Canada Student Grant for Students with Permanent Disabilities

Accessibility Services can provide assistance with provincial grant applications for equipment and services for students with permanent disabilities. Information and eligibility on Canada student grants for students with permanent disabilities is located on the CanLearn website.

There are two main grants available: 

1. Canada Student Grant for Students with Disabilities: Provides funding (up to $2,800 per year) to help with the general costs of post-secondary education.  
2. Canada Student Grant for Services and Equipment – Students with Disabilities: Provides additional funding to help cover exceptional education-related costs for things like assistive technology, tutors, or note-takers.  

For more information or assistance with the application for the Canada Student Grant for Students with Disabilities, please contact Accessibility Services at 902-566-0668 or by email accessibility@upei.ca.

UPEI Scholarships and Awards

UPEI offers many student scholarships and awards. Please refer to the sortable list of scholarships.

You may also check our Financial Aid page.

Disability related scholarships and bursaries

Students with disabilities may qualify for the following scholarships:

• UPEI Memorial Bursary for Students with Disabilities
• UPEI MyAbilities Scholarship
• Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada Scholarship Programs
• Mattinson Scholarship Program for Students with Disabilities
• NEADS Disability Scholarships
• $5,000 Medavie Scholarship Honouring Pierre-Yves Julien
• ResourceAbilities awards and scholarships
• Noreen and George Corrigan Scholarship - Learning Disability
• Sarah Gaulin Memorial Scholarship
• The AbbVie IBD Scholarship Program
• Canadian Hard of Hearing Association
• Sun Life Workplace Readiness Program - Easter Seals Society of PEI
  • Provides a $2,000 scholarship and pairs students with a volunteer mentor for a nine-month program to help transition into the workforce.  

Online scholarship resources

• DisabilityAwards.ca
  • An extensive portal created by the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) specifically to help students with disabilities search for scholarships across Canada.  
• ScholarshipsCanada.com
  • A massive Canadian database containing thousands of general scholarships, bursaries, fellowships, and grants.  
• Student Awards Canada
  • Canadian database of thousands of scholarships, bursaries, fellowships, grants, and other financial awards.”