Financial Aid for Future College Students

For this section of my blog I chose to find financial aid options that are available to students with disabilities when they are moving on to a postsecondary educational setting. I think it is important to know about the financial aid options that are available and I hope to provide students with disabilities and their parents with a variety of informational links to some of these items. I have found three artifacts that I think will give some very important financial aid options to parents and students both. I can’t imagine trying to search for the mountains of information about financial aid on my own and I hope that these artifacts will help point you in the right direction.

The first artifact that I found is from the University of Washington. It is called: College Funding Strategies for Students with Disabilities. This article goes over a wide range of items including federal student aid programs, SSI, PASS, State VR services and several others. It also gives you many links to other great resources that will help you with your financial aid needs. This will be great for both parents and students because it will provide them with a large number of resources to help them get prepared for the financial needs that college life presents. To access this artifact, click on the link below.

http://www.washington.edu/doit/Brochures/Academics/financial-aid.html

The second artifact that I found is on the Financial Aid Finder website. It is called College Grants for Students with Disabilities. This page provides student and their parents with a wide range of promising grants for students with disabilities. They have a breakdown of grants by disability type (autism, blindness, etc…). Parents and students will be able to access specific grants and not have to try and sort them out; it has already been done in this publication. I think this will definitely provide easier access to financial aid for current and future college students with disabilities. Access to this artifact is at:

http://www.financialaidfinder.com/financial-aid/financial-aid-programs/major-aid-programs/grants-students-disabilities/

The final artifact that I found is on the DisabilityInfo.gov website. It is a list of the different financial aid options that are available to students with disabilities. This website also provides links for educators pursuing careers in the field of special education. I thought that the information that I found on this page was very informative and would be of great benefit for both students with disabilities and their parents in their extensive search for financial aid options. Click on the following link to see this artifact.

http://www.disabilityinfo.gov/digov-public/public/DisplayPage.do?parentFolderId=84