Legal Council for Health Justice
Barbara Cohen is a legal advocate with experience in special education law and policy development. Barbara currently works at Legal Council for Health Justice and Special Family Support, LLC, where Barbara provides direct services for children who require additional support in school. In addition, Barbara is a weekly blogger for Psychology Today, focusing on neurodiversity, disability, and parenthood. Barbara holds degrees in Philosophy, Secondary Education, and Political Science.
Legal Council for Health Justice
We use the power of the law to secure dignity, opportunity, and well-being for people facing illness or disability. The agency, which merged three of the nation’s leading medical-legal partnership (MLP) programs to build a Midwestern hub of medical-legal program and policy development, is renowned for its expertise across complex intersections of disability benefits, health care services, education, employment, and other publicly-funded supports at the federal, state, and local levels. In 2015 we changed our name from AIDS Legal Council of Chicago to LEGAL COUNCIL FOR HEALTH JUSTICE.