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Legal > Advocacy
Questions to Ask Your Attorney Before Hiring Them
...Special Needs Attorney: Questions...Ask Your Attorney Before Hiring...special needs attorney, yet sometimes...special needs attorney. The right...The right attorney will help...the right attorney to deal...where your attorney stands on...education attorneys, some work...work as a public service...public service attorney,...service attorney, which means...education attorneys can also...type of attorney you hire,...
News > Advocacy
Social Security Staffing Cuts Push Disability Claims Down 7%, Hearing Backlog Up 24%
...states shifted to appointment-only service or closed to the public entirely as...appointment-only service or closed to the public entirely as of May 2026. The number...waits, harder-to-reach staff, and services moving online or to automated systems...The agency also lost hundreds of attorneys and paralegals who help ALJs prepare...
Legal > Government Benefits
Understanding Legal Rights and Government Assistance for Special Needs Individuals
...disabilities have equal access to public spaces, transportation, and...spaces, transportation, and services. This includes things like...to a free and appropriate public education. Government Benefits...transportation, and personal care services. It's important to work with...important to work with an attorney who specializes in...
Education > Accommodations
The IEP Process Explained by an Attorney
...regardless of abilities or disabilities, are provided with free appropriate public education. That's the term under the law. States that are taking federal...kids who qualify. SN: How do they qualify for these special education services? Mr. Knauf: If a teacher or a parent suspects that there is some kind of...
Education > Accommodations
Special Education Advocates
...access educational supports and services for their child, a consultation...or cause. A reputable non-attorney special education advocate...determine what supports and services are needed for their child...secure appropriate supports and services, modifications, and accommodations...to a "free and appropriate public education" (FAPE). Special...
Career > Skills Training
Getting to Work Independently: Transit and Paratransit Training for Employees with Disabilities
...barriers, and one of the most solvable. Public transit can feel overwhelming on paper....to know is this: the skills and the services are there. You don't have to piece...Training as a Vocational Rehabilitation Service. Travel training isn't "just practicing...travel training as a pre-employment service in most states. If you're working...
Career > Finding Jobs
American Job Centers: Free Employment Services by State
...They're open-access public resources, and...Centers Offer. The services at these centers...categories: self-service resources you can...staff-assisted services that require meeting...enrollment. Self-service typically includes...Staff-assisted services include one-on-one...networks the general public doesn't access...boards. Intensive services are available through...
Education > Special Education
IEP Services Can't Be Cut by a Budget Crisis. Here's How to Hold Your School Accountable.
...guarantees specific services. That guarantee...cutting staff and services will change,"...Appropriate Public Education)....special education services like speech...mental health service cuts, and 62%...receive the services written in...pay for those services doesn't change...and related services at public expense,...services at public expense, under...expense, under public supervision,...
Therapies > Animal
Service Dog, Therapy Dog, or Emotional Support Animal: Which Is Right for Your Child?
...overlapping: service dog, therapy...and has full public access rights,...wait years on service dog lists when...rights, and cost. Service Dogs: Task-Trained,...ADA Access. A service dog is individually...Disabilities Act (ADA), service dogs have full...dogs have full public access rights:...is "task." A service dog doesn't just...tasks, it isn't a service dog under the...
News > Advocacy
Self-Advocacy for Adults with Disabilities: How to Speak Up in Medical Work and Daily Life
...employees, equal access to state and local government services, and access to public accommodations like restaurants,...state and local government services, and access to public accommodations like restaurants, hotels, and retail...approved. It means the burden is on the employer or service provider to demonstrate that your request would...
News > Research
The Autism Research Panel That Controls $2 Billion Just Lost Its Scientists
...research funding, was supposed to hold its first public meeting since January on March 19. It didn't happen....membership to include "leading research, advocacy, and service organizations for individuals with autism spectrum...research priorities is stacked with people whose public positions contradict the scientific consensus,...
Legal > Government Benefits
What to Do When Medicaid Cuts Your Child's In-Home Care
...Or the personal care services your family has relied...$80.7 million in cuts to services for people with disabilities....caregivers only after hours of public testimony. If you just...home and community-based services (HCBS) can come from...are being reduced, a service is being terminated,...advance notice before services are reduced or stopped....