Services for Students with Disab

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Full-time students with financial needs can apply for grant and loan from the Government Local Student Finance Scheme. Applications are means-tested and different amounts are awarded according to need. Applicants receiving a Disability Allowance from the Social Welfare Department may be granted a special loan equivalent to 50% of the maximum loan on top of the original entitlements.

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Full-time students with financial needs can also apply for assistance from the PolyU Financial Assistance Scheme. Special consideration may be given to expenses incurred from the disability.

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Both full-time and part-time students with financial needs can apply for a loan from the Government Non-means Tested Loan Scheme. Applications are non-means tested and the load is meant for the payment of tuition fees only.

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In addition to scholarships available to full-time students, full-time students with disability meeting the requirements and criteria would be nominated by Heads of Departments to compete for the following scholarships/awards:

• Sir Edward Youde Memorial Awards for Disabled Students
• Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship(s) / Scholarship (s) for Disabled
• The Outstanding Young Persons' Association Scholarship for Students with Disability

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Other scholarships are also available from the community, such as Li Kwan Hung Education Fund administered by the Hong Kong PHAB Association and S.K.Y. Lee and Lee Chi Hung Scholarship Fund for Hearing Impaired Students administered by The Hong Kong Society for The Deaf. Invitation for application will normally be announced in August each year. Watch out for the notice.