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Transportation barriers: building mobility without driving

Adult TransitionCommunity Living Supports (CLS)How-To Guides
Transportation barriers: building mobility without driving Two out of three autistic young adults do not have a driver’s license by 21. The mobility plan for the other two thirds is...
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The Waskul Settlement Changed Michigan Self-Determination: Are You Using Your New Rights?

Community Living Supports (CLS)Legal DevelopmentsMichigan-SpecificSelf-Direction
The Waskul settlement changed Michigan self-determination. Are you using your new rights? A federal court set a floor under Community Living Supports budgets, gave administrative law judges the power to...
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The Transition Crisis in Numbers: What the Data Actually Shows

Adult TransitionData & ResearchPolicy Analysis
The Transition Crisis in Numbers: What the Data Actually Shows Roughly fifty thousand autistic young people turn 18 every year in the United States. The research tracking what happens to...
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act: What $1 Trillion in Medicaid Cuts Means for Your Family

Budget & AppropriationsMedicaidMichigan-SpecificPolicy Analysis
What $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts means for your family Home and community based services are optional under federal Medicaid law. Nursing facilities are not. When federal money contracts, states...
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The Olmstead Rollback: What the Executive Order on Institutionalization Means for Your Family

ADA ComplianceAdvocacy ResourcesLegal DevelopmentsPolicy Analysis
The Olmstead Rollback: What the Executive Order on Institutionalization Means for Your Family On July 24, 2025, a federal executive order instructed the Attorney General to reverse the judicial precedents...
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The Michigan Advocacy Toolkit: 7 Free Resources Every Family Should Know

Advocacy ResourcesHow-To GuidesMichigan-Specific
The Michigan Advocacy Toolkit: 7 Free Resources Every Family Should Know Seven free, real, currently active tools and organizations, each doing something specific a Michigan family can put to use...
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The Michigan 5-Step Transition Survival Guide

Adult TransitionHow-To GuidesMichigan-Specific
The Michigan 5-Step Transition Survival Guide Five specific steps, in order, for a Michigan family navigating the years around their autistic child’s eighteenth birthday. No single one of these is...
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The Letter of Intent: A Successor Caregiver’s Field Manual

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The Letter of Intent: A Successor Caregiver’s Field Manual The single document that lets someone who has never lived with your adult know exactly how to support him next Tuesday....
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The HCBS Relief Act and HCBS Access Act: The Bills That Could Save Your Services

Advocacy ResourcesLegislative ActionMedicaidWaiting Lists
The two bills that could actually save your services One puts emergency money into a collapsing workforce for two years. The other removes the structural rule that makes an institution...
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The Gut-Brain Axis: When GI Distress Looks Like Behavior

Advocacy ResourcesDocumentation StrategiesHow-To GuidesLevel 2/3 Autism
The Gut-Brain Axis: When GI Distress Looks Like Behavior Common GI issues, how they often present as behavioral incidents in autistic adults with limited communication, the observation log that opens...
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