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:...

Adulthood Isn’t a Birthday: The Systems That Make Financial Autonomy Possible for Autistic Adults

• By: Joshua W.J. Brown Writer, Filmmaker, and Independent Researcher
• September 25th, 2026
• autistic adults, disability support, executive functioning, financial autonomy, financial systems, guardianship alternatives, independence, supported decision-making
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I became a legal adult on a birthday. Financial autonomy took longer. Those two things are constantly treated as though they happen at the same moment. At eighteen, the law can recognize a person as capable of signing contracts, opening accounts, consenting to services, travelling, working,...