The Texas Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program assists individuals and families in saving private funds for the purpose of supporting individuals with disabilities to maintain health, independence, and quality of life.
Disability Rights Texas is the protection and advocacy agency for Texans with disabilities. Protection and advocacy agencies are sometimes called P&As. They were created in the early 1970s because of a national news story about Willowbrook, a large home in New York for children with disabilities.
Disability Rights Texas is the federally funded and authorized protection and advocacy system for Texans with disabilities.
Alcoholism or drug addiction. Intellectual, learning and developmental disabilities. Physical disabilities, including traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, back injury, paralysis and impaired movement. Visual impairments.
You may be eligible for vocational rehabilitation services if you: Have a disability which results in barriers to employment. Need services to discover and prepare for employment.
You are eligible to receive vocational rehabilitation services if: You are an injured worker in receipt of compensation payments (or will likely be in receipt of compensation payments) as a result of a work-related disability, You are unable to return to your regular job due to some remaining permanent disability, and.
Texas Health and Human Services.
Offers different benefit programs for people with disabilities such as: Social Supplemental Income (SSI) for those without qualifying work credits. Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) for those with qualifying work credits. Social Security Survivor Benefits for dependents of adults that have passed away.
Texas has its own statute in place in addition to the ADA. Chapter 121 of the Texas Human Resources Code covers the protection of the rights of disabled people. If you own a website or sell to Texas residents, it's essential to ensure that your website is accessible to everyone.
Texas Workforce Solutions-Vocational Rehabilitation Services (Previously known as DARS)