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Get What You Deserve! Discover insider secrets to submit a bulletproof VA disability claim and secure financial support for a stress-free life after service.Are you a veteran who is struggling to secure VA benefits for a disability, PTSD, or a chronic injury after deployment? Are you feeling overwhelmed by complex bureaucracy and endless delays? Are you searching for step-by-step guidance that shows you exactly how to file for VA benefits and get an accurate disability status?Veterans have given everything to their country, and they deserve support in return – but far too many returning soldiers discover a complex, bureaucratic disability benefits process that leaves them stressed out and confused.Faced with strict requirements and a high denial rate, how can you secure the financial help you deserve and get the support you need to transition to civilian life?Packed with practical solutions, real-life success stories, and step-by-step instructions for navigating the VA benefits system, this comprehensive book offers a clear and accurate pathway that demystifies VA claims for Army veterans.Sharing vital insider advice and strategies to help you file a disability claim, collect the required medical information, and avoid lengthy delays or appeals, this book provides you with the guidance you need to prevent frustration when applying for support.Here’s just a little of what you’ll discover inside:• Straightforward Instructions For Navigating The Complex Bureaucracy & Securing Adequate Financial Support•Practical Steps To Access Quality Healthcare & Obtain The Right Diagnosis For Your Mental or Physical Service-Related Disability• Inspiring Real-Life Success Stories To Give You Much-Needed Motivation & Support• How To Gather The Correct Documentation, Provide Evidence, & Submit a Rock-Solid Claim• The Top Mistakes To Avoid, So You Can Prevent Lengthy Delays, Frustrating Appeals, or Denials• Insider Tips From Veteran’s Organizations To Simplify The Claims Process & Take The Hassle Out Of Securing Your Benefits• And Much More…Don’t risk making a mistake and getting caught up in endless red tape.Whether you’re a returning soldier seeking benefits, a concerned family member who wants to support a veteran you know, or if you’re a social worker or legal advisor who wants to better understand the VA benefits process, this book is a powerful companion guide that will save you needless stress.Are you ready to begin creating a foolproof VA disability claim? Then scroll up and click the “buy now” button today! Read more

In Case Studies in Disability-Driven Innovation, Robert Ludke reveals how disability-driven innovation is transforming the global economy while creating lasting value for society. Through compelling stories of entrepreneurs, business leaders, and innovators with disabilities, he demonstrates that the mindset of disability inclusion spurs innovation and creativity, drives market opportunities, and generates sustainable profits.This groundbreaking book challenges the misconception that disability inclusion is merely about compliance or philanthropy. Instead, it presents a powerful business case for how competitive, integrated employment of persons with disabilities benefits everyone through better products able to meet human needs, stronger organizational cultures, and more resilient companies. Whether you're an executive seeking to improve innovation, an entrepreneur looking to scale your venture, or an advocate working to create a more inclusive society, this book provides actionable insights to harness the transformative power of disability-driven innovation. Discover how embracing different lived experiences can create a better future for everyone. Read more

Say goodbye to confusion and uncertainty and hello to confidence and clarity as you navigate the complex world of special education.Special education laws and processes can be complex and confusing. It’s no wonder you feel frustrated, stumped, and in over your head… until now.This book takes you through the basics of special education and beyond, lifting away the fog of intimidating terminology and confusing procedures and arming you with the knowledge and tools you need to take on the special education system — and come out on top.In this guide, you’ll get:Special education laws demystified to help you navigate the complex world of special education and advocate for your child's rightsA clear and comprehensive guide to the IEP process to help you avoid common mistakes, saving you time, stress, and frustrationHow to create a convenient records binder to prepare for every step of the IEP processHow to understand evaluation results and defend your rights should you disagree with the outcomeWhat to do if your child is not eligible for an IEP – consider alternative options and protect your child’s right to an appropriate educationThe crucial difference between accommodations and modifications and how it can impact your child's potential – and why one commonly used accommodation should be used with cautionStrategies to support your child during tough moments and champion their needsHow to master the IEP meeting to guarantee your child's needs are understood and metComprehensive questions to ask special education providers so you can make informed decisions for your childHow to handle conflicts and disputes in the IEP process Effective strategies to ensure your child's IEP is being implemented even when you can't be thereAnd much more.Navigating the special education system can be tricky but not impossible. With this guidebook, you'll have all the tools you need to secure top-notch services for your kiddo.Put your game face on and become your child’s fiercest advocate and greatest cheerleader. Read more

