Discounts for People with Disabilities

Living with a disability can come with a lot of added expenses.

However, plenty of retailers and organizations are offering discounts to help ease those costs and provide better access to necessary resources.

Score deals on everything from assistive electronics to transportation and even education with this list of over 100 discounts for people living with disabilities.

Electronics and Apps

With the rapid evolution of technology, there are new resources every day to assist disabled people with everyday tasks. Find deals on electronics and assistive apps below.

Electronics

• AT&T: People with hearing or speech disability (primarily communicate by texting or video calling) are qualified for AT&T Accessibility plan.
  
• Lifeline: Disabled people with SSI can apply for low-cost phones and plans.
  
• Give Tech: Give Tech give away input devices that allow people with quadriplegia to use computers.
  
• Telecommunications Equipment Distribution Program Association (TEDPA): People with hearing impaired can get free specialized telephone devices.
  
• PCs For People: PCs For People are allowing disabled people with SSI to get computers for $0 to $150.

Assistive Apps

• Camera Mouse: Camera Mouse is a free program that control the mouse pointer on a Windows computer just by moving head.
  
• Natural Readers: Natural Readers is a free App to convert Text-to-Speech.
  
• Be My Eyes: Be My Eyes is a free app that connects blind and low-vision users with sighted volunteers in the area.
  
• NVDA: NVDA is a free screen reader that converts text into Braille.
  
• Speak4Me: Speak4Me is a free app that converts texts to speech.
  
• TapTapSee: TapTapSee is a free app designed for people with visual and hearing impairment to take a picture with voiceover functions.
  
• Swift Braille: Swift Braille is a free app for visually impaired people to type with braille on their phone.
  
• Access Earth: Access Earth is free app that allows disabled people to find and rate places by accessibility needs.
  
• Roger Voice: Roger Voice is a free app that converts phone calls into captions immediately.

Health and Wellness

Staying healthy can go a long way to improve mood, memory, relationships, and much more. Find discounts on wellness products and assistance with this list.

• Getting Back Up: Eligible disabled person will get funding for participation in exercise-based recovery programs and the purchase of adaptable products.
  
• Friends of Man: People with special needs can apply for assistance of mobility equipment and medical supplies.
  
• Travis Roy Foundation: Eligible people with paralysis will get free adaptive equipment and technology and home modifications for quadriplegics and paraplegics.
  
• Alternatives in Motion: People with disability can apply for free mobility needs (application on website).
  
• Cascade Healthcare Solutions: Cascade Healthcare Solutions offers discount codes on medical supplies.
  
• Home Medical Equipment: HME provides medical equipment in discounted price.
  
• Wellcare: Household with disabled get $25 worth of OTC items each month.
  
• Variety: Variety provides medical and accessibility equipment for kids with special needs.

Travel and Entertainment

Need some R&R? Find deals on sightseeing, transportation and more with this list of travel and entertainment discounts for people living with disabilities.

Entertainment and Travel

• ClubGO: ClubGO offers discount club for travelers with disabilities.
  
• America The Beautiful Pass: Disabled people get lifetime pass for $10 for admittance to over 2,000 recreation sites.
  
• Brooklyn Museum: Visitors with disabilities (care partner free of charge) get discounted admission fee fares at Brooklyn Museum.
  
• MIUSA: MIUSA provides international exchange opportunities for people with disability.
  
• San Fransisco Zoo: Disability people get admission rate of San Francisco discounted resident rates.
  
• Philadelphia Zoo: Philadelphia Zoo offers one complimentary free access for disabled people with government-funded Personal Care Attendant (PCA).
  
• San Diego Zoo: San Diego Zoo offers one free access for caregiver/attendant of disabled people.
  
• Safari Park: Safari Park offers one free access for caregiver/attendant of disabled people.
  
• Virginia Zoo: Both individuals with a disability and their one companion will receive free admission to the Virginia Zoo.

Transportation

• Avis: Avis provides full range of products and services with no fee for disabled passengers.
  
• Enterprise: Disabled people can rent cars with Adaptive Driving Devices with no charge.
  
• Amtrak: Amtrak offers a 10% rail fare discount to disabled adults, 50%+10% to disabled children.
  
• Capital Area Transportation Authority (CATA): CATA offers free CATAClub Card to disabled people to get discounted fare.
  
