Health Care

An amendment to health care reform legislation would offer people with special needs greater access to in-home attendant services.

A Senate bill, passed in November, would establish a system for training and supporting caregivers of injured veterans.

The Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 finally went into effect this year, and it promises to dramatically alter the way people with mental illness receive and pay for treatment.

National Authority on Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income Brings Fresh Ideas and More than Three Decades of Experience to the Association.

A guide provides a way for the parents or guardians of children with special needs to map out in detail who their child is and the care he or she should receive.

ASNP Co-Founder, Harry Margolis is interviewed by WBZ TV in Boston by reporter Paula Ebben.

In existence for less than a year, the Academy of Special Needs Planners (ASNP) has already become the largest membership organization of special needs planning attorneys in the country.

Academy of Special Needs Planners co-founder Diedre Wachbrit's article "9 Costly Mistakes to Avoid in Planning for Your Special Needs Child" appears in the March 30, 2007, edition of the US Autism & Asperger Association's Weekly News.

One of the programs on the cutting edge of community mental health is called "supportive housing," and it incorporates not only housing but social services and medical care as well.