Home and Community-Based Services

• Olmstead Decision
• Community-Based Long Term Supports and Services – The Arc
• Accessing Home and Community-Based Services: A Guide for Self Advocates – Autism NOW Center and Autistic Self Advocacy Network
• Toolkit on Improving Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) – Autistic Self Advocacy Network
• Home & Community Based Services – Medicaid.gov
• A Self-Advocate’s Guide to Managed Long-Term Supports and Services – Autistic Self Advocacy Network

Augmentative and Alternative Communication

• ‘Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Speaking Autistic Adults: Overview and Recommendations’ by Dr. Alyssa Hillary and Dr. Elizabeth Dalton
• Communication First
• All About AAC: A Guide to Augmentative and Alternative Communication Options! – Just Keep Stimming (check the resources list at the end!)

Supported Decision Making

• Tennessee Center for Decision-Making Support
  • Supported Decision Making Fact Sheet
• The Right to Make Choices: New Resource on Supported Decision-Making – Autistic Self Advocacy Network
• Decision-Making in Health Care of Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Promoting Capabilities – Developmental Disabilities Health Care E-Toolkit Project, Vanderbilt University
• Charting the LifeCourse Framework

Communication Bill of Rights

• NWACS Communication Bill of Rights FAQ – Northwest Augmentative Communication Society
• Communication Bill of Rights – American Speech and Hearing Association

AAC and DSPs

• Stepping Into AAC Training – Angelman Syndrome Foundation and PrAACtical AAC
• AAC Essentials Training – Tech OWL, Institute on Disabilities at Temple University
• Best Practices for Implementing AAC Devices – Lilly’s Voice

Communication and Dysregulation

• Behavior Support Checklist – Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities
• Evaluation of Behavior Change – Office of Developmental Primary Care, UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine
• Understanding Autism, Aggression and Self-Injury: Medical Approaches and Best Support Practices – Clarissa Kripke, MD, FAAFP; Clinical Professor UCSF Family and Community Medicine; Director of Developmental Primary Care

Safety

• Preventing and Addressing Sexual Assault of People with I/DD – Administration for Community Living
• Fact sheet: Ending violence against women and girls with disabilities – UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women
• Crime Against Persons with Disabilities, 2009–2019 – Statistical Tables – U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Disabled children continue to face high rates of abuse, global study finds – Holland Bloorview Children’s Rehabilitation Hospital
• Global estimates of violence against children with disabilities: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis – The Lancet, Child and Adolescent Health
• AAC users need vocabulary to talk about sex, sexuality, and body parts – Donnie TC Denome, MPH; AssistiveWare
• It’s Important to Use the Correct Names for Parts of the Body. Here’s Why. – Nationwide Children’s Hospital