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Moving to Higher Education: Opportunities and Barriers Experienced by People with Disabilities

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In this chapter, we will examine how national initiatives have developed over recent decades and how they impacted on the participation of people with disabilities within HE. We contend that Initial access initiatives tended to focus on people from poorer socio-economic backgrounds and/or those from ethnic minorities. It was only at a later stage that children and young people with disabilities were given additional supports to enable their participation in educational settings and in particular HE

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  1. School of Education, Trinity College Dublin, Univeristy of Dublin,, Dublin, Ireland

    Michael Shevlin & Conor McGuckin

  2. School of Education, University of Northampton, Northampton, UK

    Sheena Bell

  3. Department of Special Needs and Inclusion, University of Northampton, Northampton, UK

    Cristina Devecchi

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Shevlin, M., McGuckin, C., Bell, S., Devecchi, C. (2017). Moving to Higher Education: Opportunities and Barriers Experienced by People with Disabilities. In: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56974-5_7

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