Michigan’s Three Waivers Explained: HSW, MI Choice, and the Children’s WaiverMichigan runs three separate home and community based waivers, and they do not connect the way families assume. Different eligibility,...
42 states have supported decision-making laws. Michigan still doesn’t. Twenty-four states and DC have a supported decision-making statute. Eighteen more require courts to consider it before appointing a guardian. Michigan...
Customized employment: is it a real option for your high-support-needs adult? It is promoted specifically for people most affected by disability. A 2023 review found eighteen studies and zero randomized...
Service Animals, Therapy Animals, and Companion Animals: What Actually Helps Emotional marketing sells the idea of a service dog as a life-changing solution. Honest information about cost, timeline, and actual...
Smart Home Technology for Safety and Independence Affordable consumer technology has quietly gotten good enough to change daily safety and routine support. Almost nothing written about autism has caught up...
Disabled Adult Child (DAC) Benefits: The Social Security Upgrade Most Families Miss Your adult child may be entitled to Social Security benefits based on your earnings record, not theirs, the...
MiABLE accounts and Michigan-specific tax benefits Every dollar saved for your adult child’s future used to threaten the $2,000 SSI asset limit. MiABLE changed that math, and Michigan added a...
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...
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...
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...