How do communities consent to difference? How do they recognize and create the space and time necessary for the differences and disabilities of those who constitute them? Christian congregations often make assumptions about the shared abilities, practices, and experiences that are necessary for communal worship. The author of this provocative new book takes a hard look at these assumptions through a detailed ethnographic study of an unusual religious community where more than half the congregants live with diagnoses of mental illness, many coming to the church from personal care homes or independent living facilities. Here, people’s participation in worship disrupts and extends the formal orders of worship. Whenever one worships God at Sacred Family Church, there is someone who is doing it differently.Here, the author argues, the central elements and the participation in the symbols of Christian worship raise questions rather than supply clear markers of unity, prompting the question, What do you need in order to have a church that assumes difference at its heart?Based on three years of ethnographic research, The Disabled Church describes how the Sacred Family community, comprising people with very different mental abilities, backgrounds, and resources, sustains and embodies a common religious identity. It explores how an ethic of difference is both helped and hindered by a church’s embodied theology. Paying careful attention to how these congregants improvise forms of access to a common liturgy, this book offers a groundbreaking theology of worship that engages both the fragility and beauty revealed by difference within the church. As liturgy requires consent to difference rather than coercion, an aesthetic approach to differences within Christian liturgy provides a frame for congregations and Christian liturgists to pay attention to the differences and disabilities of worshippers. This book creates a distinctive conversation between critical disability studies, liturgical aesthetics, and ethnographic theology, offering an original perspective on the relationship between beauty and disability within Christian communities. Here is a transformational theological aesthetics of Christian liturgy that prioritizes human difference and argues for the importance of the Disabled Church. Read more

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Mr. Ortiz receives dozens of calls each month from individuals seeking assistance in disability claims. In addition to Social Security disability claims, many of these calls include questions concerning Long Term Disability (“LTD”), Short Term Disability (“STD”), Individual Disability Insurance and ERISA disability claims. When people seek assistance, they advise what they’ve already done in the claim on their own. Some are seeking assistance in applying for benefits. Others are seeking assistance in appealing a denial. And still others request help after their benefits have been cut off.After years of practice, Mr. Ortiz learned that claimants routinely make the same critical mistakes that can forever destroy their chances of ever collecting on their disability claims. That’s why he wrote this book. He wants to try and assist claimants in avoiding the most common mistakes in the claim process. If you visit his website www.FloridaLTDLaw.com, you will learn more about how the laws and regulations concerning disability insurance are very heavily stacked against individual policyholders in favor of the insurance companies. This book attempts to try and balance the deck stacked against claimants. For some claimants, the advice in this book may make the difference in collecting thousands of dollars of benefits. For others, this book may make the difference in hundreds of thousands, or even millions of dollars in benefits. Read more

Parents of children with disabilities often situate their activism as a means of improving the world for their child. However, some disabled activists perceive parental activism as working against the independence and dignity of people with disabilities. This thorny relationship is at the heart of the groundbreaking Allies and Obstacles.The authors chronicle parents’ path-breaking advocacy in arenas such as the right to education and to liberty via deinstitutionalization as well as how they engaged in legal and political advocacy. Allies and Obstacles provides a macro analysis of parent activism using a social movement perspective to reveal and analyze the complex—and often tense—relationship of parents to disability rights organizations and activism. The authors look at organizational and individual narratives using four case studies that focus on intellectual disability, psychiatric diagnoses, autism, and a broad range of physical disabilities including cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy. These cases explore the specific ways in which activism developed among parents and people with disabilities, as well as the points of alliance and the key points of contestation. Ultimately, Allies and Obstacles develops new insights into disability activism, policy, and the family. Read more

