchange and disability communities

Travel with a Purpose®

  • Volunteer
  • Study
  • Teach
  • Research
  • Intern

www.miusa.org

 

Challenge Yourself and Change the World®

Established in 1995, the goal of the National Clearinghouse on Disability and Exchange is to increase the participation of people with disabilities in the full range of international educational opportunities.

The National Clearinghouse on Disability and Exchange is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State and administered by Mobility International USA.

Since 1981, Mobility International USA (MIUSA), a nonprofit, cross-disability organization, has been serving those with cognitive, hearing, learning, psychiatric, physical, systemic, vision and other disabilities.

MIUSA is dedicated to empowering people with disabilities around the world through international exchange and international development.

Publications

*A Practice of Yes!

  • Working with Overseas Partners to Include Students with Disabilities - FREE

*A World Awaits You (AWAY)

  • Journals of Success in International Exchange for People with Disabilities – FREE online magazine

*Building Bridges

  • A Manual on Including People with Disabilities in International Exchange Programs - $24.95

*Preparing for an International Career

  • Pathways for People with Disabilities – FREE

*Rights and Responsibilities

  • A Guide to National and International Disability-related Laws for International Exchange Organizations and Participants – FREE

*Survival Strategies for Going Abroad

  • A Guide for People with Disabilities - $16.95
"I feel that my participation added perspective and diversity to our group dynamics. It was perhaps a more intense and broader experience for everyone involved to get to know someone with a disability as part of an exchange group." – Mike Meier, wheelchair user who studied in Spain

Discover a World of Opportunities

Go online for:

*Tipsheets and Accessibility Checklists

  • Guides on specific disabilities, making accommodations and traveling internationally with a disability

*Funding and Scholarships

  • Funding opportunities for specific disabilities, countries or interests

*Disability Organizations Worldwide

  • Searchable database of organizations from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

*Success Stories

  • Stories by and about people with disabilities who have successfully studied, volunteered researched, interned or worked abroad

www.miusa.org/ncde

 

Roundtable Consortium

The Roundtable Consortium is comprised of highly respected disability and exchange organizations that advise NCDE on needs and priories in the field.

AFS Intercultural Programs

Alliance for International Educational and Cultural Exchange

America-Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc.

American Association of People with Disabilities

Association on Higher Education And Disability

AYUSA Global Youth Exchange

Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and     Exchange

Council on International Educational Exchange

Council on Standards for International Educational Travel

Cross Cultural Solutions

Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund

Disabled Peoples' International

HEATH Resource Center

International Education and Resource Network

"Together, we can build a world of international exchange that is accessible to all – in which participants with diverse abilities are fully welcomed and engaged." – Peggy Blumenthal, Executive Vice President * C.O.O., Institute of International Education

Institute of International Education

International Volunteer Programs Association

NAFSA: Association of International Educators

National Council on Independent Living

National Council for International Visitors

National Youth Leadership Network

PACER Center

Partners of the Americas

Sister Cities International

SIT / World Learning

University of New Orleans - Training, Resource and Assistive Technology Center

United States Department of State - Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

World Institute on Disability

Youth for Understanding

 

Mobility International USA

132 E. Broadway, suite 343

Eugene, Oregon 97401 USA

Telephone/TTY: +1 (541) 343-1284

Fax: +1 (541) 343-6812

Email: clearinghouse@miusa.org

www.miusa.org

 

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