Pain Assessment in Nonverbal Autistic Adults: When Behavior IS the Symptom A broken bone, a kidney stone, an abscessed tooth. None of them announce themselves with words in an adult...
Person-centered planning when there are no real options Sometimes the honest answer is that the county has nothing that fits. Person-centered planning does not require pretending otherwise. It requires writing...
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....
Menstruation and Reproductive Health Management for Autistic Women and Girls Caregivers ask about this constantly in every support group that exists. Published guidance almost never answers them, because almost everything...
Meaningful activity when employment is not realistic Not everyone can hold a competitive job. That does not mean the day has to be television. Contribution, mastery, and connection are the...
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...
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...
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...
Grief, loss, and big changes: supporting processing and regulation Grandma dies. The Saturday worker leaves. You move. Your autistic adult was silent at the funeral and is now, three months...
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...
