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Career > Finding Jobs
Supported Employment Services: Job Coaching and Placement Assistance
...fall short. Supported employment...structured support that helps...learn the work and stay employed...long-term. That support comes in two...assistance is the work of finding...community, with support that adjusts...sheltered work or volunteer...placement. What Supported Employment...Employment Means. Supported employment...training and support during the...phase Ongoing support includes long-term...
Career > Advancement
Executive Coaching and Career Counseling for Professionals with Disabilities
...in a gap between services designed for job seekers...for job seekers and services designed for executives...professionals who can support high-level career...disability employment support system is built primarily...for entry-level and supported employment. Job coaches...integration, and on-the-job support. That's essential...That's essential work, but it's not career...
Education > Special Education
Aging Out of Special Education: A Parent's Guide to Transition Services and 18-22 Programs
...special education services don't end at high...between school-based services and adult life. If...determine that transition services should begin at any...integrated employment, supported employment, or other...employment, or other work-based goals Independent...includes the transition services needed to help your...instruction, related services, community...
Global Insights > Employment
The Real Path to Employment: What Happens Between High School and Your Child's First Paycheck
...or who is supposed to help. The...need ongoing support to work. This...support to work. This article...who provides services at each stage,...what those services include, and...distinctions between supported employment...shape what work looks like...Transition services needed to...study, related services, and community...and adult services If your child...transition work, particularly...
Education > Special Education
IDEA at 50: What Trump's 2026 Budget Proposal Could Mean for Your Child's Services
...meeting wondering whether the services on that document will show...changing in ways that affect how services get delivered and enforced....block grant, the targeted work they support tends to lose...grant, the targeted work they support tends to lose its dedicated...the $39 million each that supported technical assistance networks...
Parenting > Adulthood
When Your Child Grows Up & Out of Special Ed
...would agree to work with him since...he had been at work sites starting...and/or expect for supported work services,...for supported work services, Social...supported work services, Social Security,...to give my son supported work services....son supported work services. Yet,...supported work services. Yet, I had done...lifetime child support for my son so...
Education > Higher Education
For Teens in Transition, an Opportunity
...lacked direction. The university environment had supported him academically, but he needed structure outside...potential to achieve it, he didn't have the life and work skills he needed to take on adult responsibilities....is a daunting prospect. Many legally mandated services have ended, and without them families find themselves...
News > Employment
Trump's Budget Would Eliminate Disability Employment Programs. Congress Rejected This Last Year. Here's What Families Can Do.
...training, and supported employment grants....and transition services that help young...lose access to support systems that...Rehabilitation Services Administration:...appeals when services are denied. The...and community services. FY2026 funding:...new employment support models. FY2026...eliminated. Supported Employment State...coaches who work directly with...
Legal > Government Benefits
25 States Sue to Block Medicaid's New Work Requirements Rule for Disabled Adults
...exemption from Medicaid's new work rule, this week's news...Medicare and Medicaid Services' interim final rule on...interim final rule on work requirements. The rule...First, the 80-hours-a-month work, school, or volunteer...exemption category that's supposed to protect people with...limit" their ability to work, on top of having a qualifying...
Therapies > Speech
Virtual Speech Therapy: Does It Work as Well as In-Person Sessions?
...systematic reviews comparing telehealth speech-language services to in-person sessions have found comparable outcomes...telehealth as they do in person, provided the platform supports real-time video, the session is structured the...positioning, like some oral-motor or feeding therapy work. Speech and language goals translate well to a...
News > Advocacy
Medicaid Work Rules Are Forcing States to Rebuild Their Systems. Here's What Disability Families Should Know Before Coverage Terminations Begin.
...the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services were supposed to give states the clarity...Medicare & Medicaid Services were supposed to give states the clarity they needed....legally exempt from the new Medicaid work requirements. Exemptions have to be...June 1, changed the terms of that work. Most significantly, they tightened...
Legal > Housing
Moving from a Nursing Home to Community Housing Under Olmstead
...what the law requires, how support programs work, and what steps...requires, how support programs work, and what steps families must...must provide community-based services when: Treatment professionals...needs of others receiving services This decision created an affirmative...lists and phase in community services, but they must demonstrate...