…and Community-Based Services in integrated settings that offer full access to the community. Home and community-based services are an important source of support for many people with disabilities who need…
…adults and those with other developmental disabilities, the ACA expands Medicaid coverage for comprehensive community-based personal attendant services in addition to strengthening and incentivizing coverage for home and community based…
…The article, describing an incident in which a teacher put an Autistic child in a bag with a drawstring in a school hallway, can be read on national news sites…
…exploiting those it purports to help. The letter will be released on Wednesday, October 7 by the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), the leading advocacy organization run by and for…
…is a form you can fill out for a bank. It says that a supporter (the authorized signer or authorized signatory) can see your bank account. They can also take…
…in his back and another’s grip on his arm.”3 The JRC website describes these practices as “intensive treatment procedures”4 but almost every national disability organization agrees that the use of…
…(CMS) announced a new rule that may help people get the services they need in truly integrated settings. The new rule sets forth standards for the settings where people receive…
…support the EMPOWER Care Act and the MFP program. Medicaid Balancing Incentive Program (BIP) The Balancing Incentive Program (BIP) was a Medicaid program created by a healthcare bill called the…
…living: The Home and Community-Based Services Settings rule (HCBS Settings Rule) is a very important regulation. It controls HCBS services that are funded by Medicaid. Long term services and supports…
…barely even the floor. The basement. Sub-basement. As our founder, Ari Ne’eman, likes to say, autism researchers often seem to wish they were geologists, conducting research on subjects that don’t…
