Disability
Able South Carolina
Able SC is a disability-led organization seeking changes in systems, communities, and individuals.
Advance Directive Forms
Links to living will and health care power of attorney forms that are provided by statute. While it is not required, you are encouraged to consult an attorney for assistance in executing these documents and answering questions specific to your needs.
Americans with Disabilities Act
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodation, communications, and governmental activities. The ADA also establishes requirements for telecommunications relay services.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - Accessible Transportation
The Americans with Disabilities Act, (ADA) gives people with disabilities many important rights in the area of transportation. This fact sheet is limited to public transportation systems. For more information on your rights to other types of transportation, please contact one of the resources listed on our contact sheet. If you have a disability, you are entitled to the same right to use and enjoy public transportation as people without disabilities. The local transit provider does have the duty to make public transportation accessible. Here are some examples of things that are needed to make a transportation system accessible. Public buses need to be accessible to those in wheelchairs. Drivers need to announce their stops out loud to benefit visually impaired persons who ride the bus. Telephones, drinking fountains, and restrooms inside the terminal should also be accessible.
Americans with Disabilities Act - Answers to Common Questions
The Americans with Disabilities Act gives civil rights protections to individuals with disabilities similar to those provided to individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, and religion. It guarantees equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities in public accommodations, employment, transportation, State and local government services, and telecommunications. This web page is designed to provide answers to some of the questions asked most often about the ADA.
Americans with Disabilities Act Business Connection
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a Federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in everyday activities, such as buying an item at the store, going to the movies, enjoying a meal at a local restaurant, exercising at the health club, or having the car serviced at a local garage. This web site contains information about the Federal laws that establish requirements for businesses of all sizes to accommodate the needs of disabled people. These requirements went into effect on January 26, 1992.
Assistance for Children Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Assistance for Children Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Autism Speaks
Autism Speaks is the nation's largest autism science and advocacy organization, dedicated to funding research into the causes, prevention, treatments and a cure for autism; increasing awareness of autism spectrum disorders; and advocating for the needs of individuals with autism and their families. The Autism Speaks? Family Services website contains information tool kits. A state by state resource guide and a resource library to assist families in dealing with the medical, educational and social challenges posed by autism.
Benefits Verification
This website will help you request a "Proof of Income" letter that can be used to prove that you are eligible for benefits.
Bureau of Certification
The Division of Certification surveys health facilities that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, including nursing homes and facilities for the mentally retarded. These facilities are surveyed with unannounced site visits. Survey teams include nurses, pharmacists, social workers, dieticians and qualified mental retardation professionals.
Bureau of Disease Control
By law, DHEC is mandated "to investigate the reported causes of communicable or epidemic disease and to enforce or prescribe such preventive measures as may be needed to suppress or prevent the spread of such diseases." The program's major activity involves HIV, other STDs, TB, protection from measles, polio and other vaccine-preventable diseases and outbreaks from other communicable diseases. Because all South Carolinians may be subject to communicable disease, we cannot abdicate our responsibility to monitor and control communicable diseases.