How to Testify at the Michigan Legislature: A Practical Guide for Families Three minutes. That’s often all the time a family gets in front of a legislative committee. Used well,...
Housing for Adults with Significant Behavioral Challenges When providers say “we can’t take him,” the answer is rarely about him. The answer is usually about their staffing and their behavior-support...
Group Homes, Supported Living, Shared Living, Intentional Communities Four housing models compared on the four variables that actually matter: autonomy, staffing, cost structure, and who controls the lease. Plus the...
Healthcare Decisions and Rights at Age 18 The day your child turns eighteen, the law reassigns every healthcare authority you have spent eighteen years building. Here is the punch-list to...
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...
Functional AAC for Adults: It’s Not Too Late How to introduce AAC in adulthood, choose goals that matter (pain, consent, real preferences, not the color of the cat), and work...
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,...
Evaluating Providers and Avoiding Snake Oil: A Skeptic’s Guide for Autism Families An entire industry of questionable providers targets families precisely because the legitimate service system is so inadequate. Knowing...
Executive Function Support When Structure Is Resisted Four low-conflict strategies for adults who resist top-down structure: choice architecture, micro-routines, externalized memory, non-verbal prompting. The scaffolding the adult never has to...
Financial Scams and Exploitation Targeting Adults with Disabilities Red flags, prevention, credit freezes, safe spending tools, and how to report. Why adults with disabilities are targeted more often, what the...
