Building the Vision: 5 Steps to Prepare for Your Child’s Life After Special Education Services
Aug 25, 2021Let’s pretend you are a parent of a child with an intellectual or developmental disability, or the like, and are lying in bed worrying about what their life will be like as an adult. It’s likely you are sweating from worry, probably tossing and turning because you don’t know where to start or who to talk to, and at some point you reach for your phone to Google something (which is possibly what led you to this blog post).
Maybe you read that scenario above and didn’t have to pretend because you have lived it (glad Google brought you here). Or, maybe you know you need to be worrying about your child’s future life as an adult, but your brain just hasn’t found the time to let you.
Here are the top 5 things you can begin to do to prepare for life after the school bus stops coming.
Build the Vision
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