Includes bibliographical references and index. "Additional resources": pages 251-252.
Contents:
Understanding the special needs client. Overview of the special needs market -- Working with clients and families -- Essential questions to ask clients -- Understanding special needs practice issues. Understanding financial issues -- Understanding legal issues -- Managing ethical and practice risks -- Understanding public benefits. Social security and supplemental security income -- Medicare -- Medicaid -- Housing, food stamps, temporary assistance to needy families -- The special needs legal practice. Special needs education -- Special needs trusts -- Building a special needs practice.
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