ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the experience of students with disabilities, internationally, in higher education. It examines how higher institutions across the world respond to the needs of students with disabilities. International studies focusing on the experiences of students with disabilities in higher education have evolved in their focus. There is evidence of positive responses by higher education institution (HEI) to the needs of students with disabilities, especially from the UK literature. Across the globe, there are variations as well as similarities between and HEIs’ responses to disability issues and the experiences of students with disabilities in higher education. M. Fuller et al. noted that the voices of students with disabilities were missing from studies on widening access and participation in higher education. Literature shows positive responses by HEIs to disability matters; differences between and within HEIs in attending to the needs of students with disabilities; and absence or lack of embedding of disability issues in policies and practices in some cases.
