Teaching independent living skills with realistic goals “Independent” was always the wrong word. Nobody does laundry, cooking, or hygiene entirely alone; they do it with habits, reminders, and tools nobody...
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...
Sensory-Friendly Home Design for Adults Five concrete changes that turn a typical home into a sensory-stable environment. Lighting, sound dampening, safe stim spaces, clutter zoning, reset corners. The connection to...
Safety risks of idle time for severe autism Self-injury, aggression, and elopement rarely arrive without warning. For many adults with significant support needs, they follow boredom the way smoke follows...
MI-CARE Clinic and other IDD-affirming care models Fifteen-minute appointments and rushed exam rooms fail autistic adults in specific, predictable ways. A handful of Michigan clinics built something different. Most families...
Intentional communities (LINCs, ICW) and alternatives to group homes Group homes run on facility schedules, not individual ones. A small number of Michigan communities flipped that arrangement, giving adults their...
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...
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...
Functional AAC for Adults: It’s Not Too Late How to introduce AAC in adulthood, choose goals that matter (pain, consent, real preferences, not the color of the cat), and work...
Executive Function Support When Structure Is Resisted Four low-conflict strategies for adults who resist top-down structure: choice architecture, micro-routines, externalized memory, non-verbal prompting. The scaffolding the adult never has to...
