living with a disability

Learn about when a student may be eligible for a 504 plan, how 504 plans are different than IEPs, and what to do if you disagree with the school about a 504 plan.

If you need immediate hospitalization to protect yourself or others from physical harm, you may be admitted through the admission by emergency certification process.

Information about rights in a voluntary or involuntary admission, transfer, and discharge.

Explains qualifications to receive Supplemental Security Income benefits.

Explains who qualifies for AABD benefits in Illinois. Recipients receive cash and medical assistance.

Describes the rules and patient rights which apply to all types of admissions to a mental health facility.

Learn about your rights as a worker with a disability, including protections against discrimination and how to ask for reasonable accommodations.

Learn how to ask the school to evaluate your child for special education and related services.

Learn how the testing process for special education works and the eligibility criteria for children to qualify for help.

If you do not pose an immediate danger to yourself or others, you are entitled to have a court hearing before you are admitted to a mental health facility.

Steps to appeal a Social Security decision from the deadlines you must follow to how the administrative hearing works.

Explains what you can expect if you are moving to a long-term care facility.

When Social Security pays a large amount of past-due SSI benefits for a child, the money must go into a special account called a “dedicated account.” Learn about how to set up and use dedicated accounts as a representative payee.

Explains the steps you can take to challenge a nursing home's decision to transfer or discharge you from their facility.

A student with a disability can be suspended for the same reasons as a student without a disability. But there is a limit to how many days a student with a disability may be suspended in the same school year.

Learn about where the Appeals Council fits in the Social Security appeals process, how to request a review from the Appeals Council, and what to expect at the Appeals Council.