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News > Advocacy
Minnesota Just Disenrolled 61% of Its Medicaid Disability Providers. Other States Are Running the Same Audit. Here's What Families Need to Do Now.
...providers, adult day services, mental health programs, and Integrated Community Supports (ICS) for people with spinal cord injuries and disabilities. Matthew Barry's...Josh Berg runs Accessible Space Inc., which provides Integrated Community Supports (in-unit assistance for people with spinal cord injuries and disabilities)....
Lifestyle > Independence
Life Skills Milestones for Children with Cerebral Palsy
...building the self-care capabilities that support their independence as they grow. Understanding...learned, what adaptive strategies support them, and which milestones are realistic...buttoning but develop verbal self-advocacy skills earlier than expected. Progress...most for your child's daily life, supported by whatever accommodations, devices,...
Career > Skills Training
Pre-ETS for Students with IEPs: Workplace Skills Before Graduation
...are designed to build job skills while school supports are still in place. Pre-ETS isn't a replacement...education counseling, and instruction in self-advocacy. Both systems work together. Accessing Pre-ETS...Accessing Pre-ETS early means your student gets more support, not duplicated effort. What Pre-ETS Includes....
Career > Interviewing
Behavioral Interview Questions and Disability: Reframing Work Experience
...came of it. If you've coordinated your own medical care across multiple specialists, advocated for accommodations in an educational setting, led a support group, or solved logistical problems that required adaptive thinking, you have legitimate answers. You just need to know how to frame them. What Behavioral...
News > Advocacy
The Federal Agency That Funds Independence for People with Disabilities Is Being Eliminated. Here's What Families Need to Know.
...Independent Living, caregiver support programs, disability research,...services, home and community-based support, and advocacy infrastructure....community-based support, and advocacy infrastructure. What ACL Does....community-based programs, supporting more than 12.8 million...National Family Caregiver Support Program: Provides respite...
News > Lifestyle
Teaching Life Skills for Independence: A Parent's Roadmap
...medication, describing symptoms, scheduling appointments. Communication and self-advocacy: Asking for help, stating preferences, understanding rights, navigating...in mind. Which tasks can they do without prompting? Which require your support? Which haven't been introduced at all? Write it down. That list, even if...
News > Advocacy
After High School: What Families Need to Know About Transition Planning
...appropriate public education. No more IEP. The support structure that's been there since preschool ends,...what comes next: college, vocational training, supported employment, community living. This planning should...skills does my child need to hold a job? What supports will they need to live as independently as possible?...
Legal > Advocacy
Supported Decision-Making: An Alternative to Guardianship
...foundation of supported decision-making....role as a supporter without...do nothing. Supported decision-making...path. What Supported Decision-Making...Decision-Making Is. Supported decision-making...rights. The supporter doesn't...They choose supporters they trust:...mentors. Those supporters help them...recognize supported decision-making...enacted its Supported Decision-Making...Guardianship. Supported decision-making...
Education > K-12
Transition Planning Through K-12: Preparing Your Child for School Changes
...the new building, and unless you know exactly what to advocate for, those supports slip away before the ink dries. This is the version of transition planning...kind that starts in 5th grade, and again in 8th, and requires the same advocacy muscle each time. When to Start Elementary-to-Middle Transition Planning....
Education > Higher Education
Teaching Self-Advocacy Skills for College: A Transition Checklist
...What replaces it is self-advocacy. And here's what makes...schools provide self-advocacy instruction in transition...whether they get the supports they need. Then they...good news is that self-advocacy is a skill, not a personality...ever leaves home. Self-Advocacy Is Procedural Knowledge....and parents treat self-advocacy as something you either...
Special Needs > Learning Differences
IEP or 504: Which Plan Does Your Child with a Learning Difference Need?
...the two plans operate under different laws, provide different levels of support, and require different kinds of advocacy from you. Choosing the wrong one...laws, provide different levels of support, and require different kinds of advocacy from you. Choosing the wrong one or accepting what's offered without understanding...
Special Needs > Dyslexia
Dyslexia and College: How Accommodations Change and What Students Need to Know
...college, and you assume the same support system follows you. It doesn't work...because schools must identify and support students with disabilities. In college,...with dyslexia can absolutely get the support they need in college, but the process...requires a different kind of self-advocacy, and most students don't realize that...