In Twenty-Two Cents an Hour, Doug Crandell uncovers the harsh reality of people with disabilities in the United States who are forced to work in unethical conditions for subminimum wages with little or no opportunity to advocate for themselves, while wealthy CEOs grow even wealthier as a direct result. As recently as 2016, the United States Congress enacted bipartisan legislation which continued to allow workers with disabilities to legally be paid far lower than the federal minimum wage. Drawing on ongoing federal Department of Justice lawsuits, the horrifying story of Henry's Turkey Farm in Iowa, and more, Crandell shows the history of the policies that have led to these unjust outcomes, examines who benefits from this legislation, and asks important questions about the rise of a disability industrial complex. Exposing this complex—which is rooted in profit, lobbying, and playing on the emotions of workers' parents and families, as well as the public—Crandell challenges readers to reexamine how we treat some of our most vulnerable fellow citizens. Twenty-Two Cents an Hour forces the reader to face the reality of this exploitation, and builds the framework needed for reform. Read more

An easy-to-read book that will help disability lawyers, nonattorney representatives, paralegals, and their staff members navigate the complicated Social Security Administration disability claims process. The author is a multi-published attorney with over 20 years of experience in disability law who represents claimants at all levels of the process--she helps clients all over the U.S. with applications,requests for reconsideration,hearings,appeals council reviews, and federal court appeals.Lisa McNair Palmer has helped thousands of claimants and has written hundreds of federal court briefs. The author is a sustaining member of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives (NOSSCR) and a long-time member of the National Organization of Veterans’ Advocates (NOVA). She is a public speaker seen in The Miami Herald, The Boston Globe, and on ABC, NBC, FOX News, and CBS News. Lisa teaches other attorneys, representatives, accredited agents, and their staff members how to be more successful and fulfilled while serving the disabled members of the national community.This book contains the author’s tried-and-true tactics and pointers for anyone working on these types of claims, whether you are a lawyer, EDPNA, non-attorney, paralegal, legal assistant, legal secretary, receptionist, or disabled claimant. This straightforward book will help professionals more effectively assist people who are entitled to disability benefits.The author provides experience, respect, and caring to all her disabled clients and offers her extensive knowledge in this book. She provides real-life stories, examples, tips, and even some key FORMS to help others assist the disabled who need and deserve the government benefits they are so often unfairly denied.This book is the first installment of The Lawyer's Bible Series, which will provide professionals, their staff members, clients, and the general public with practical, proven, and effective tactics for navigating our complex legal system.Scroll Up, Click on "Buy now with 1- Click," and Get Your Copy Now! Copyright: © 2020 by Lisa McNair Palmer. All rights reserved. Read more

The Essentials of Special Education Law distills the legal complexities of special education into a practical resource for preparation programs as well as professionals in the field. Written and organized with college students and practicing educators in mind, this book serves as a go-to guide to the historical underpinnings of special education, the six pillars of the Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), essential court cases that have propelled the field of special education to where it is today, and practical application tips to ensure legal compliance. With 45 years of combined special education legal experience, authors Andrew Markelz and David Bateman present the essential components of special education law like never before. Read more

Qualify for Social Security disability benefits, quickly and easilyThis comprehensive and compassionate book covers both SSDI and SSI, shows you how to prove a disability, and explains how your age, education, and work experience affect your chances. Parents will find special information about benefits available to children with a disability.Learn how to:• find the disability criteria for your medical condition• prove the severity of your disability• appeal if you’re denied benefits• work part time while keeping your benefits• prepare for a Continuing Disability Review• and more.Plus, this book is packed with filled-in samples of all the forms you’ll need, including the SSDI and SSI disability applications.This new edition includes:• a new discussion of getting disability for long COVID • explanations of Social Security’s updated medical listings for digestive and skin disorders. Read more

