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Disabled Students - Supplemental Sources of Financial Aid
Each listing has its own criteria but deadline dates, selection conditions, application processes, and other details change more quickly than we can update this page. Please contact each individual source for complete, up-to-date details.
Scholarship Office
1155 15th Street NW, Suite 720
Washington, D.C. 20005
800.424.8666
info@acb.org
The American Council of the Blind (ACB) annually awards approximately 20 scholarships ranging in amounts from $1,000 to $2,500 to students who are legally blind, maintain a 3.3 GPA and are involved in their school/local community.
Deadline: March 1
Scholarship Committee
ATTN: Associate Director of Program Services
11 Penn Plaza, Suite 300
New York, NY 10001
212.502.7661
afbinfo@afb.net
A variety of scholarships are available to students who are declared legally blind in both eyes. Only one application needs to be submitted for all scholarships.
Deadline: April 30
Scholarship Awards Committee
3417 Volta Place NW
Washington, D.C. 20007
Tel: 202.337.5220
TTY: 202.337.5221
info@agbell.org
Applicants must have been diagnosed with a moderate to profound hearing loss prior to acquiring spoken lanuage. Applicant's hearing loss must be bilateral and in the moderate to profound range. Applicants must be accepted at or enrolled in an accredited law school or masters/doctoral program in public policy or public administration as a full-time graduate student.
Deadline: April 14
P.O. Box 30652
Lansing, MI 48909
Tel: 800.292.4200
TTY: 888.864.1212
Scholarships are available for blind students with visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with correction or a limitation of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angular distance of not greater than 20 degrees.
Deadline: Contact Michigan Commission for the Blind
NFB Scholarship Program
200 East Wells St.
Baltimore, MD 21230
410.659.9314
scholarships@nfb.org
Each year the National Federation of the Blind gives a broad array of scholarships to recognize achievement by blind scholars. All applicants for these scholarships must be (1) legally blind and (2) pursuing or planning to pursue a postsecondary course of study in a degree program at a U.S. institution in the fall of the year of application. All scholarships are awarded on the basis of academic excellence, service to the community, and financial need.
Deadline: March 31
G-664 Haven Hall
505 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045
734.763.3000
ssdoffice@umich.edu
A variety of scholarships are available to current University of Michigan students with disabilities who register with the Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) office. Students will receive information as long as they are registered. Scholarships are not restricted by type of disability, and as such are also available to students with "non-physical" disabilities such as learning disabilities.
Federal Student Aid Information Center
P.O. Box 84
Washington, DC 20044
800.433.3243
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Federal Student Aid offers two free cassette recordings giving information on post-secondary student financial aid for visually impaired students. Contact the DOE for free cassettes.
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