Addition By Subtraction: When The Other Parent Leaves Ten years ago my wife left. Six years ago I taped a note to the front door and she never came back....
The Two Conversations About Autism That Never MeetThirty one states have written Employment First into law. The Lancet Commission has defined a quarter of autistic people as needing round the...
By the numbers: the adult autism services gap in 7 charts Seven federal figures, none of them controversial, none of them disputed. Put them side by side and the gap...
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...
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...
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...
Project SEARCH and other Michigan employment pathways A year spent training entirely inside a real workplace, not a classroom simulation, changes what employers see and what students believe about themselves....
The ‘Age 26 rule’ for extended transition services Most states cut special education off at 22. Michigan doesn’t, if your family member has a cognitive impairment eligibility and was already...
The age-21 cliff when the Medicaid Autism Benefit ends Michigan’s Medicaid Autism Benefit does not send a warning letter before it ends. It simply stops on a birthday, and what...
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...
