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...
Post-secondary options: supportive college vs vocational training Four-year college? Two-year certificate? Vocational rehab? Apprenticeship? Family enterprise? Some of these will change his life. Some will cost you fifty thousand dollars...
Adult elopement and wandering: safety that respects autonomy When your autistic adult walks away, the goal is not a locked door. It is a layered plan that keeps them alive...
Epilepsy and Seizure Safety in Autistic Adults Seizure types, adult-onset risk, medication interactions, and the safety planning that protects the highest-risk daily activities: bathing, sleeping, cooking, driving. The risk is...
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...
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...
Representative Payee Basics What a rep payee actually does, how the SSA application works, what the annual report demands, and why this narrow tool is not a substitute for a...
Healthcare Options Without Guardianship HIPAA, healthcare proxies, durable POAs, representative payees, and supported decision making. The instruments that handle most adult healthcare decisions without ever filing a court petition. By...
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...
Guardianship, Limited Guardianship, and Supported Decision Making A decision framework that starts with autonomy and ends with safety, broken down by the life domain that actually matters: medical, finances, housing,...
