The Two Conversations About Autism That Never MeetThirty one states have written Employment First into law. The Lancet Commission has defined a quarter of autistic people as needing round the...
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...
Employment First is failing Level 3 adults, and nobody’s tracking the outcomes Thirty-one states passed Employment First legislation. The national competitive integrated employment rate for people served by state disability...
The Drexel study: 99% of autistic adults are not receiving public employment services Researchers matched nine years of Medicaid and Vocational Rehabilitation records against the population that needed help working....
Project SEARCH and other Michigan employment pathways A year spent training entirely inside a real workplace, not a classroom simulation, changes what employers see and what students believe about themselves....
Michigan Rehabilitation Services: the employment resource nobody mentions Michigan Rehabilitation Services is federally mandated to provide free employment services to people with disabilities, autism included, starting years before graduation. Most...
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...
