Why you should own the expertise you have on your child because of the thousands of hours you’ve spent raising them. Trust you know them better than the professionals at their school or the therapists that may help them. Their future needs should be guided by you until they are ready to make decisions about their own future.

One of the key steps towards independence is being able to cook for ourselves. But if your young person has additional needs, there are sometimes physical and sequencing challenges to overcome when learning the skills required to prepare an actual meal. My daughter found parts of cooking...

The more our children can do for themselves the greater their sense of self-worth. And let’s be honest the less dependent they are on us. Being able to do their laundry might seem like a small thing to many people but it’s all about building up daily living skills and creating that feeling they can do more for themselves

Having gone through this life plan journey with my daughter, I want to encourage a million other families supporting a young person with additional needs to make a life plan with them.