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Practical guides on autism, skill building, and the small moments that change a family's life, written by the clinicians and specialists at Levi Life Skills, serving the San Fernando Valley and Santa Clarita.
How to Potty Train an Autistic Child When Nothing Works
Most potty training advice says to wait for signs of readiness. For a lot of autistic kids that signal never arrives. Here is the schedule we run instead, the honest timeline, and what to do when the poop stalls.
Life Skills Development
4 Questions to Ask a Provider Before You Sign Again
The last one did not work out, and now every agency on your list says the same four things. Four questions that tell them apart, what a real answer sounds like, and the one answer that should end the conversation.
What Is Adaptive Skills Training? And How to Ask for It
Nobody teaches getting dressed, cooking, buses, or money. They are supposed to arrive on their own. When they do not, your Regional Center funds someone to teach them, at any age, in your own home. The email that asks is at the end.
Where Autistic Kids Meet Other Kids: 10 Places That Work
Signing them up for something and hoping is how most of these end. Ten places sorted by age, from 2 through high school, what each one costs, and the question to ask before you pay for anything.
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Where Autistic Adults Meet People: 10 Places That Work
School handed them a room full of people five days a week, for free. Then it stopped. Ten places an autistic adult can be around other people, what each one costs, and who pays for it.
Life Skills Development
How to Help Your Autistic Child Play With Kids at the Park
Kids who stand at the edge of the playground usually want in and don't know the way. Four coaching moves, run from a step behind, that fade you back to the bench over six to eight visits.
Parenting Strategies
NLACRC IPP Meeting: What to Ask For in 2026
Nobody reads you the menu at an IPP meeting. Here are the six services families most often qualify for and never request, the words to say for each, and what to do the moment somebody says no.
Parenting Strategies
ESY Denied in California: A Parent's Step-by-Step Guide
Your district ran one of the three legal tests for ESY and stopped. Here are the other two, the email that forces a second meeting, and what Regional Center can pay for if the answer is still no.
Regional Center & Services
Will Medicaid Cuts Affect My Child's Regional Center Services?
Nobody is going to flip a switch. Here is what California law still guarantees, what you are likely to feel instead, and the four things to do this month that make the difference.
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