John Lemons Enrichment Fund

Funded by Virginia Tech, the John Lemons Enrichment Fund is a one-time scholarship awarded to provide support of services to students who register with SSD with speech impairments or speech disorders. Services that are supported may include but aren’t limited to costs for providing speech therapy assistance, including engaging a speech therapist to provide standing hours on a regular basis through SSD, costs of providing technological assistance to include, for example, dictation software. Support of the creation and maintenance of support group for students with speech impairments or disorders. In the event that there is no need for the type of support listed above because there are no students registered with SSD with speech impairment or speech disorders, annual distributions may be used to provide similar support for other SSD programs. Changes in funding may cause VT to replace this award for another for the same amount.