A Place of Their Own: Residential Services for Soon-to-Be Adults with Autism

• By: Marina Sarris Interactive Autism Network, Kennedy Krieger Institute
• July 1st, 2013
• adult autism services, family caregiving, housing support, independent living, Medicaid waivers, planning, service shortages, transition to adulthood, waiting lists
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An unprecedented number of families will soon watch their children with autism leave school and flood the adult disability system. Up to a half million children with autism will reach adulthood in the next decade, according to estimates.1, 2 These children, the first wave of the so-called...