People with a disability or long term medical condition

This category is for students that have a disability or medical condition that has affected their ability to study.

Some examples of disabilities or medical conditions include:

car accident
chronic pain
drug or alcohol addiction
learning disabilities
major illness
personal injuries impacting on study requirements (eg. broken arm or leg)
severe or debilitating illness (eg. mental illness, eating disorder, glandular fever, chronic fatigue syndrome)
victim of crime
vision or hearing impairments

Supporting documentation required

You must submit a statement as part of your application describing your disability or medical condition and demonstrate the effect on your educational performance. When wrting an impact statement, make sure you write enough to describe the circumstances and their educational impact. This statement provides the person assessing your application the information they need to understand the effect of the disadvantage on your educational performance.
You must also submit a confidential statement of support completed by a relevant health care professional who can verify your circumstance/s.

Your treating medical professional should supply your statement of support. If they are inaccessable or unwilling to provide your statement of support then a responsible person can supply your statement of support. The responsible person should explain the circumstances you describe in your scholarship application in their own words and be able to comment on how the circumstances have affected your educational performance. A responsible person is:

Doctor or health care professional
Lawyer
Social worker
Registered counsellor
Religious or community leader
School principal or teacher or senior member of school staff

Note: Statements of support CANNOT be supplied by a person who is related to you or in a relationship with you. If the only responsible person who has knowledge of your circumstances is a family member or partner, then you must supply a statutory declaration explaining why there is no other person who can supply the statement along with the statement of support. Regardless of the presence of the statutory declaration, statements of support supplied by family members or partners may not be considered for assessment.

Current Monash students: If you are unable to provide a confidential statement of support, you can provide a letter from the Monash University Disability Liason Unit (DLU).

Your application under this category will not be considered if you do not provide the confidential statement on the template above or a letter from the Monash DLU.