[Specialed] Scholarships info

[Richard Evans]

Scholarships for Disabled

http://www.finaid.org/otheraid/disabled.phtml The site for FinAid has a disability resources page including financial aid strategies and scholarship opportunities.

http://www.thinkcollege.net<http://www.thinkcollege.net/> A Web site devoted to providing a centralized pool of information on opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities who want to go to college

Anne Ford Scholarship
http://www.ld.org/awards/afscholarinfo.cfm
The Anne Ford Scholarship is a $10,000 scholarship awarded by the National Center for Learning Disabilities to a high school senior with a learning disability who can act as a role model for others who are faced with learning disabilities and who has the potential of contributing to society in a way that increases opportunities for all people with learning disabilities. The application deadline is December 31.  For more information, write to Anne Ford Scholarship, National Center for Learning Disabilities, Inc., 381 Park Avenue South, Suite 1401, New York, NY 10016-8806 or call 1-212-545-7510.

 The Yes I Can! Foundation for Exceptional Children
 http://yesican.cec.sped.org/scholarship/index.html<http://yesican.cec.sped.org/scholarship/index.html>
 The Yes I Can! Foundation for Exceptional Children offers the Stanley E. Jackson Scholarships and Sara Conlon Memorial Scholarship. Each scholarship is $500 for first year college students with a disability. US citizenship is required. The application deadline is February 1.  For more information, write to Foundation for Exceptional Children, 1110 North Glebe Road, Suite 300, Arlington, VA 22201-5704 or send email to yesican at cec.sped.org This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .

Bank of America Abilities Scholarship Program
http://www.scholarshipprograms.org/bada/bada_2005_ins.htm
This program awards scholarships to students with disabilities (including learning disabilities) who have a career interest in finance, business or computer science, a GPA of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, and who reside in Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia or Washington. For more information, write to Bank of America Abilities Scholarship Program, PO Box 1465, Taylors SC 29687 or call 1-864-268-3363.

Recording for the Blind/Learning through Listening
This program provides three scholarships of $3,000 each for high school seniors who are learning disabled. The award is based on academic achievement, leadership, enterprise, and service to others. Financial need is not a factor.  For more information, call 1-609-452-0606 or write to Recording for the Blind/Learning through Listening, Attn: Lorraine Grestry, 20 Rozelle Road, Princeton, NJ 08540.



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Richard A Evans, Ph.D.
SPED Undergraduate and Graduate Advisor
CoE - Dept of Teacher Education
Angelo State University
2601 W. Avenue N
San Angelo, Texas 76909
CARR # 120
325-942-2052
Fax: 325-942-2039
Member of the Texas Tech University System

Please excuse what appears to be obvious errors in my email. Unfortunately my learning disability affects my ability to detect what appears to most individuals as simple errors in writing. Even though I used a spell and grammar checker, some mistakes will still get overlooked.

"The difficult things, we handle immediately; the impossible takes a little longer." Dr. Thomas Walton, President of Texas A&M University 1939.


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