Alumni Experience

Here are some blogs and stories from alums and students to help give you a better understanding of what studying and education in France are like for people with disabilities.

MIUSA blogs:

The following people have traveled to France and wrote about their personal experiences regarding their disabilities.

• Loren, a Deaf person, traveled with an ASL interpreter who also spoke French

• Chris, who has Asperger's, traveled to Rennes with CIEE

• Kathryn, who has low vision and uses a white cane, traveled to both Norway and Paris

• Emma, a wheelchair user, traveled to Rennes to study and later to teach

• Allegra, who has polyarticular rheumatoid arthritis, traveled to French Guyana, Strasbourg and taught in France

Take your search even further on the MIUSA Resource Library page to hear about these alums' experiences in France and to read tips and advice from other alums who didn't travel to France. If you aren't sold on France just yet, you'll find some general articles on here that will still encourage you to go abroad.

Other testimonials:

Alums of a consortium program don't always disclose disabilities or may not have disabilities in common with you, but they still can be good resources to hear about their experience within the programs.

• CEA Study Abroad's alum experience

• Contact alums from IES Abroad

• USAC alumni blog posts and articles

• CIEE alumni blog posts and experiences (during and after their programs)

Visit the FEDEEH page to read témoinages d'étudiants handicapés en France (stories of French handicapped students). It's a great resource to read firsthand about the state of education from French students with disabilities.