Scholarships for Families with Exceptional Needs Children
Earn up to $10,000 per Child
Eligibility Requirements
Students with Unique Abilities
The Family Empowerment Scholarship for Students with Unique Abilities (FES-UA)
A different kind of scholarship:
*Eligible Diagnoses:
The Scholarship award amount varies according to grade, county of residence and disability. The award amounts for the coming school year are still being determined.
Age requirements:
The Family Empowerment Scholarship for Students with Unique Abilities (FES-UA)
A different kind of scholarship:
- Available to students age 3 through grade 12 or age 22, whichever comes first, who have a specific diagnosis*
- $10,000 average award for an FES-UA scholarship
- Funds may be used for tuition and fees for a private school, homeschooling options, therapies, tutoring and more
*Eligible Diagnoses:
- Anaphylaxis
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Being a high-risk child
- Cerebral Palsy
- Down syndrome
- Emotional or a behavioral disability
- Hearing impairment, including deafness
- Hospital or homebound
- Identification as dual sensory impaired
- Intellectual disability
- Language impairment
- Muscular dystrophy
- Orthopedic impairment
- Other health impairment
- Phelan-McDermid syndrome
- Prader-Willi syndrome
- Rare diseases
- Specific learning disability
- Speech impairment
- Spina bifida
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visual impairment, including blindness
- Williams syndrome
The Scholarship award amount varies according to grade, county of residence and disability. The award amounts for the coming school year are still being determined.
Age requirements:
- Students must be at least 3 or 4 on or before Sept 1.
- Students entering kindergarten must be 5 on or before Sept 1.
- Students entering first grade must be 6 on or before Sept 1.