Chris & Becky Fry
Every guide here is researched and written by the two of us. If you are going to act on something we wrote about your child's education, benefits or care, you should know exactly who we are and what our expertise actually is.
Last reviewed: August 2026
Chris Fry
I do most of the research and writing. That means reading the actual source — a state agency’s own waiver page, the federal regulation, the school district’s own policy — rather than summarising what another website said about it. When I have written something about your rights under IDEA or what a state’s Medicaid waiver covers, I have gone and read the primary document, and the guide links to it so you can check my work.
The provider directory is mine too: verifying listings, removing the ones that turn out to be dead or fabricated, and writing the county pages. That work has taught me more about what families actually cannot find than any amount of reading did.
Becky Fry
Becky shapes what this site is for. She is a life coach as well as an autism parent, and she is the reason the guides acknowledge how something feels before telling you what to do about it. A checklist that ignores that a parent is frightened is a checklist most parents will close.
She also pushes back hardest on anything that reads as clinical detachment or false cheer, which has improved a great deal of what is published here.
What our expertise is — and is not
We are parents, not clinicians. Neither of us is a doctor, a therapist, a lawyer, or an educational psychologist. We do not diagnose, we do not treat, and nothing here is medical or legal advice.
What we do have is the thing the clinical literature does not cover: we have been through diagnosis, early intervention, IEP meetings, therapy waitlists, insurance denials and the benefits system with our own son. We know which forms matter, which phone call actually moves something, and how it feels to be told to wait eight years for a waiver.
Because of that gap, we hold ourselves to a rule: anything that affects your child’s rights, money or care is linked to an official source — a federal agency, a state agency, or the statute itself. If we cannot source it, we do not publish it. And where our own data has fallen short, we have said so publicly rather than quietly patched it. See what we removed and why.
Clinical review
Some of our pages sit closest to clinical territory — how evaluations work and the milestone checker in particular. Those pages have not been reviewed by a clinician, and we would rather say so than let the CDC citations imply otherwise. We are working on changing that.
When a page has been reviewed by a clinician, it will carry their name and credentials at the top. Until it does, assume it has not been.
Corrections
We get things wrong. When we do, we want to know, and we fix it quickly rather than defensively — several of the most useful corrections on this site came from parents and providers who wrote to tell us we had something out of date. Tell us what we got wrong.