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Kansans with disabilities shall be guaranteed the same rights as all other Kansas unless these rights are limited by provision of law or court order. These rights shall include the following:
- Being free from physical or psychological abuse or neglect, and from financial exploitation;
- Having control over your own financial resources;
- Being able to receive, purchase, have, and use your own personal property;
- Actively and meaningfully making decisions affecting your life;
- Having privacy;
- Being able to associate and communicate publicly or privately with any person or group of people of your choice;
- Being free from inappropriate use of a physical or chemical restraint, medication, or isolation as punishment, for the convenience of a provider or agent, in conflict with a physician's order or as a substitute for treatment, except when physical restraint is in furtherance of your health and safety;
- Not being required to work without compensation, except when you are living and being provided services outside the home of a member of your family, and then only for the purpose of the upkeep of your own living space and of common living areas and grounds that you share with others;
- Being treated with dignity and respect;
- Receiving due process;
- Having access to your own records, including information about how your funding is accessed and utilized and what services were billed for on your behalf.
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