Housing and transport: access issues for disabled international students in British universities

Soorenian, Armineh

doi:10.1080/09687599.2012.758033

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“…and we managed' (SZ3 in Strnadová, Hájková, and Květoňová 2012). This experience with issues relating to university accommodation was also mentioned in a study with 30 international students with disabilities conducted in British universities by Soorenian (2013).…”

Section: Institutional Barriersmentioning

confidence: 77%

Voices of university students with disabilities: inclusive education on the tertiary level – a reality or a distant dream?

Strnadová

Hájková

Květoňová

2015

International Journal of Inclusive Education

104

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Twenty-four university students with disabilities were interviewed about their experiences studying at Czech universities. The interviews were analysed using the grounded theory approach. The most commonly experienced barriers faced by these students were institutional barriers, attitudinal barriers, and disabilityspecific barriers. The types of support mentioned by the students included family support, peer support, and support provided by assistants. The participants also shared strategies they used to deal with the barriers they faced. These were assertiveness, self-determination, metacognition, efforts to 'fit in', optimism, and career planning. The implications for policy and universities are discussed.

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Section: Institutional Barriersmentioning

confidence: 77%

Voices of university students with disabilities: inclusive education on the tertiary level – a reality or a distant dream?

Strnadová

Hájková

Květoňová

2015

International Journal of Inclusive Education

104

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“…Moreover, kind of disability was strong variable in its effect on environmental and health aspects. The result revealed that physically disabled students had more satisfaction than deaf and visual disabled students, this result may be due to that physically disabled students have more access to deal with the sources and technology such as housing and transportations more than other disabilities as reported (Soorenian, 2013).…”

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confidence: 85%

“…Soorenian (2013) reported that housing and transport (environment) as the main sources of dissatisfaction of students with disabilities in university life, and these are problems that effect negatively on their academic achievement and satisfaction in England. While Brandt (2013) reported that higher educational system in Norway is playing a significant positive role in encouraging disabled students to enroll and achieve more, therefore more satisfaction in all aspects of life.…”

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confidence: 99%

Students with disabilities’ satisfaction with their universities’ services

Simadi

Al-Qaryouti

2017

IJHRH

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the satisfaction aspects among disabled students in some universities in the Middle East and to examine the impact of socio-demographic factors on such satisfaction with regard to the services provided by their universities. Design/methodology/approach The sample consisted of 251 subjects from Oman, Qatar, Jordan and Yemen. Comparative means were used to examine the importance of satisfaction aspects and analysis of variance (ANOVA) as well as multi-analysis of variance (MANOVA) were used to examine the role of the socio-demographic factors in explaining the disabled students’ satisfaction. Satisfaction aspects included: social, psychological, educational, environmental and health, while the socio-demographic variables included were: country, specialization, kind of disability, gender GPA and degree of disability. Findings The findings revealed that social satisfaction was the greatest, followed by psychological, educational, environmental and health satisfaction in order. The results of the ANOVA revealed that all socio-demographic factors impacted significantly on the satisfaction of disabled students, except gender and the degree of disability. While, the MANOVA findings reported that Jordanian and Qatari students had higher educational and psychological satisfaction than Omani and Yemeni students. Research limitations/implications The present findings can be considered as limited and hard to generalize on all regions’ universities because the gap between them in disability services is very large. Some of universities have very good services, while the disability services of other universities are very limited or not existed. Practical implications The findings will be helping the educators and administrative people to offer more services to disabled students. Originality/value This is the first comparative study in the Middle East area.

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“…This difficulties often prevents tourists with access needs, especially PwD to stay at home or rely on their peers or families to provide transportations that meets with their needs. Other option of public transportations, such as taxi, might be able to answer the needs of transportation yet often avoided by PwD due to its unreliability and higher costs (Soorenian, 2013). Transportation available for people with access needs are often viewed as "special services" thus resulted in segragration between PwD and able-bodies users, and in most cases resulted in higher costs to provide those "special services".…”

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confidence: 99%

Autoethnographic Tourism Experience of Wheelchair User in Bali, Indonesia

Zobritania,

Widadsyah

2023

IJDS

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This research presents autoethnography study of a wheelchair-users named Zo during her journey in Bali, Indonesia. Her documentations and field notes are analyzed in four main themes: information accessibility, public facilities accessibility, destinations accessibility as well as cultural and social issues. This research provides personal deeply personal view on her experience, her way to adapt with accessibility issues, as well as multiple accessibility issues that needs to be improved to ensure that all travelers are able to enjoy Bali.

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Housing and transport: access issues for disabled international students in British universities

Cited by 13 publications

References 9 publications

Voices of university students with disabilities: inclusive education on the tertiary level – a reality or a distant dream?

Voices of university students with disabilities: inclusive education on the tertiary level – a reality or a distant dream?

Students with disabilities’ satisfaction with their universities’ services

Autoethnographic Tourism Experience of Wheelchair User in Bali, Indonesia

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