What Are Disability Advocates?
The term disability advocate can mean several things. Normally anyone who advocates does so on the behalf of someone else, and it’s easy to see that a person of this nature advocates for another person who is disabled. Advocacy is performed in order to get or retain rights that may be available to a disabled person, such as government payments or modifications to learning environments. What is sought depends on each country’s benefits and each individual, and disability advocates may specialize in a certain area, only working with clients that need specific things. Such representatives may work for free or, more commonly, they may charge people for their services. In countries like the US, there are a number of professional representatives who work with the disabled to help them navigate complicated applications for disability/Medicare and supplemental security income. These may be lawyers or others certified as disability advocates, who step in if applications have been denied. Since
