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It’s been a busy season at NeuroHomes, and I wanted to share where things currently stand for us. Two Davey Awards for the podcast Our Autistic Standpoint Theory podcast just won two 2026 Davey Awards. It took Gold in the Podcast Series, Student category and Silver in Belonging & Inclusion. The Daveys honor small teamsContinue reading “Fall 2026 Update: Awards, Progress and What’s Next”

In my sociology research at WSU, I have been studying the patterns that AI reason and communicate with. This morning I asked the AI assistant Claude by Anthropic a neutral, general legal question. It answered, and then tacked on advice about a personal situation I hadn’t mentioned, one it had pieced together from things I’dContinue reading “Asking the GSA through the Freedom of Information Act: Who Tested the Front Door for Accessibility?”

When we discuss the homelessness crisis, the conversation too often begins and ends with addiction or mental illness. But as Dr. Monty Ghosh recently highlighted in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, this is a dangerous oversimplification. In reality, we are facing a hidden cognition crisis. Dr. Monty Ghosh’s recent commentary in the Canadian Medical AssociationContinue reading “The Hidden Cognition Crisis: Why America’s Missing Safety Net is a Human Rights Issue”

People use “neurodivergent” so often now that it can start to feel like a label that’s always existed, something clinical and settled. It isn’t. The term is barely three decades old, and it didn’t come from a lab or a diagnostic manual. It came from autistic people talking to each other. The word “neurodiversity” isContinue reading “Where “Neurodivergent” Came From, and Why It Matters for What We’re Building”

There’s a story urban planners like to tell about curb cuts, those small ramped slopes carved into sidewalks at intersections. They were fought for by disability activists in the 1970s, designed for wheelchair users who had no way to cross a street without being lifted over a six-inch ledge. Cities resisted for years, treating theContinue reading “The Curb Cut and the Key: What Finland Can Teach Us About Housing”

Society keeps autistic nervous systems in a near-constant state of fight or flight, and NeuroHomes exists to treat that damage, the wear a body takes on from being asked, every day, to meet demands it was never built to meet. That’s not a metaphor. It’s the actual mechanism, and until we start treating it asContinue reading “Regulation Isn’t a Crisis Response. It’s Maintenance.”

A recent op-ed from Ford Foundation’s Lane Sugata and Disability & Philanthropy Forum’s Sandy Ho lays out a pattern that’s familiar to anyone who has spent time inside systems built for someone else’s body and someone else’s pace. Their core argument is simple and a little uncomfortable: philanthropy tends to fund disabled artists as artistsContinue reading “Autism as Artism: Why Our Makerspace and Creator Grants Fund Start With Disability, Not Around It”

On Play Street, NeuroBloom, and why NeuroHomes is building the therapy layer to travel This week, five mothers in Humboldt County opened Play Street, the region’s first curated multi-sensory environment for kids with autism, sensory processing differences, and developmental disabilities. No agency built it. No institution funded it into existence. Five parents looked at whatContinue reading “Five Mothers, One Room, and a Pattern”

Something is changing in the way this country thinks about housing for neurodivergent and disabled adults. This week, Disability Scoop reported on the quiet but growing emergence of neuroinclusive neighborhoods across the United States, communities where people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) live in their own homes, alongside neurotypical neighbors who have chosen toContinue reading “A National Movement Is Taking Shape, and NeuroHomes Is Part of It”

A Texas mother watches her son deteriorate in a county jail. He has the cognitive capacity of a child. He has not been convicted of anything, and he is waiting for a bed that may not come for another year. Shawn Fraraccio is 26 years old. He has an intellectual disability. He has been sittingContinue reading “When There Is No Door to Open”

Autistic people are dramatically overrepresented in homeless populations by at least 6 times the general population rate, and by some estimates considerably more. Research screening homeless outreach caseloads found 12.3% met DSM-5 autism criteria, against a general population prevalence of roughly 1-2%. A 2022 systematic review spanning 17 studies found prevalence estimates of autistic traitsContinue reading “Autistics experiencing homelessness”

The research on healthcare access barriers for autistic adults documents something that people with lived experience already know: the healthcare system was not built for us.But healthcare access does not begin at the clinic door. It begins with whether someone has a stable address. A phone number that works. The cognitive bandwidth left over afterContinue reading “The Housing-Health Connection: Why Stable Housing Is Healthcare for ND Adults”

When we first launched this site in 2021, NeuroHomes was an early concept and a vision with community support but no legal structure, no capital strategy, and no development timeline.That has changed.NeuroHomes is now organized as a hybrid nonprofit and social purpose corporation. We have a 20-year financial model, an active capital strategy anchored byContinue reading “NeuroHomes Is Moving”

Every year, over 50,000 youth with ASD enter adulthood in the USA. According to an article called ‘Tackling healthcare access barriers for individuals with autism from diagnosis to adulthood,’ published on 25 March 2021, most individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)—a complex, life-long developmental disorder—do not have access to the care required to address theirContinue reading “Healthcare Barriers for ASD Adults”