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...
Preparing for Your Own Hospitalization: The Caregiver Emergency No One Plans For You plan for every crisis your adult child might face. The one that keeps you up at night...
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...
Autism and the Criminal Justice System: When Your Adult Child Is a Suspect, Victim, or Witness Autistic adults are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system, in every role that...
Navigating Hospitals: Inpatient Stays When Your Autistic Adult Needs Surgery or Extended Care Caregivers consistently describe an inpatient hospital stay as among the worst experiences of their entire caregiving life....
Grooming Battles: Hair, Nails, Shaving, and Personal Hygiene for Sensory-Defensive Adults No service category exists for the invisible daily battle over a haircut. It still consumes more caregiver time and...
Incontinence in Autistic Adults: Management, Dignity, and Getting Help One of the most common daily realities of caregiving for a Level 2 or 3 adult, and one of the least...
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...
Managing Self-Injurious Behavior and Aggression at Home: Safety Without Restraint System-level crisis response gets written about constantly. What actually happens in your living room, alone, at eleven at night, almost...
Aging with Autism: What Happens in the 40s, 50s, and Beyond The first generation diagnosed with autism in childhood is now reaching middle age, and almost no one can tell...
