Rights of Persons w/ Disabilities
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How to File a Charge with the EEOC
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. Content Detail
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A Resource for Disability Rights and Elder Law Information
The Legal Center uses the legal system to protect and promote individual rights through direct legal representation, advocacy, education and legislative analysis. Content Detail
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What is Title VI of the Civil Rights Act?
Your rights concerning discrimination in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance. (This is a very legal-like website, harder to understand.) Content Detail
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Americans with Disabilities Act Information
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. Content Detail
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A Guide to Disability Rights Law
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. Content Detail
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ADA Mediation Program
Program helps with ADA disputes through informal methods. Content Detail
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Help with Securing Funding for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Devices through Medicare, State Medical Assistance Programs or Private Insurance
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.) Content Detail
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Rights of Parents with Students who have Special Needs
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. Content Detail
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Applying for Aid to the Needy Disabled (AND)
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. Content Detail
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Medicaid Buy-In for Working People with Disabilities
Information about the option to provide Medicaid to working people with disabilities whose earnings are too high for them to qualify. Content Detail
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Information on health insurance for Seniors and people with disabilities
Medicare, what it covers, how to enroll and more. Content Detail
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Health insurance for Seniors and people with disabilities
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). Content Detail
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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. Read More
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What are the Federal Laws Prohibiting Job Discrimination?
Information on federal laws prohibiting job discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin or disability. Content Detail
