Parents: Where to Start

This resource includes Planning Essentials before Your Child with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disability Turns 18. A useful to do list for your child with special needs is attached in the graphic to the right.

Getting Your Teenager ready for Adulthood.

This resource includes Planning Essentials before Your Child with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disability Turns 18.
Click
here for useful to-do list for the parents of a child with special needs.

Getting a Housing Subsidy.

If your adult child with IDD is ready to try living away from their parents—
or if you are ready for them to try—
then apply for the Housing Subsidy available in the
Self-Direction program. Click
here for a 2-page guide.

Find your local legislators.