| Grants for developmental disabilities are extended to | | | | office closest to him. This is followed by a medical test |
| those suffering from permanent physical or mental | | | | that authenticates the disability, if required. The grant |
| disorders, so that they too may lead as normal a life | | | | stops being effective when the person either passes |
| as possible, with minimum social stigma and hardships. | | | | away, or the condition for which he had been given |
| Those with developmental disabilities that are of the | | | | that particular grant ceases to exist. |
| mental kind are people who suffer from conditions like | | | | There are a number of ways that a disabled person is |
| autism, genetic and chromosomal disorders like or | | | | offered financial support, like the employment and |
| Fragile X-syndrome or Down's syndrome, or cerebral | | | | support allowance, attendance allowance, disability living |
| palsy. Schools for those suffering from developmental | | | | allowance, incapacity benefit, prescriptions and hospital |
| disabilities are aplenty these days; some are funded by | | | | travel allowance, providing equipment for independent |
| government agencies, while others are run by private | | | | living, and also independent living fund. |
| companies and non-governmental organizations or | | | | A few prominent grants and scholarships offered to |
| NGOs. | | | | disabled individuals are the Alexander Graham Bell |
| Grants extended towards the assistance of the | | | | Association for the Deaf Financial Aid and |
| disabled include money, books, and paraphernalia, | | | | Scholarships, Anne Ford Scholarship, 1800wheelchair |
| counseling as well as tax benefits. Being accepted for | | | | Scholarship, Creating Options: A Resource on Financial |
| a disability grant is easy, since those offered by the | | | | Aid for Students with Disabilities, and the Evelyn and |
| government are administered federally. The disable | | | | Fredrick Weissman Education and Charitable |
| person must first present his application to the welfare | | | | Foundation. |