Scholarships for People With Dyslexia – The whole process of college education is pretty hard, especially because the cost of higher education has never been cheap. What’s more, the college education process is also quite demanding, especially for people with learning disabilities such as dyslexia.
Fortunately, there are help available from various organizations or foundations. The financial assistance for people with dyslexia may come in the form of scholarships that can help these dyslexia students in covering the college tuition or other education-related expenses. You may still have to overcome the problem with dyslexia, but at least your family’s financial situation receives the needed help.
Below are some of the scholarships for people with learning disabilities, including dyslexia. It is important to remember that you need to have a proper documentation about your dyslexia or other learning disabilities from medical officials.
Some of the Scholarships for People With Dyslexia
Anne Ford Scholarships
This highly competitive scholarship awards is provided by the National Center for Learning Disabilities. To apply, you need to contact the National Center for Learning Disabilities office or through their website to learn more about the award. Scholarship awardees will receive $2,500 each year for up to four years (with renewable methods). This scholarship program is available for all students across United States attending college.
Allegra Ford Thomas
If you are on vocational schools, community college or learning in a specialized program for students with learning disabilities, you should apply for the Allegra Ford Thomas scholarship. This one is also administered by the National Center for Learning Disabilities. The difference between this scholarship and the Anne Ford scholarship is the target audience and also the award amount. Allegra Ford Thomas scholarship is a one-time $2,500 scholarship.
Rise Scholarship Foundation – http://risescholarshipfoundation.org/
There are several scholarship awards available from this foundation every year. The scholarships are available for high school senior who are going to college. You can check out the application and the complete eligibility requirements at their website. Last year, the deadline was at February 15 and scholarships awardees received $2,500 each. The foundation is also a great source of information available for students with learning disabilities.
Marion Huber Learning Through Listening Awards – https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/scholarships/marion-huber-learning-through-listening-award
This scholarship is aimed for students who are diagnosed with dyslexia or blindness that prevent them from reading easily. Administered by Learning Ally (http://www.learningally.org/), there were three $6,000 scholarships and three $2,000 scholarships last year. Note that you need to be the Learning Ally member and have at least a 3.0 average grade to be eligible for the award.
Other Scholarships
There are several other scholarships available for students with dyslexia. For example, low-income students who are planning to go to visual arts field in college may be eligible for a $1,500 scholarship from P. Buckley Moss Endowed Scholarship. There’s also the Gemm Learning’s Living With Dyslexia Scholarship (http://www.gemmlearning.com/about/faq/scholarships/) that is provided for dyslexic students. You need to provide a short essay about how you can handle dyslexia.
Overall, all of these scholarships are aimed to help students with dyslexia. If you are from a low-income family you may also qualified for other financial assistance such as the Federal Pell Grant or the FSEOG grant. Hopefully this post helps you finding scholarships for people With dyslexia.
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