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Legal > Housing
Moving from a Nursing Home to Community Housing Under Olmstead
For thousands of people with disabilities...States, the promise of community integration...paper but remains out of reach in practice....provide pathways out of institutional care,...of institutional care, but navigating the...unjustified segregation of people with disabilities...resources and the needs of others receiving...states to develop systems that allow people...
Career > Skills Training
Pre-ETS for Students with IEPs: Workplace Skills Before Graduation
...IEPs can access a separate set of federally-funded workplace readiness...instruction in self-advocacy. Both systems work together. Accessing Pre-ETS...disabilities ages 14-21, all of which are mandated services...identify interests, strengths, and career pathways that match their...skills. This isn't a one-time career assessment. It's ongoing counseling...
Career > Skills Training
Teamwork and Collaboration Skills Training for Autistic Adults
...innate. They're learned systems, and when social communication...differences are part of your baseline, those...your baseline, those systems need to be taught explicitly....relationship-building. None of this is explained in...different operating system. Direct communication...masking to the point of exhaustion. What Teamwork...teaches the mechanics of group work as explicit...
Career > Finding Jobs
American Job Centers: Free Employment Services by State
...job boards that list hundreds of irrelevant postings, applications...that vanish into automated systems, and networking advice that...there's a federally-funded system designed specifically to address...job seekers have never heard of them. What American Job Centers...apprenticeships. You'll meet with a career counselor who can connect...
Career > Finding Jobs
Supported Employment Services: Job Coaching and Placement Assistance
...what you need, while managing a disability: that's where most employment systems fall short. Supported employment is built specifically for this gap: competitive...on-the-job training and problem-solving. Placement assistance is the work of finding the right position and employer in the first place. Together, they...
Career > Advancement
Skills Transferability: Reframing Disability Experience as Professional Assets
...specialists, advocating for accommodations, and building systems that work when your body doesn't cooperate. That's...represents limitation. You've internalized enough of that bias to hesitate before positioning accommodation...Identifying Your Transferable Skills. Start with the systems you've built to function day-to-day. What processes...
Career > Advancement
Documenting Achievements When Performance Metrics Don't Capture Your Contributions
...onboarding time in half. None of that shows up in your quarterly...made. You need a portfolio system that captures what you...Most performance tracking systems measure individual output:...to point to as evidence of your impact. You might...might do the cognitive work of translating between departments,...document the full scope of what you deliver when the...
Career > Advancement
Remote Work and Career Mobility: Expanding Advancement Opportunities
...Quietly Blocked Advancement. Career mobility has always carried...Moving disrupts established care networks. It means finding new...housing, and leaving support systems that took years to develop....support already exist. The career ladder no longer requires...projects and who managers thought of when openings appeared. For...
Legal > Government Benefits
CMS Just Delayed Key HCBS Safeguards by 17 Months. Here's What Families Receiving Home Care Should Do Now.
...formal grievance system for Medicaid home...The grievance system was part of the...system was part of the Medicaid Access...report to CMS. That system isn't happening...with electronic systems as the reason...Medicaid home care waivers, this...lists. The home care system is stressed,...The home care system is stressed, and...until the end of 2027. You don't...
Assistive Tech > Mobility
Adaptive Strollers vs. Wheelchairs: Which Mobility Device Does Your Child Need?
...Special Tomato, and Kimba aren't just bigger versions of typical strollers. They're prescribed durable medical...need to fit equipment in a standard vehicle, and caregiver-controlled mobility when a child can't self-propel....seating angles for feeding and rest, and harness systems that keep kids safe without restraining them unnecessarily....
Research > Assistive Tech
Choosing AAC Devices Based on Research: What the Evidence Says About Effectiveness
...yourself staring at dozens of options: tablets loaded...speech-generating devices, eye-gaze systems, picture boards, communication...child communicate. None of them tells you which one...Shows. Systematic reviews of AAC outcomes consistently...with AAC apps, eye-gaze systems) produce better results...turns. Still others measure caregiver satisfaction or functional...
Global Insights > Healthcare
The Healthcare Transition at 21: How to Prepare Your Child (and Yourself) for the Shift to Adult Care
...disabilities transfer to adult care. They smoke more than their...It's about entering a system that wasn't designed for...disabilities. Fewer than half of children with special healthcare...and what to do when the system doesn't meet you halfway....population, and how to adjust care plans for cognitive or...doctors, specialists in adult systems) were trained on adult-onset...