IPAS can help individuals with disabilities by:
- Providing information and technical assistance to empower individuals to advocate for their own rights;
- Investigating, or causing an investigation to take place, concerning reports of abuse or neglect of individuals living in the community, in residential facilities or in correctional facilities;
- Assisting in securing the appropriate medical, psychiatric or habilitation services;
- Assisting families in securing the free and appropriate public education services for children with disabilities, to which they are entitled;
- Helping gain access to public places and governmental buildings;
- Correcting discrimination when individuals attempt to obtain housing or employment;
- Empowering individuals to make their own decisions and be fully participating members of their communities;
- Helping to secure the assistive technology services and devices individuals need to be more independent;
- Helping to assure that private information is not released without an individual's permission;
- Helping secure the rights of individuals to make their own choices as they prepare for employment through Vocational Rehabilitation or Ticket to Work training programs;
- Helping to ensure that voting machines and polling places are accessible to individuals with disabilities.