Higher Education Institutions and disability: a case study about university experiences of a student with motor disability

Abstract

The institutions of higher educations in Mexico have developed strategies for including students with disability in order to accomplish their education rights. In the year 2017, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (unam) became an example of an inclusive university after giving the first bachelors degree in Political Sciences and Public Administration to Matías Alanis who was born with cerebral palsy, and hearing and speech impairment. In this article, we will expose the experiences of a student with disability during his bachelors training. Through a structured interview to Matías and his mother Patricia, we expose the advantages and disadvantages of making use of methodologies and technologies implemented by the unam that procured the inclusion and culmination of the studies for the population of students with disability.