Hard of Hearing, Blindness, or other Disability

Applicants must be legally blind, maintain a 3.0 GPA for most scholarships, be a full-time student, including students attending a technical college or attending a university as an entering freshman, undergraduate, or graduate student (as well as students ho work 32 or more hours per week and attend college part-time), and be involved in their school/local community.  They must be undergraduate or graduate students who are majoring in computer science, life sciences, physical sciences or engineering. Selection is based on the overall strength of the application.

The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) and American Council of the Blind (ACB) have partnered together to offer educational scholarships ranging from $2,000 to $7,500 for those attending a technical college or attending university as an entering freshman, undergraduate, or graduate student. This program awards students with scholarships to help with post-secondary education financial needs such as tuition, fees, room and board, and other additional costs associated with adaptive technology.

The Gaius Charles Bolin Fellowships at Williams College are designed to promote diversity on college faculties by encouraging students from underrepresented groups to complete a terminal graduate degree and to pursue careers in college teaching.

The George H. Nofer Scholarship for Law and Public Policy is for full-time graduate students with a pre-lingual bilateral hearing loss in the moderately-severe to profound range, who use listening and spoken language as their primary method of communication, and who are attending full-time an accredited mainstream law school or graduate school working towards a masters or doctoral degree in public policy or public administration.

Full-time masters and doctoral students with pre-lingual, bi-lateral hearing loss in the moderately severe to profound range are eligible to apply for the AG Bell merit-based scholarship program. Applicants must use oral language as their primary method of communication.