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At a recent event I attended, talk turned to how many young people with disabilities there are in the world and why aren’t more going abroad? And there are a lot of them, between 180 to 220 million by some estimates – enough to fill the entire country of Brazil, the world’s 5th most populous country. I polled my colleagues to ask how many of them had recruited a young person with a disability to study abroad. About 25 people raised their hands – almost half — and they applauded each other’s efforts. But I wasn’t cheering.