When Carey and Boyd Handley’s daughter, Caytlin, was identified as having an intellectual disability at age 2, no one told them about the Medicaid waiver programs that provide long-term services and support for Texans with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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It wasn’t until Caytlin turned 14 and attended a required transition planning meeting that the Katy family first learned about the state’s Local Intellectual and Developmental Disability Authorities, and the Medicaid waiver programs that could help support their daughter throughout her life…