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Special Education Law, Sixth Edition, written by Laura Rothstein and Scott F. Johnson, provides a comprehensive and current overview of the major federal law, and judicial interpretations of those laws, that apply to special education students. School administrators and attorneys attend to special education issues on a regular basis, and local superintendents, principals, special education professionals, psychologists, and regional and state administrators must also be familiar with the legal requirements of educating students with disabilities. Classroom teachers in all types of  classrooms need to be aware of the laws that affect them and their students. Special Education Law 6e is intended for students in education and educational administration, both graduate and undergraduate, as well as law students in courses on special education law, school law, and special education.  The framework of this book begins with five introductory chapters on the major issues that are addressed in special education law. These topics include an overview the legal system, the history of special education, major statutes in special education law, stakeholders such as students, families, educators, and advocates, and finally, requirements for protection under various special education laws. The remainder of the text presents and analyzes special education case law within specific contexts. The text helps educators understand what the law requires so that they can make decisions that comply with these laws. Updates for the sixth edition include a major reorganization of the text. Chapters have been streamlined and edited for clarity, combining a previous chapter on Related Services with Free Appropriate Publication Education, and folding Eligibility into Identification, Evaluation, and Eligibility, so students can better see the connections between these topics. Many case excerpts have been shortened or summarized to provide students with a more straightforward and focused reading experience. The latest updates in statutes, regulations, and case law are included throughout the text.  Read more

The VA Claims Manual - The Average Veteran's Guide to Understanding the Veterans Benefits Administration is a groundbreaking handbook to provide veterans like you with the tools and knowledge you need to understand the frustrating VA claims process. My easy to read guide offers practical advice, insights, and tried and true methods to help you overcome obstacles, and achieve success in your claims journey. No hype, no "tricks," just proven strategies that I have used to assist veterans as a VA accredited Service Officer.Written by a 100% P&T US Marine veteran, Service Officer, and veterans advocate, it's relatable, reliable and easy to understand.I have been on both sides of the VA fence, so I understand what you are going through trying to deal with the VA. I've been there. I've endured C&P's, I've filled out those long VA forms, I've been denied.There are no "secrets" that some others promise. Just information you may not have known. My goal is to teach you all you need in order to file the best Compensation or Pension claim that you possibly can.Through step-by-step instructions, clear explanations, real-life examples, images of the VA forms you'll use, and simple, human-written words, I will teach you how to effectively navigate the VA bureaucracy, understand VA requirements, gather compelling evidence that matters, how to obtain your C-file, and how to advocate for your EARNED benefits.I cover everything from your initial forms all the way to the VA decision. Read more

This is the first fundamental text to focus specifically on forensic vocational rehabilitation, a field that is forecast to grow rapidly. Forensic vocational rehabilitation consultants evaluate the vocational and rehabilitation needs of individuals in an array of legal settings such as civil litigation, workersí compensation, Social Security disability, and others. The text is unique in its exploration of the vocational rehabilitation process from a biopsychosocial perspective that views disability as a complex and multidimensional construct. The book comprehensively describes the parameters and theoretical issues of relevance in evaluating and developing opinions in forensically oriented matters. It culls and synthesizes current peer-reviewed literature and research on this private subspecialty practice area of rehabilitation counseling, including theories, models, methods, procedures, and fundamental tenets of the field. Also included is current information about the labor market, life care planning, and professional identity, standards, and ethics. The text is designed for graduate and postgraduate students in rehabilitation counseling and psychology as well as practicing forensic vocational rehabilitation consultants and professionals moving toward practice in this arena. Chapters are authored by noted scholars or published practitioners in each subject area, and include an introduction to the content area, discussion of key terminology and concepts, and a review of the current and historical literature, with emphasis toward future research needs and evidence-based practice. The book fulfills the requirement by the Commission on Rehabilitation Education (CORE) for training in this subject area at the graduate level for new certification or certification maintenance. Key Features:Comprises the only foundational text to focus specifically on forensic vocational rehabilitationSynthesizes peer-reviewed research into one authoritative sourceDescribes the role, function, and scope of practice of the rehabilitation counselor in private forensic vocational rehabilitation practiceFulfills CORE requirements for certification Read more