• Capitol Corridor: Capitol Corridor offers 15% discount for disabled people who use promo code V577.
  
• Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART): People with special needs who has Discount Permit Card can get discounted fare.
  
• Lee County Transport: People with special needs get discounted fares and passes.
  
• Maryland Transit Administration (MTA): Disabled people with valid ID are eligible for reduced fares on MTA transit services.
  
• Regional Transportation Authority (RTA): People with disabilities enrolled in the Illinois Department can ride free on the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra and Pace fixed-route services.
  
• Riverside Transit Agency (RTA): Disabled people are eligible for a discounted fare on all RTA fixed-route services.
  
• San Diego Metropolitan Transport System (MTS): People with disabilities are eligible for reduced fares and passes.
  
• Sun Metro: People with disabilities are eligible for reduced fares and passes.
  
• Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA): Metrobus and Metrorail customers with disabilities may be eligible to ride at a discounted rate.

Automotive Discounts

Having an easy, affordable way to get around town is important. Below, find discounts from automotive companies on accessibility modifications for your ride.

• Audi: Audi will offer up to $1,500 in assistance for hand controls (or other approved handicap assistance devices) to person with disability who purchases or leases a new Audi or CPO Audi vehicle.
  
• Volvo: Volvo offers up to $1,000 toward adaptive equipment and up to $200 for alert hearing devices reimbursement for disabled people.
  
• Subaru: Subaru provides reimbursement of up to $1,000 vehicle modifications on new Subaru vehicles for disabled people.
  
• BMW: Disabled people who require mobility modifications may qualify for a one-time adaptive equipment reimbursement of up to $2,500.
  
• Lexus: Lexus provides new or wheelchair-accessible converted Lexus retail vehicle buyers with a cash reimbursement of up to $1,000.
  
• Hyundai: Hyundai offers up to $1,000 reimbursement of vehicle accessibility modifications for disabled people.
  
• Acura: Acura offers up to $1,000 reimbursement of adaptive equipment for disabled people.
  
• Honda: Honda will provide a reimbursement of up to $1,000 of adaptive vehicle equipment for every purchase or leased Honda vehicle.
  
• Toyota: Toyota provides new or wheelchair-accessible of up to $1,000 by purchasing new Toyota vehicle.
  
• Nissan: Nissan offers up to a $1,000 reimbursement on your purchase and installation of qualified adaptive equipment.
  
• Ford: Disabled people can get up to $1,000 adaptive equipment reimbursement.
  
• General Motors: Disabled people can receive up to $1,000 reimbursement when they add eligible mobility-related equipment to their new purchased vehicle.

Disability Assistance and Programs

Nonprofits and organizations dedicated to those living with disabilities can provide tons of helpful information. Don't miss this list of organizations below.

Service Dog Programs

• Assistance Dog United Campaign: Assistance Dog United Campaign provides financial assistance to individuals who have the need for an assistance dog.
  
• Canine Companion For Independence: Disabled people can receive free of charge trained service dog.
  
• Canine Assistants: People with disability are eligible for free of charge service dog by filling application form on the website.
  
• 4 Paws For Ability: People with disability are eligible for free of charge service dog by filling application form on the website.

Organizations for People with Disabilities

• Volunteers of America: Volunteers of America provides housing and supports for people with disabilities.
  
• National Disability Rights Network: NDRN advocates laws protecting civil and human rights of people with disabilities (free for NDRN members).
  
• Special Needs Alliance: People with special needs can find attorney through Special Needs Alliance.
  
• National Library Service: National Library Service (NLS) is a free braille and talking book library service for people with temporary or permanent low vision, blindness, or a physical disability.
  
• Parents Helping Parents: PHP provides resources for parents, caregivers, and children with special needs.
  
• Bookshare: Bookshare gives free access of accessible books for individuals with print disabilities.
  
• Easterseals: Easterseals provide several services for people with disability.

Financial Assistance

• Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP): LIHEAP provides financial assistance to low-income disabled people.
  
• Social Security Disability Benefits: Disabled people can receive Social Security Disability Benefits by applying online or call 1-800-772-1213.
  
• VITA Tax Assistance: VITA program from the IRS offers free tax help to people disabilities who need assistance in preparing their own tax returns.
  
