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  2. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services - Wikipedia

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    The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services is a state agency in Pennsylvania [2] tasked to provide care and support to vulnerable citizens. With a range of program offices, the department administers various services including eligibility determination, foster care, early childhood development, services for individuals with disabilities, long-term living programs, and management of ...

  3. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 - Wikipedia

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    Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulations provide a list of conditions that should easily be concluded to be disabilities: amputation, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, bipolar disorder, blindness, cancer, cerebral palsy, deafness, diabetes, epilepsy, HIV/AIDS, intellectual disability, major depressive disorder ...

  4. Adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - Wikipedia

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    ADHD in adults, as with children, is recognized as an impairment that may constitute a disability under U.S. federal disability nondiscrimination laws, including such laws as the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA, 2008 revision), if the disorder substantially limits one or more of an individual's major life ...

  5. Timeline of disability rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Pennhurst, filed in Pennsylvania on behalf of the residents of the Pennhurst State School and Hospital, highlighted conditions at state schools for people with intellectual disabilities. It became a precedent in the battle for deinstitutionalization, establishing a right to community services for people with developmental disabilities.

  6. Disability in the United States - Wikipedia

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    People with disabilities in the United States are a significant minority group, making up a fifth of the overall population and over half of Americans older than eighty. [1] [2] There is a complex history underlying the U.S. and its relationship with its disabled population, with great progress being made in the last century to improve the livelihood of disabled citizens through legislation ...

  7. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - Wikipedia

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    [78] [79] Learning disabilities have been found to occur in about 20–30% of children with ADHD. Learning disabilities can include developmental speech and language disorders, and academic skills disorders. [80] ADHD, however, is not considered a learning disability, but it very frequently causes academic difficulties. [80]

  8. List of Pennsylvania state agencies - Wikipedia

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    Pennsylvania State Board of Censors. Pennsylvania Department of Commerce; Pennsylvania Department of Community Affairs; These two departments were merged to form the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development. Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources; Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Water

  9. Emotional and behavioral disorders - Wikipedia

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    The state of Florida has Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disabilities Network (SEDNET). SEDNET projects across the state aid the local school districts to work with those at-risk of EBD's. “Dealing with adverse behavior in the educational environment,” it serves students who poorly function at home, school, or community due to drugs and ...

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