Disability Cases

The claimant was a 37 year old female who alleged disability because of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depression, personality disorder, and chronic pain. A case manager from a mental health center filled the Continuing Disability Review Report- Form SSA 454 for the claimant. In that form, the claimant reported that she lived in a van, had chronic pain, and “scrounge money for gas and cigarettes.” She indicated that she was forgetful, had difficulty with memory, concentration, understanding

The federal government pays qualified workers who are or become disabled and their families’ monetary benefits known as social security disability (SSD). The Social Security Administration defines a disability as the inability to do any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months. To meet this definition,

The proportion of the US population with disabilities has risen markedly during the past quarter-century. As the data, present I decided to write about Lazaro Chaviano because he has had a long life of challenges. Lazaro is from Cuba, and his first language is Spanish, so he needed to find a job where the management could understand him. Tessie explains, “For a year we were looking for jobs. He tried another job, but it wasn’t the right place for him because they didn’t speak Spanish. We thought

Instead of doing an essay about mental disabilities and court cases, I have decided to write about why I can not do this essay. I do not have a viewpoint on it, I am not educated on the matter, and I do not understand how to approach the topic. There are plenty of other topics I could do, but this is not one of them. I have approached this essay with an open mind. I simply just do not care about it enough, and I do not know where to even begin. I have gone through multiple thesis statements, all

Try imagining having the desire to work but being denied this right. This is what individuals with disabilities face each day. Disabled Americans have some of the highest unemployment rates and their poverty rate is three times greater than that of the public (Jasper & Waldhart, 2013). Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 was enacted to help prevent employment discrimination. ADA prohibits job discrimination against disabled individuals who could perform the essential functions of the

The American Disability Act is a federal civil rights law passed in 1990 and went into effect at the beginning of 1992. The purpose of the Act is to protect people with disabilities from discrimination in employment, programs and activities offered by state and local governments (Peak, 2011). This essay will explain how the job design in criminal justice agencies need to take into account the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Acts in making reasonable accommodations for disabled employees

From reading Brittany’s case history, my provisional diagnosis is a language-based learning disability. Language-based learning disabilities or LLD are characterized by age inappropriate deficits in the areas of reading, spelling, and/or writing (ASHA, 1991). According to Brittany’s case history, she has great difficulties reading, spelling, and writing, causing her to fall well behind her classmates. Despite Brittany’s problem with reading, spelling, and writing, her case history reports that she

Introduction Before the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was enacted, there were little resources for people with disabilities, though IDEA has changed all of that. The U. S. Department of Education (2015) stated “This law had a dramatic, positive impact on millions of children with disabilities in every state and each local community across the country” (Public Law 94-142, para. 1). The IDEA has provided millions of recipients the education and care necessary for them to be productive

In order to protect the rights of children with disabilities there have been many legislative acts since the 1960’s. One of these is the American with Disabilities Act which was passed in 1990 in an attempt to provide equal opportunities to people with disabilities (American, 2010). Children with disabilities are guaranteed the same access to education as children who do not have disabilities thanks to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) (Motwani, 2007). Under IDEA, students can

several legal and social foundations that are related with the Individuals with Disabilities Act. (Legal: constitution, 10th and 14th amendment) social foundations (what people thought about disabilities in the past) connect Willowbrook, early researches from 17-1800. Multiple students within a school system require special services, however no student received the necessary services until Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was signed into law in 1975. This latest revision of the law