• Nova Funding: Eligible disabled people can up to 25 percent of the cost of the mobility transportation equipment with a maximum award of $5,000.
  
• Good Days: Good Days provides financial assistance for people who cannot afford the treatment they urgently need.
  
• IRS Credit for the Elderly or Disabled: IRS offers tax credits for the elderly and individuals with disabilities.
  
• Kids' Waivers: Kids' Waivers provides Medicaid waivers, Katie Beckett or TEFRA programs, and other programs for children with disabilities or medical needs.
  
• Pacer Center: Pacer Center offers free resources for parents with disabled kids to control their finances for the child.
  
• PAN Foundation: PAN Foundation gives financial assistance for people with disability.
  
• Act Today: Act Today provides up to $5,000 grants for individuals and families affected by Autism Spectrum Disorders.
  
• Building Blocks for Kids: BB4K provides grants for kids with special needs.

Scholarships for People with Disabilities

More organizations than ever are offering financial awards for students living with a disability. Check the list below, and don't forget to look into local grants offered by organizations in your own town or state.

• American Association on Health and Disability: AAHD offers scholarship programs for people with disabilities.
  
• Bryon Riesch Paralysis Foundation: BRPF offers $2,000-$4,000 scholarships to 2 or 3 individuals with neurological disabilities, or the child of that person.
  
• RiSE Scholarship Foundation: RiSE gives scholarship to students with learning disabilities who determine to overcome their difficulties while pursuing post secondary education.
  
• Cystic Fibrosis Scholarhip: Young adults with CF can get scholarship for to their education at a college or vocational school.
  
• Microsoft: Microsoft offers scholarship for promising high school seniors with disabilities who plan to attend a technology related program of vocational or academic college.
  
• National Federation of the Blind: NFB gives scholarship to eligible blind scholars.
  
• Incight: Incight offers scholarship for students with disabilities who pursuing higher education.
  
• Buckfire Law: Disabled students can apply for Buckfire's Law Scholarship worth $1,000.
  
• UNCF Numotion Foundation: African American college students with mobility-related disability (wheelchair) are eligible for the scholarship.
  
• 1800wheelchair: 1800wheelchair provides one or two $500 sholarship awards each year for disabled students.
  
• National Center for Learning Disabilities: NCLD provides scholarship for students who have learning and attention issues.
  
• Ameriglide: Ameriglide provides $2,500 scholarship for one full time college students who use either a manual wheelchair, power wheelchair, or mobility scooter.
  
• Perecman Firm: Avonte Aquendo Memorial Scholarship offers scholarship for college students who diagnosed with autism (including Asperger syndrome).
  
• Cochlear: Cochlear provides scholarship award to Cochlear Nucleus Implant recipients.
  
• Lighthouse Guild: Lighthouse Guild offers scholarships for higher education students with vision loss.
  
• Organization for Autism Research: OAR supports the qualified higher education students with an autism spectrum diagnosis by granting scholarship.
  
• Sertoma: Higher education students with hearing loss are eligible for scholarship grant.
  
• SpinLife: Students who are manual or power wheelchair users enrolled at an accredited 4-year institution are eligible for scholarship grant.
  
• Gemm Learning: Gemm Learning offers undergraduate scholarship for students with dyslexia and/or auditory processing disorder.
  
• UCT: UCT provides scholarship for students and teachers seeking college degrees or certification to work with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
  
• Learning Ally: Learning Ally provides scholarship for high school seniors with learning disabilities.
  
• Auger Law: Auger Law provides semi-annual (spring and fall) scholarship to chosen disabled student.
  
• Swope Rodante: Swope Rodante provides scholarship for students with spinal cord injuries and/or traumatic brain injuries.
  
• Lavelle Fund: Students who are blind or heavily visual impaired are eligible for up to $15,000/student academic year scholarship.
  
• Learning Ally: Learning Ally provides scholarships for blind or visually impaired high school seniors.
  
• Boomer Esiason Foundation: BEF provides scholarship for cystic fibrosis students or students with cystic fibrosis diagnosed parents (higher education).

Bottom Line

In addition to what we list in this guide, there are many other organizations and retailers that offer specific promotions and deals for those living with a disability.

Before making a purchase, be sure to refer back to this list or ask the store directly if there are discounts you can take advantage of.