Financial Aid for the Disabled and Their Families 2010-2012 - Hardcover

Schlachter, Gail Ann; Weber, R. David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1588412040 ISBN 13: 9781588412041

Publisher: Reference Service Pr, 2010

Synopsis

Billions of dollars in financial aid has been set aside for America's largest minority: the 49 million Americans with disabilities and members of their families. In fact, more money is available today than ever before! This funding is open to applicants at any level--from high school through postdoctorate and professional--for education, research, travel, training, career development, emergency situations, assistive technology, specially-adapted housing, and many other purposes.No other directory like this one! There's only one print publication that can put information about these funds at your finger tips: the 2010-2012 edition of Financial Aid for the Disabled and Their Families. Here is a sample of the kind of funding you'll find described in this directory: up to $10,000 a year for undergraduate or graduate students who are blind; up to $42,500 in home improvement loans for the disabled; $2,000 a year to undergraduates with an immune deficiency disease; $5,000 to performing musicians who are physically challenged; up to $500,000 in loans for the disabled to operate small businesses; $3,200 to purchase computers or other assistive equipment; income/property tax exemptions for the disabled in numerous states.What's included in the directory? In all, nearly 1,300 of the biggest and best funding programs are described in detail: program title, sponsoring organization address and telephone number (including toll-free and TDD), e-mail and web address, purpose, eligibility, financial data, duration, special features, limitations, number of awards, and deadline date. Plus, you also get a set of indexes that let you search the directory by program title, sponsoring organization, geographic coverage, subject field, and application deadline.How is the directory organized? To make it easy to find exactly the type of funding you need, the directory is organized by both type of program (scholarships, fellowships, loans, grants-in-aid, and awards) and type of disability: Disabilities in general: open to persons with any disability; funding does not specify or restrict the type of eligible disability; Visual impairments: open to persons partially sighted or blind, with or without correction; Hearing impairments: open to persons who have difficulty in receiving linguistic information, with or without amplification; Orthopedic and developmental disabilities: open to persons with 1) a severe orthopedic impairment caused by birth defects, diseases, or other situations or 2) a severe, chronic disability; Communication and other disabilities: open to persons who have a communication disorder, have a learning disability, are emotionally disturbed, or have other chronic or acute health problems (e.g., cancer, hemophilia, ADD-ADHD); Families of the disabled: Open to the children, stepchildren, adopted children, grandchildren, parents, siblings, and other dependents or family members of persons with disabilities. Plus, all this information can also be accessed by program title, sponsoring organization, where you live, where you want use the funding, subject interest, and deadline date.What's unique about the directory? In addition to its comprehensive coverage, the directory includes hundreds of financial aid opportunities not described in any other source. Further, it groups entries by both type of disability and type of funding. The same convenience is offered in the indexes, where the entries are similarly subdivided by disability and funding type. With this organization, users with one set of characteristics (e.g., persons with a hearing impairment) will be able to find all the funding set aside specifically for them, and not be distracted or have to waste time sorting through descriptions of programs intended for individuals with other types of disabilities.What do the reviewers say? This directory was chosen as one of the "best reference books of the year" by Library Journal and as one of the "outstanding reference books of the year" by the New York Public Library, which commended Reference Service Press for "its excellent contribution in an area of publishing where quality is at a premium." Booklist described the directory as "a well-crafted, easy-to-use, and affordable resource on financial aid." Disability Resources Monthly called the directory a "must-have" and American Reference Books Annual labeled it "an essential purchase." College Financial Aid agrees and, because of its "wealth of information," gave the directory its "four-star" (highest) rating.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Gail Schlachter has worked for more than three decades as a library manager, a library educator, and an administrator of library-related publishing companies. Among the reference books to her credit are the biennially-issued Money for Graduate Students in the Arts & Humanities and two award-winning bibliographic guides: Minorities and Women: A Guide to Reference Literature in the Social Sciences (which was chosen as an "Outstanding Reference Title of the Year" by Choice) and Reference Sources in Library and Information Service(which won the first Knowledge Industry Publications "Award for Library Literature"). She was the reference book review editor for RQ (now Reference and User Services Quarterly) for 10 years, is a past president of the American Library Association's Reference and User Services Association (RUSA, formerly RASD), is serving her fifth term on the American Library Association's governing council, and is a former editor-in-chief of Reference and User Services Quarterly. In recognition of her outstanding contributions to reference service, Dr. Schlachter was named the "Outstanding Alumna" by the University of Wisconsin School of Library and Information Studies and has been awarded both the Isadore Gilbert Mudge Citation and the Louis Shores/Oryx Press Award.Dr. R. David Weber taught history and economics at Los Angeles Harbor College (in Wilmington, California) for many years and continues to teach history as an emeritus professor. During his years of full-time teaching there, and at East Los Angeles College, he directed the Honors Program and was frequently selected as the "Teacher of the Year." Dr. Weber is the author of several critically-acclaimed reference works, including Dissertations in Urban History and the three-volume Energy Information Guide. With Gail Schlachter, he is the author of Reference Service Press' College Student's Guide to Merit and Other No-Need Funding, which was selected by Choice as one of the "Outstanding Academic Titles of the Year," and a number of other financial aid titles, including Financial Aid for African Americans, which was named the "Editor's Choice" by Reference Books Bulletin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Reference Service Pr
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1588412040
• ISBN 13: 9781588412041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480