By Robert J. Osborne, Esq.
If a child has a severe impairment or combination of impairments that does not meet or medically equal any listing, the Social Security Administration will decide whether the impairment, or the combination of impairments, results in limitations that functionally equal the listings. This means that the child’s impairment(s) must be of listing-level severity – it must result in “marked” limitations in two domains of functioning or an “extreme” limitation in one domain, as explained below. [Read more…]