Life Planning for Your Adult Child

Look up the word adulting in the Urban Dictionary and you will find "Adulting - Verb - requires action to do grown-up things and hold responsibilities such as a 9-5 job, a mortgage or rent, a car payment, or anything else that makes one think of grown-ups. But what does this look like for an adult child with autism? Are you ready for that phase of their lives? Perhaps it has arrived and you still have not completed their full future plans for Money, Job, Housing, Friends, Transportation, Food, Safety, and yes, even their final resting place. You won't be here to do that part, so ALL of it needs to be planned out. What an overwhelming task to do!! We can help you. We will write a roadmap for you to follow, step-by-step, not expensive either. If you have Self-Directed Services in NY and your child is over 18, contact us and through that plan, our services can be covered.

With our support as parents, our children can learn how to complete tasks that we can build into their routines. In the meantime, the parent must be diligently setting up the future for their child. All with our continued support. We at Advocates For Autism have examples of our own children who are now adults, to be considered by many to be successes. They work a little, have a few friends, and even have their own houses. But above all they are well-liked in the community. Isn't that all we wanted for our kids? But someone along the way they started to fade from us as the autism took over like a veil. It covered everything and it was everywhere, and we spent our time, all of our time, getting through the best we could. Now they are adults and now this is the final push that counts. It will take work, but we can get you through.