Unlock the Hidden Secrets of Disability LawDid you know that disability laws offer incredible protections you might not even realize exist? From skipping the line at amusement parks to work-from-home rights and even tax deductions for service animals, these laws are designed to break down barriers and make life more accessible.In Disability Law Secrets: Everyday Rights You Might Not Know About, you’ll uncover:Front-of-the-Line Access: How disability accommodations work at amusement parks and major events.Service Animals Beyond Dogs: Discover how miniature horses are recognized under the ADA.Accessible Entertainment: Learn about sensory-friendly movie screenings and priority seating at concerts and sports games.Workplace Rights: Understand your rights to assistive technology, remote work, and more.Travel and Transit Benefits: Explore accommodations like accessible swimming pools at hotels and paratransit services.Financial Relief: Find out how to deduct accessibility expenses and medical costs on your taxes.Whether you’re navigating employment, public spaces, housing, or transportation, this guide will help you advocate for yourself, eliminate barriers, and live more confidently. With real-world examples, practical tools, and actionable advice, Disability Law Secrets is your key to understanding and utilizing the laws designed to protect your rights.Empower yourself today—because knowing your rights is the first step to changing your world. Read more

Bringing Cookies to IEP Meetings Will Only Get You So Far! You’ve gone to IEP workshop after IEP workshop, searched for answers at conferences, done late night research on the internet, and yet you still have those guilty feelings that you’re not doing a good enough job advocating for your child. It takes more than gathering records, giving factual information or reciting research and the law to be a successful advocate for your child. With clarity, honesty, and insights Charmaine Thaner shares how to be a more effective advocate for your own child. After reading The Art of Advocacy: A Parent’s Guide to a Collaborative IEP Process, parents will know: * that certain finesse that is necessary when dealing with disagreements * how asking the right question will get you the right answer * the secrets to creative problem solving when the team has hit a roadblock Readers will also receive priceless bonuses: * a template for writing effective emails * lists of clarifying and probing questions to ask * step-by-step ways to creatively solve problems, and much more Charmaine gives examples of actual conversations and real scenarios to help you learn what to do and what not to do at special education meetings. Chapters include: 1) Conflict and Collaborative Advocacy; 2) How to Listen And Ask Questions With Genuine Curiosity; 3) How to Listen With Your Eyes; 4) Know What to Say When; 5) Building Authentic Relationships; 6) How to Use Collaborative Problem Solving; 7) The End is Really The Beginning. Each chapter is written so busy parents can get to the point quickly. When parents combine the art of advocacy with a collaborative way of solving problems there will be: * a positive difference in the tone of meetings * parent voices that are heard and understood, and * happier, safer, and more successful students in schools Read this book, practice what you’ll learn, and gain the confidence to become an even more effective advocate for your child! Parents that have worked with Charmaine know her insights and strategies are invaluable when advocating for children with any type of disability. Buy this book today if you want to make positive changes for your child! Read more

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Do you have a severe physical disability or mental health disorder that keeps you from working full-time? Has it lasted, or is it expected to last, for at least one year? Were your benefits terminated? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you may be eligible for Social Security disability benefits. But did you know the government denies the majority of claims, even when people deserve benefits? If you applied for SSD benefits at your local Social Security office and the Social Security Administration denied your claim, don't give up. We have been successful in securing favorable decisions for our clients and are proud to have attorneys who keep informed on all changes in Social Security law. We understand that many Social Security disability applicants are overwhelmed at the thought of the complicated application process of the federal disability programs. Let us help you go after what is yours. We wrote this book for you. This book should not be considered legal advice, but an overview of the world of Social Security Disability. Read more