Tips for Planning Financial Security Beyond Childhood

• By: Christin Kennedy, BS, BCaBA Kennedy ABA
• September 25th, 2026
• ABLE accounts, adult Medicaid, autism financial planning, financial independence, guardianship alternatives, special needs trust, SSI benefits, transition to adulthood
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The financial systems that support a child mostly disappear at eighteen. Here's how families can plan for the system that replaces them. Most of the financial planning conversations that happen in early intervention and school-age ABA services are, understandably, focused on the here and now:...