I teach the autism and IDD world how to actually use AI.
Hands-on training for parents, direct support professionals, and provider agencies. Built by a neurodivergent product designer who has spent 30 years shipping software, and the last several teaching this to the people who need it most.
Virtual or on-site. Illinois-based, delivered nationally.
Priced by the size of your team
Every session is live, specific to your people's actual work, and built around the question everyone asks first: where does the data go?
Monthly Cohort: AI for IDD Teams
A live half-day on Zoom, once a month. Send one person or ten. The same curriculum agencies pay thousands for, in a shared room with peers from other providers.
- HIPAA-aware AI use, documentation, person-centered planning
- Live demos on real scenarios, including where AI gets it wrong
- Prompt library, policy template, and certificate of attendance
Team Essentials
Two hours, virtual, just your team. For ABA clinics, small providers, and nonprofit staff.
- Your workflows, your tools, your data rules
- Policy template included
Agency Staff Training
Half or full day, virtual or on-site, for DSPs, QIDPs, supervisors, and leadership. Drops into onboarding or annual training.
- Documentation drafted by AI, signed by humans
- Includes an agency AI use policy
Train-the-Trainer License
Your trainers deliver my curriculum, updated quarterly as the tools change. For state DD councils, provider networks, and multi-site agencies.
- Curriculum, slides, exercises, trainer certification
- Co-branded for your organization
Parent & Community Session
60–90 minutes for parent groups, Arcs, Autism Society chapters, PTIs, and libraries.
- IEPs, school emails, routines, visual schedules
- Prompt library everyone can use that night
Run a nonprofit or association? Host a cohort for your members: you set the seat price and keep the gate, I bring the training. Let's talk →
The rules I don't break
These came from the people I train: parents, DSPs, BCBAs, and autistic adults. They're the difference between a workshop that changes Monday morning and one that gets forgotten by Friday.
The data stays private.
Every exercise has a de-identification or BAA answer. No one pastes a client's name into a free chatbot in my room.
Humans sign the plan.
AI drafts. The practitioner reviews, edits, and owns it. I teach a review workflow, not a shortcut.
Nothing about us without us.
I'm neurodivergent. Autistic adults shaped this curriculum. AI is taught as an accommodation, never as a fix for who someone is.
Live, not slides.
I demo the tools on your real scenarios, including the moments they hallucinate or stereotype, so your team knows what to watch for.
Specific to your role.
A DSP, a QIDP, a parent, and a special-ed teacher need different things. Nobody sits through a generic "AI 101."
Beyond one chatbot.
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, voice tools, and what's coming next. The skill is the thinking, not the brand.
Keynotes & conference sessions
For provider associations, state DD councils, autism and special-education conferences, and agency leadership retreats. Virtual or in person.
- AI in Human HandsWhat direct support work looks like when AI handles the paperwork and people handle the people.
- The Agency AI PlaybookPolicy, privacy, and the first five workflows every IDD provider should automate, in that order.
- AI for IndependenceHow autistic adults are already using AI as a translator, planner, and coach, and what that means for the people who support them.
- From IEP Panic to IEP PrepA parent-facing session on using AI to understand, question, and advocate.
Josh Rosenfeld trains parents, direct support professionals, and provider agencies to use AI safely and well. A neurodivergent product designer with 30 years shipping software for companies from Apple to Zillow, he has trained more than 1,500 caregivers and professionals nationwide, serves as technology partner to Find Love Safely, InControl, and CCHI, and is founder of AlwaysHere, an AI voice companion for neurodivergent adults and people with IDD.
AlwaysHere
An AI voice companion for neurodivergent adults and people with IDD. Always available, patient, and built to support independence rather than replace the people in someone's life.
Everything I teach comes from building this: the privacy decisions, the guardrails, the lessons about what AI should and shouldn't do for the people it serves. AlwaysHere is why I'm not a vendor demo.
- Voice-firstTalks, listens, remembers. No screens required.
- Built for IDDRoutines, reminders, reassurance, and a steady presence at 2 a.m.
- Family & agency awareCaregivers and providers stay in the loop without surveillance.
- Founder & CEOJosh Rosenfeld, AlwaysHere LLC.
Why me
I've spent 30 years designing and building software, including leading the design system for ShowingTime at Zillow and shipping more than twenty apps. For the last several years I've pointed all of that at one problem: the autism and IDD world is being handed powerful AI tools with zero training and a lot of risk.
I'm neurodivergent. I build technology for three autism and disability organizations, I founded AlwaysHere to give neurodivergent adults a voice companion that's actually safe, and I teach because the people doing this work deserve better than a vendor demo.
If you run an agency, a council, a chapter, or a classroom and you want your people to use AI well, we should talk.