WELCOME!
We provide a variety of services to help individuals with autism spectrum and related disorders prepare for a meaningful life in adulthood.
For Professionals
For Families
- Have you only had training/experience working with children?
- Not sure what skills to prioritize for adolescents?
- Feel bound to assessments & curricula?
- Consider the transition to adulthood a mystery?
- Want to help improve outcomes for those you work with?
- Do you wonder if your child is being taught the right skills?
- Want to help your child, but don’t know how?
- Feel overwhelmed or unheard in meetings about your child?
- Consider the transition to adulthood a mystery?
- Want to make sure your child has the best adult life possible?
For Parents
For Parents
- Do you wonder if your child is being taught the right skills?
- Want to help your child, but don’t know how?
- Feel overwhelmed or unheard in meetings about your child?
- Consider the transition to adulthood a mystery?
- Want to make sure your child has the best adult life possible?
Meaningful HOPE offers expert insight based on years of research regarding what skills improve adult outcomes.
Because every year, hundreds of thousands transition to adulthood without being adequately prepared to do so.
WHY WE DO IT
A Few Reasons...
- All individuals are entitled to live happy, safe, healthy, fulfilling, and dignified lives with the greatest level of independence possible.
- Most individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities enter the adult world without the skills necessary to be independent and function in society without support.
- Adult services in the United States are drastically deficient in terms of resources, funding, staffing, and access to needed services.
- For the most part, professionals and parents remain blissfully unaware of these realities that await them in adulthood until it is too late.
Did you Know ...
Taken together, approximately half of the adults on the spectrum in recent studies have poor outcomes in adulthood
Most adults with ASD remain living at home with their parents
or more adults with ASD are unemployed; those that are underemployed and underpaid
or more do not receive access to the services they need in adulthood
Over 1 million autistic teens are expected to enter the world of adulthood in the next decade – these problems will only continue to get worse if substantial change does not take place.
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