What Does it Mean to Have Special Needs for Purposes of “Special Needs Planning?”

At Dickinson Law this week, we are lucky to have Massachusetts Attorney Stephen Spano visiting and presenting to our students in our “Law and Aging Policy” seminar.

In advance of his appearance and in preparation for his focus on “Special Needs Planning,” Stephen Spano, who is board certified as an elder law attorney by the National Elder Law Foundation (NELF) and whose firm concentrates its practice on elder law, estate planning and special needs planning, asked the students to watch two very interesting — indeed inspiring — Ted Talk videos. 

Here is his first assignment — and I look forward to seeing how he uses both videos with our students: 

 His second assigned video “homework” is from Aimee Mullins, who talks about “My 12 Pairs of Legs.”