Know your rights, where to get help and ways to help yourself
There are 24 resources
General Information
A Guide to Disability Rights Law
(Separate Website)
This document has information about the following: Americans with Disabilities Act, Telecommunications Act, Fair Housing Act, Air Carrier Access Act, Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act, National Voter Registration Act, Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Rehabilitation Act, Architectural Barriers Act and other sources of disability rights information.
By: U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
A Resource for Disability Rights and Elder Law Information
(Separate Website)
The Legal Center uses the legal system to protect and promote individual rights through direct legal representation, advocacy, education and legislative analysis.
By: The Legal Center for People with Disabilities and Older People
Americans with Disabilities Act Information
(Separate Website)
Information on a wide variety of topics, including the American with Disabilities Act and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. This website also has forms you can use to file a complaint of discrimination on the basis of disability.
By: U.S. Department of Justice
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
ADA Mediation Program
(Separate Website)
Program helps with ADA disputes through informal methods.
What is Title VI of the Civil Rights Act?
(Separate Website)
Your rights concerning discrimination in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance. (This is a very legal-like website, harder to understand.)
By: US Department of Labor
How to File a Charge with the EEOC
(Separate Website)
If you believe you have been discriminated against by an employer, labor union or employment agency when applying for a job or while on the job because of your race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, or disability, you may have grounds to file a charge of discrimination.
By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Job Accomodations for People with Mental Illness
By: Project T.R.A.I.N. - Opportunities for People with Disabilities
Rights of Parents with Students who have Special Needs
(Separate Website)
Provides detailed information about a parent?s right to request a due process hearing and provides model request forms. (You must have Adobe Reader on your computer. Go to www.adobe.com, click on the yellow icon "Get Adobe Reader" and download the program to your computer.
By: Council for Disability Rights
Applying for Aid to the Needy Disabled (AND)
(Separate Website)
How to apply for AND, what information you need to take when you apply, where you need to go to apply, and more information about services and programs for the disabled.
By: Colorado Department of Human Services
Health insurance for Seniors and people with disabilities
(Separate Website)
Medicare is a health insurance program for people 65 years of age and older, some disabled people under 65 years of age, and people with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure treated with dialysis or a transplant).
By: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Information on health insurance for Seniors and people with disabilities
(Separate Website)
Medicare, what it covers, how to enroll and more.
By: Medicare Rights Center
Medicaid Buy-In for Working People with Disabilities
(Separate Website)
Information about the option to provide Medicaid to working people with disabilities whose earnings are too high for them to qualify.
By: The Work Site
Help with Securing Funding for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Devices through Medicare, State Medical Assistance Programs or Private Insurance
(Separate Website)
If you need access to technology that helps with communication barriers, this information is designed to walk you through the funding process, and provide you with the information and forms you need to start the process. (CLS does not support one particular supplier of product, only help facilitate the process of fair access to help and equipment.)
By: Funding Department, DynaVox
Marriage and Public Benefits
(Separate Website)
When a person who receives public benefits marries, his or her benefits can change or stop, depending on the person?s age and which benefits he or she is receiving, as well as other factors. This section will outline some effects that marriage can have on some specific public benefit programs.
By: Colorado Bar Association - Senior Law Handbook
Applying for disability benefits for your child
(Separate Website)
These factsheets tell you what you should know when you apply for SSI disability benefits for your child and what information and documents for your child that you will need for the disability interview.
By: Social Security Administration
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Social Security Benefits and Representative Payee
If Social Security determines you cannot manage your benefits on your own due to mental or physical disabilities, they will choose someone else and designate them "representative payee". Read more about that here.
By: Colorado Legal Services
Employment Protection for People with Disabilities
(Separate Website)
This resource covers many topics including: laws regarding employment and people with disabilities; filing a charge of discrimination (how to prepare, where to file, how to file) and an Internet resource list. (You must have Adobe Reader on your computer. Go to www.adobe.com, click on the yellow icon "Get Adobe Reader" and download the program.)
By: The Legal Center for People with Disabilities and Older People
Employment Support for People with Disabilities
(Separate Website)
Promotes the employment of people receiving Social Security who are with disabilities by designing policies that make work pay; promoting research and program innovation; educating the public about programs and services that ease entry into the workforce; and partnering with other public and private groups to remove employment barriers for people with disabilities.
By: Social Security Online
Federal Employment of People with Disabilities
(Separate Website)
This site provides help for Americans, with and without disabilities, to better understand how to hire and retain persons with disabilities. The site is for applicants and employees with disabilities, Federal managers and supervisors, and human resources professionals
By: Office of Personnel Management
What are the Federal Laws Prohibiting Job Discrimination?
(Separate Website)
Information on federal laws prohibiting job discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin or disability.
By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Fair Housing Resources for the Disabled
This list of resources features links to information about the Fair Housing Act, resources for finding housing, and organizations that assist people with disabilities with housing issues.
By: Colorado Legal Services - Denver, CO
Finding an Advocate
This is a list of advocate groups that can assist people with disabilities with legal issues. It includes contact information, as well as a brief summary of the kinds of issues each organization handles.
By: Colorado Legal Services - Denver, CO
Office of Dispute Resolution
(Separate Website)
If you have a legal dispute, the Office of Dispute Resolution (ODR) may be able to help. This link will take you to their homepage. The ODR exists to establish and make available dispute resolution programs and services within the Colorado Judicial Branch.
By: Colorado Judicial Branch
Talk with a Lawyer on Law Line 9
An advice line providing brief direction on legal problems.
By: Channel 9 News in Denver, Colorado
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