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Social Engagement > Discrimination
Understanding Disability Discrimination: Your Rights and How to Take Action
...applies, or where to file a complaint. Most people who experience...you, and how to file complaints with the correct enforcement...correct enforcement agency before the deadline runs...free appropriate public education (FAPE), discriminatory...Disability discrimination complaints are the largest category...the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights....
Legal > Discrimination
When Disability Discrimination Happens: How to File a Complaint and What to Expect
...Employment, education, housing, and...roadmap. Which Agency Handles Your...Handles Your Complaint. The agency...Complaint. The agency you file with...accommodations at work. Education discrimination...Department of Education. This includes...and Title III complaints are filed. If...start with the agency that seems closest....Miss. Every agency has a statute...
News > Education
Education Secretary Says Special Ed Could Be Split Between Labor and HHS. What Families With IEPs Need to Know.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon...with Disabilities Education Act could be split...the Department of Education. "We are looking...guarantees special education services to children...the Department of Education enforces IDEA, investigates...IDEA, investigates complaints, and provides guidance...answers to yet: Which agency would handle IEP...
News > Advocacy
HUD Ends Federal Enforcement for Untrained Emotional Support Animals in Rental Housing
...encountered resistance could file a complaint with HUD and have the agency investigate...a complaint with HUD and have the agency investigate on their behalf. The new...disability. The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, which analyzed the...noted that the change means "filing a complaint with HUD is no longer a meaningful...
Financial > Scholarships
Writing a Scholarship Essay About Your Disability: What Works (and What Doesn't)
...staring at a 500-word prompt asking how your disability has shaped your educational journey. The committee will read hundreds of essays about overcoming adversity....myself at IEP meetings before I learned algebra." That sentence shows agency. It positions you as someone who navigated systems, not someone things...
Special Needs > General Special Needs
CONFERENCE WATCH: Little People of America National Conference, Anaheim, CA. July 1 – 8, 2001
...that benefit the dwarfism community, promoting education, community outreach, personal and family strength,...workshops in the afternoon. Their non-profit agency, Motivational Small Talk, specializes in school...cyberbullying. The week-long program is packed with educational, social and recreational opportunities (it is...
Special Needs > Dyslexia
Agency Spotlight: The International Dyslexia Association
...global partners across 18 countries, including Australia, Brazil, England, Germany, Ireland, and Japan, the IDA is a non-profit, scientific, and educational organization dedicated to the study and treatment of dyslexia and other learning difficulties. The organization estimates that up to 20% of the...
Special Needs > Dyslexia
Agency Spotlight: Dyslexia Awareness and Resource Center (DARC)
...Learning Disabilities Association), DARC is what would be called a local agency. It principally serves Santa Barbara and it's surrounding counties, yet...people without resources and who in many cases have been abused by the educational system which was supposed to enable them to achieve their full potential....
Social Engagement > Support Groups
Agency Spotlight: Leaning on CHADD
...have a local chapter, which offers free support groups, free access to educational experts and monthly meetings open to the public. Our local chapter number...you won’t have to face ADHD alone. Rather, you’ll gain the support and education necessary to navigate towards a...
News > Advocacy
The FDA Is About to Finalize Its Ban on Shock Devices Used on Disabled People. Here's What Families Need to Know.
...Decelerators (GEDs), electric shock devices used at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton, Massachusetts. The devices are used on autistic children...but a federal appeals court overturned that ban in July 2021, ruling the agency lacked authority to regulate how doctors use medical devices. Congress...
News > Advocacy
The FDA Missed Its Deadline to Finalize the Electric Shock Device Ban. Here's What Disability Families Need to Know.
...autism at a Massachusetts residential school. The agency had set the May 2026 target in the fall of 2025,...States currently uses it: the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JRC) in Canton, Massachusetts. The JRC...proposed banning the GED in 2016. In March 2020, the agency finalized that ban, determining the device presented...
Career > Skills Training
Pre-ETS for Students with IEPs: Workplace Skills Before Graduation
...workplace readiness services through your state's vocational rehabilitation agency before they graduate. These services, called Pre-Employment Transition...exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, postsecondary education counseling, and instruction in self-advocacy. Both systems work together....