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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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,...
