[Air-l] Request for information on international disabled students research

[Ken Friedman]

Dear Colleague,

Several members of this list work in the area
of communication and education for the disabled.

In the course of working with the disabled, you
may have come across material or information
that would help Ozcan Konur in his research.

If you work with your schools admissions policy
or you are involved with information for the
disabled, you may also be able to help him locate
resources.

If you can also pass this on to the appropriate
administrator at your school, it will also
be a great service to this project.

Ken Friedman


Request for information on research on access to international 
education by disabled international and home students

An interdisciplinary research project at City University, the United 
Kingdom, has looked into the legal and public policy issues in access 
to higher education by disabled students since October 1998. A 
research project has been set up since June 1999 at

http://www.student.city.ac.uk/~cx639/index.htm

and a work in progress research paper, [Konur, O. (2000) Creating 
enforceable civil rights for disabled students in higher education: 
an institutional theory perspective, Disability and Society 15(7), 
pp. 1041-1063, also online at

http://www.student.city.ac.uk/~cx639/dspaper.htm

published in December 2000 may give further information about the 
nature and scope of this research project. This project has been 
self-funded by the hearing-disabled and language-learning disabled 
researcher who has also been a disabled student for the past seven 
years.

This project has been extended to the research on access to 
international education by disabled international and home students. 
The expected outcome of the research would be publication of 
peer-reviewed papers and policy papers submitted to statutory bodies 
in the UK, Australia, Europe, and the US. It is also possible to 
publish an online resource directory at

http://www.student.city.ac.uk/~cx639/index

at the end of the project segment.

The information is respectfully requested on:

The case law on access to international education by students in 
general and by disabled students in particular

The peer-reviewed research papers on access to international 
education by students in general and by disabled students in 
particular

The policy papers on access to international education by students in 
general and by disabled students in particular

The service development project reports concerning access to 
international education by disabled students

The case studies on on access to international education by students 
in general and by disabled students in particular

The statistical information on access to international education by 
students in general and by disabled students in particular

The focus would be on the US, the UK, Australia, and Europe. It would 
cover the research on access to higher education in the host 
countries by disabled international students as well as the research 
on access to international education by the host country students.

The areas of research may include the funding mechanisms for the 
study related costs and disability-related costs, social security 
benefits, advisory support offered by the statutory and or voluntary 
bodies, access to local national public funding, the coverage of 
disabled international students by the host and or foreign country 
disability law, higher education law, and social and health service 
law.

Any help received for the project purposes would be publicly 
acknowledged. The expected life of this segment of the project is 
three months and it would be helpful to receive any such materials 
within one month from the date of this message.

Further enquiries would be welcome as well as any other support help 
and guidance.


Ozcan KONUR

Postal address:

Rehabilitation Resource Centre
Walmsley Building, Room W223
City University, Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom.

E-mail: okonur at hotmail.com

Research project URL: http://www.student.city.ac.uk/~cx639/index.htm

Phone: 020 7040 0271