Guides & workbooks
Things you can use before your next meeting.
Printable, plain-language, and built for a parent who has about twenty minutes and a meeting on Thursday.
Free
One page · about four minutes
The Quick Audit
The 14 Critical Skills, one line each. Mark yes, not sure, or no, then add up your answers. It tells you plainly whether your child’s plan is pointed at adult life.
- All 14 Critical Skills on a single page
- A yes / not sure / no rating for each
- A scoring block that tells you what your answers mean
- Emailed to you — keep it, print it, bring it
For the meeting itself
The two that do the work.
One tells you what to say. The other tells you which goals are worth saying it about. Most parents use them together.
$19
PDF · word-for-word scripts for IEP and Treatment Plan meetings
The Meeting Kit
You know what you want to say. Then it’s six of them and one of you, everyone is being perfectly nice, and the right sentence arrives in the car on the way home. This is that sentence, written down beforehand.
- Word for word: how to request a goal, and how to challenge one
- What to say when the answer is no, and how to escalate one rung at a time
- A separate track for insurance-funded Treatment Plan meetings
- Fill-in follow-up templates, and a cheat sheet for the ten scripts you’ll use most
$9
Printable PDF · one worksheet per goal · print as many as you need
The Goal Audit System
Decide which of your child’s goals are actually worth the hours — one at a time, on paper, before you walk in. Three tests per goal, and a verdict you can say out loud and defend.
- The three tests every goal has to pass before it earns its place
- The two numbers already written in the plan — accuracy versus independence
- One printable worksheet per goal — print as many as you need
- A verdict for each: keep, raise the bar, replace, or ask about method
Free · no email needed
The 3 Signs series.
One page each. Three things to look for, and a sentence you can say out loud about each one. Free to download, free to print, free to send to another parent who needs it.
3 Signs Your Child’s Program Isn’t Preparing Them for Adulthood
The three things to look for first
3 Signs Your Child Is on the Wrong Curricular Path
Double digits, time to pivot
3 Signs Your Child Is Being Taught Like a Much Younger Child
Cues, rewards, and who hands them over
3 Signs A Skill Isn’t Going to Stick
Place, practice, and effort
In progress
What’s coming.
Coming soon
Spiral-bound · tabbed · built to last for years
The Workbook
The book’s tools are for thinking. The workbook is for the room. Your child’s advocacy record, from today until they age out of services.
- Your vision, written before and after — and rewritten every year
- The Critical Skills inventory, one page per domain
- Live meeting pages, in IEP and Treatment Plan versions
- When they say no: the barrier identifier and the escalation ladder
- Room to write fast and badly, on purpose
Coming soon
How to Prepare Your Child with Autism for Adulthood
Empowered Advocacy
The on-demand course. Three modules that move from why adult outcomes look the way they do, to what to ask for, to how to ask for it — with a workbook for each one.
- Module 1 — Awareness. What adulthood and adult services actually look like, and why your voice changes the outcome
- Module 2 — What to advocate for. The critical adaptive skills, planning backward from a long-term vision, and why how a skill is taught matters as much as which skill it is
- Module 3 — How to advocate. The real barriers to meaningful goals, plus your rights and your child’s rights under the law
- A workbook for every module
- Watch at your own pace, and rewatch before every meeting
Which one
Not sure where to start?
I just want to know if something is wrong
Start with the Quick Audit. Fourteen lines, four minutes, and a score that tells you plainly where you stand. If your number comes back high, the Meeting Kit is the next step.
I have a meeting coming up
The Meeting Kit. It’s the words, not the theory — what to say to request a goal, to challenge one, to ask how something is being taught, and what to do when the answer is no.
I’ve looked at the goals and I’m not sure they’re right
The Goal Audit System. One worksheet per goal, three tests each, and a verdict you can defend out loud. It feeds straight into the Meeting Kit.
I want to understand the whole thing
The book. The guides are tools; the book is the argument behind them — why these skills, why now, and why you are right to ask.
Get the Quick Audit — and know when the rest is ready.
The Quick Audit is free and takes about four minutes. Signing up is also how you’ll hear when the workbook and the Empowered Advocacy course go live, and when the book is out. One list, unsubscribe whenever.