The Functioning Labels Debate: Why It Matters for Your Family’s Advocacy This isn’t an academic argument happening somewhere else. It shapes policy, drives funding decisions, and determines whether your adult...
The ER with an Autistic Adult: Preparing for the Visit You Can’t Avoid Every caregiver of a Level 2 or 3 adult eventually faces this. Almost every one of them...
What Maine’s billion dollar hole teaches Michigan Community based support costs roughly a third of institutional care, generates more economic activity per dollar than most state spending, and is the...
The Drexel study: 99% of autistic adults are not receiving public employment services Researchers matched nine years of Medicaid and Vocational Rehabilitation records against the population that needed help working....
The CMS Access Rule: 5 new requirements that could transform HCBS if they survive A 2024 federal rule tells states how much of your adult child’s service dollar has to...
The binder that could save your family: building a lifetime advocacy record Nine sections, one three-ring binder, and a rule about writing things down that has settled more disputes in...
The “Benefits Cliff”: Work, Medicaid, and Keeping Supports How part-time work actually affects SSI and Medicaid, why the cliff is mostly a wall built by misinformation, and the federal work...
The ARPA cliff: what happens now that the emergency HCBS money is gone States planned to spend an estimated $37.1 billion on home and community based services, most of it...
The ADA at 35: Why Severe Autism Still Gets Left Behind by the Law’s Own Framework Thirty-five years after the Americans with Disabilities Act became law, a July 2025 report...
The trillion dollar workforce nobody pays Fifty nine million Americans provide 49.5 billion hours of unpaid care each year. AARP values it at $1.01 trillion. That is more than every...
