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Legal > Advocacy
Your First Call to a Parent Training and Information Center: What to Have Ready
...state's Parent Training and Information Center has...these calls constantly, and the parents who get routed...what you can describe, and describing gets much easier...school year Every email and letter from the school...notice never went out or a legal timeline has already been...has already been missed, and that changes what you ask...
Parenting > Adulthood
Letter of Intent for Special Needs Planning: What to Include
A letter of intent is not a legal document. No court enforces...attorney needs to review it, and you can rewrite it in an afternoon...own initiative, to sit down and write out how your child lives....over your job tomorrow. Not the legal job of guardian or trustee....prevents one, meal preferences and textures that get rejected,...
Global Insights > Advocacy
How to Document Your Disability for IEP Advocacy Without Oversharing
...the IEP meeting, and the folder in front...therapy notes, and a printout of your..."bring everything," and now you're wondering...establish eligibility and design services,...design services, and it's narrower than...goes in the folder and what stays in a...qualifying disability, and that the disability...isn't part of the legal standard, and a...legal standard, and a school psychologist...
Parenting > Adulthood
Transition from High School: A Year-by-Year Timeline for Planning Adult Life
...one has raised guardianship, and the Medicaid waiver application...decisions that starts years earlier, and each one has a window that closes...systems, pediatric medicine and special education, hand a young...so you know what to ask for and when. Age 14: Open the Conversation....school, in education, employment, and independent living. Your child...
Legal > Advocacy
Parent Training and Information Centers: Free Advocacy Help in Every State
...IEP meeting, and your stomach...paperwork twice and you're still...private advocate, and you're not...hour with you and explain what...person exists, and the help is...Parent Training and Information...through IDEA, and staffed by...Parent Training and Information...evaluation and translate it...typically justify, and what's missing....the meeting and flag goals...questions to ask, and where parents...
Education > Special Education
Your Legal Rights When a School Denies Extended School Year Services
...times. A lot of parents read that and quietly accept it, assuming...assuming the school made its call and there's nothing left to do....Extended School Year services are a legal entitlement under the Individuals...hands out when staffing allows, and a denial triggers specific procedural...your child's own regression and recoupment data. A blanket rule...
Legal > Government Benefits
25 States Sue to Block Medicaid's New Work Requirements Rule for Disabled Adults
...stop. A coalition of 25 states and Washington, D.C. filed suit in...of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' interim final...CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy...document to keep coverage. Second, and more consequential for disabled...wrote into the underlying law, and their complaint states plainly...
Therapies > Speech
How to Request a Speech Therapy Evaluation Through Your School
...could use some help with speech, and then nothing happened. Three...any other part of the process, and it's the one worth getting right...conference creates goodwill but no legal obligation. The school can act...seek your consent to evaluate, and then has a fixed window to complete...Writing. The letter doesn't need legal language. It needs three...
Health > Alternative Medicine
THC vs CBD: What Parents Need to Know About Cannabis Products
...accident, but by design, and by federal definition....product for your child and assuming "CBD" means...exposure happens. The Legal Definition That Confuses...Bill defines hemp, and by extension legal...and by extension legal CBD, as cannabis...with federal law and still deliver measurable...up to that 0.3% legal limit. Companies...child, where even a legal, small dose of THC...
Legal > Government Benefits
Maryland Delayed Its DDA Wage Cuts One Day Before They Started. Here's What Self-Directing Families Should Do Now.
...roughly a third starting July 1, and some caregivers quit before the...budget shortfall that produced it and the deadlines that now replace...for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This...certain staffing situations, and requiring small vendors who work...into effect. What's Delayed, and Until When. The state didn't...
News > Advocacy
Minnesota Just Disenrolled 61% of Its Medicaid Disability Providers. Other States Are Running the Same Audit. Here's What Families Need to Do Now.
...revalidated 2,061 (37%) and disenrolled 3,411 (61%)....when the deadline passed and were disenrolled anyway....appeals. Some are pursuing legal action. This is not a Minnesota...mental health programs, and Integrated Community Supports...with spinal cord injuries and disabilities. Matthew Barry's...with spinal cord injuries and disabilities). DHS terminated...
Legal > Government Benefits
Six States Won't Accept Self-Attestation for the Medicaid Disability Work Exemption. Here's What Families in Arkansas, Hawaii, Indiana, Montana, North Carolina, and Utah Need to Do.
...expansion in Arkansas, Hawaii, Indiana, Montana, North Carolina, or Utah, and you have a disability but don't receive SSI, SSDI, or Medicare, you can't...Medicare, you can't simply tell your state Medicaid agency you're disabled and exempt from work requirements. You need formal medical documentation before...