People with disabilities, their families and friends, and those who work with them in professional capacities understand that the vast...

Recently, I watched Patrice: The Movie , available on Hulu.  Happy/sad and honest, “Patrice” makes it clear why the term “special needs”...

Clients sometimes begin their outreach by expressing concern that their application for Social Security Disability benefits will be...

Most financial planners advise individuals and couples to create a Social Security filing strategy that maximizes benefits payable but...

I took myself and my sons to a new dentist recently.  I had to fill out the usual new-patient paperwork.  On the list of questions...

While the variety of Medicaid eligibility categories can cause confusion, they are welcome to the extent that they allow people with...

In this short series of posts, I am talking about Medicaid eligibility for people with disabilities.  Most states, including my home...

Dental and gum health, it turns out, are important to the health of the rest of our body.  So, we all need to brush our teeth.  Growing...

Taxes are one of those certainties of life.  They may go up, they may go down, but they won’t go away.  The best that taxpayers, with...

Education planning, by which we financial - plann ing professionals and our clients mean primarily planning to fund postsecondary education for children or grandchildren, is its own module within comprehensive financial planning.  That is because, for many students and their families, postsecondary education will require a significant outlay.  The same is true for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities who want to attend an inclusive post-secondary educatio

College was where I first experimented with (part-time) vegetarianism from which, happily, the dining halls’ weak attempt at fried tofu...

According to a survey conducted by the website “Best Colleges,” the top five reasons that students gave for attending postsecondary...

In this second in my series of blogs on I nclusive Postsecondary Education (IPSE) for students with intellectual disabilities, I am going...

I just came back from our summer family road trip to Colorado during which, due to relaxed vacation rules, our sons ate way more food...

Transition programs and post-secondary programs for young people with disabilities are building in an increasing amount of real-world,...

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of meeting another prospective client family. An initial meeting is the time for the clients to tell me...

In my favorite science fiction TV series, Star Trek, the characters sometimes play a three-dimensional version of chess. In the Harry...

In the Aesop fable “The Crow and the Pitcher”, a crow drops stones one by one into the neck of a tall, narrow pitcher. Before it dropped...

Here in greater Chicago, and (I expect in many other densely urban settings) we frequently think of distance in terms of time. When I am...

“Former” can signify respect—“Former president”, or “Former Olympic athlete”. Or nostalgia—“Former member of the rock band Journey” or...