Scholarships for Cerebral Palsy
Monetary Assistance Specifically Designed for You
If you are a college-bound student living with Cerebral Palsy, or taking studies specifically related to the disease, you may qualify for one of around a dozen scholarships. We have discovered funding programs offered through schools, organizations and companies that will take the monetary edge off a college tuition.
Charitable Service Organizations
The Child Neurology Foundation offers up to ten summer clinical research scholarships to first and second year medical students in the United States and Canada who have an interest in child neurology.
AMBUCS has provided more than 11,000 scholarships for graduate and undergraduate students studying physical therapy, among other therapies. Students who plan to pursue a career in physical therapy working with individuals with cerebral palsy may benefit from this scholarship.
Medical Schools
Medical schools across the country award scholarships for particular fields of study and scholarships that are non-restrictive as far as the kind of medicine the student intends on practicing. Students who are planning to specialize in cerebral palsy, whether as a researcher or as a doctor will benefit from one of the many scholarships medical schools offer.
Professional Organizations
The American Physical Therapy Association Florence P. Kendall Doctoral Scholarships are awards of $5,000 to assist graduate students with outstanding potential in their first year of graduate studies leading to a doctoral degree.
Regional United Cerebral Palsy Societies
Although the National United Cerebral Palsy Society doesn't issue scholarships to students with cerebral palsy or to students to study cerebral palsy at a college/university, many of the local chapters of the United Cerebral Palsy Society do offer such scholarships. For instance the United Cerebral Palsy Medical or Graduate Student Fellowship is for graduate students of biomedical sciences to be involved in the field with respect to diagnosing, evaluating and treating individuals with cerebral palsy. The annual award is $15,000 and the monthly stipend $300.
United Cerebral Palsy of Central Minnesota offers scholarships to students from Steams, Benton or Sherbourne counties who have been diagnosed with having cerebral palsy.
The John J. Ingalls Scholarship administered by United Cerebral Palsy of MetroBoston, Inc. awards three $5,000 scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students who have been diagnosed with a physical disability.
United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Houston administers the Adult Program of United Cerebral Palsy Scholarship and offers scholarships to students with developmental disabilities. The scholarship is up to $500.
United Cerebral Palsy of Chicago offers scholarships in the amount of $2500. Several criteria are to be met including the student showing proficient use of assistive technology in a school setting.
There are local chapters of the United Cerebral Palsy Society all across America. These are just a few examples of what the local chapters offer.
Other Sources
There are many health-related scholarships available from a wide array of sources that award undergraduate and graduate scholarships to students in the medical field without restricting the awards to one particular field of study. This will greatly add to the options when looking for scholarships for the field of cerebral palsy.
The Ethel Louis Armstrong Foundation offers scholarships to female graduate students with disabilities. Margaret A. Staton founded the organization to help other women with disabilities like herself; she was disabled with a spinal cord tumor at a young age.
