 The administration building at Beacon College in Leesburg is pictured on Wednesday, August 15, 2012. (Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel) (Stephen M. Dowell, Orlando Sentinel / August 15, 2012) |
LEESBURG ? The Able Trust, which helps spur employment opportunities for people with disabilities, recently awarded $50,000 to Beacon College.
Beacon is the nation's only accredited four-year college for students with learning disabilities. The award will give a boost to these students, "who are already working to overcome barriers in their path to independence," according to the college, which will help students during the transition from school to the working world with training in self-awareness and workplace socialization.
College President John Hutchinson said Beacon takes "a very proactive role in helping its graduates to find suitable employment and to assure that their transitions into the workaday world are successful."
Susanne Homant, president and CEO of the Tallahassee-based trust, called the grant a natural fit for the organization.
"Beacon College has been enormously successful in helping to prepare persons with learning disabilities to live a life without limits and experience the highest degree of independence ? which includes reintegrating them into the workforce."
Beacon offers associate of arts and bachelor of arts degree programs to students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), dyslexia and other visual and auditory disabilities.
Staff report
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