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 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...
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...
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...
Technology as a Lifeline: Communication, Scheduling, and Safety Tools AAC, visual schedules, medication reminders, GPS wearables, smart-home prompts. Five categories of practical technology that scaffold adult autistic life, plus the...
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...
Seven tax breaks disability caregivers keep leaving on the table Most families supporting an adult child with a disability claim two of these. The other five exist, are legal, and...
Social Coaching vs Traditional Social Skills Training The shift away from masking and toward neurodiversity-affirming support. What coaching actually looks like in practice, why the old curriculum produced compliant adults...
Special Needs Trusts: First-Party, Third-Party, and Pooled Three trust structures, one critical rule about Medicaid payback, and the most common mistake families make: putting the inheritance directly into the autistic...
