No One Told Me This: The Complete Guide + Companion Toolkit

Reading about what to do is one thing. Actually having the letter, the checklist, the worksheet already written and ready to use is another.

No One Told Me This: The Complete Guide + Companion Toolkit gives you both.

You get the full book — 17 chapters, diagnosis through a lifetime of adulthood, everything I learned the hard way so you don't have to. And alongside it, you get the Companion Toolkit: every template, checklist, and fill-in worksheet mentioned in the book, built and ready to use, matched chapter by chapter so you always know exactly which tool goes with which stage of the journey.

What's actually in the Toolkit:

• Word-for-word letters — the evaluation request, the IEE request, the letter that gets a transition teacher's supervisor to finally respond
• The Certificate vs. Diploma decision worksheet, so that conversation with the IEP team happens with real information in hand, not on the spot
• A Master Binder setup guide and Contact Log, so you're never trying to remember who said what, or when
• The SSI/ABLE/Special Needs Trust decision worksheet, and a full SSI overpayment appeal worksheet, for exactly the kind of agency error that's cost real families real money
• A Letter of Intent template, so the people who care for your child after you can't are working from a real picture of who they are — not a blank page
• The full DDA service catalog, the Transitioning Youth deadline tracker, and dozens more, covering every major system this book walks you through

This isn't a workbook you fill out once and set aside. It's a reference you'll come back to for years — every time a new stage of the journey starts, the tool that stage needs is already built and waiting for you.

The book tells you what to do. The Toolkit hands you what you need to actually do it.