The hard parts of disability support, explained clearly.

A reading room, not a maze

Disability support in the United States is spread across dozens of programs, agencies and acronyms. Medicaid, Social Security, waivers, service plans, the ADA: each has its own language, and most of it was written for administrators rather than for the families who have to live inside it. That gap is where good information goes to die, and it is exactly the gap this site was built to close.

adap.net is an independent reading room. Every guide starts with a short plain-language summary you can read in under a minute, then goes deeper only if you want it to. Key terms carry a quiet definition in the margin, so you are never stopped cold by a word like waiver or eligibility redetermination. Nothing here is written to sell you anything, because there is nothing for sale.

The guides cover the questions people actually search for at 2 a.m.: how to qualify for Medicaid, what an individualized service plan really is, whether you can go back to work without losing benefits, and where your rights come from. We explain the general rules clearly and then send you to the official source for the details that change, because being trustworthy matters more than being the last word.

None of this is legal advice, and adap.net is not a government agency or a law firm. Think of it as the friend who has already read the handbook: someone who can tell you what the words mean and where to go next, so the real conversation with an agency or an advocate starts from a much stronger place.