Programs for Students with Permanent Disabilities

Learning Disability Assessment Bursary

This bursary was established to assist students with the up-front costs of the learning disabilities assessment.  

If you have a learning disability, you require a recent learning disability assessment to determine eligibility for services and/or equipment through the Canada Student Grant for Services and Equipment for Persons with Permanent Disabilities program.

This grant program is available if you are studying part-time or full-time and attending a British Columbia public post-secondary institution taking post-secondary level courses.

A bursary of up to $1,800 will be made available to eligible applicants.

Eligibility:

To be eligible for this bursary you must:

• Demonstrate financial need through an existing StudentAid BC assessment application (i.e. StudentAid BC loan, part-time studies application).
• Be enrolled in post-secondary level courses at a B.C. designated public post-secondary institution.
• Be recommended by a Disability Service Provider to have a learning disability assessment.
• Be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident or protected person as outlined in StudentAid BC policy.
• Apply [64kb] for a learning disability reimbursement through the Canada Student Grant for Services and Equipment for Persons with Permanent Disabilities.
• Sign an Undertaking and Assignment to release the reimbursement to the institution (if assessment meets ministry criteria) . The reimbursement will then be returned to the institution’s learning disability assessment bursary account so these funds may be reissued to other eligible students. 

For more information

Contact the disability services office at a B.C. public post-secondary institution or e-mail the special programs unit of StudentAid BC at: SABCSpecialPrograms3@gov.bc.ca.