Why Your IEP Transition Plan Is Probably Failing (And What to Fix) Research on IEP transition plans finds an average of roughly three goals per student, with barely more than...
When Your Adult Has No Friends: Practical Steps for Connection Friendship is not a count. Connection is what the post is about. Why the social-skills-training era over-counted, what supported social...
What Happens at a Guardianship Hearing Court procedure, demystified. The petition you draft, the evaluation that gets ordered, the questions the judge actually asks, and the evidence that decides whether...
Vocational Rehabilitation: using services before school ends State Vocational Rehabilitation is federally funded, free, and legally required to serve your student before graduation. Most families do not open the file...
Trauma-Informed Healthcare for Autistic Adults Why a routine doctor visit can feel like a battle, why the body remembers the last time, and what to bring with you so the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
SSI at 18 and the Age-18 Redetermination Why eligibility shifts the day a young adult turns eighteen, why initial denial rates are brutally high, and how to start documentation at...
