Structure & planning for autistic adults and adolescents; care & coaching for their families.
Coaching practice · Mountain View, CA and remote
Unhurried coaching for autistic adolescents, autistic adults, and their families.
Glideslope is the practice of Jennifer Glace. Based in Mountain View, California. Sessions are remote. Nothing here is a cure, a compliance program, or a promise about outcomes — it is practical help with ordinary weeks.
If you are reading this late at night and cannot take in another website, start with what the first six weeks actually look like. It is seven minutes and it is the only thing you need to read today.
What this is
Plainly stated, before anything else
Coaching here means working on specific, agreed problems: getting out of the house, holding a job, surviving a school year, deciding what to disclose and to whom. We define the problem together and we write down what we are trying.
Autistic people are the experts on their own experience. My job is not to correct how someone is autistic. It is to reduce the cost of the environment they have to live in, and to say clearly when the environment — not the person — is what needs to change.
Sessions are quiet. Cameras optional. No small talk unless you want it. You will always be told the plan for a session before it starts, and you can stop at any point without explaining why.
Programs
Three ways of working
Each one has a fixed shape and a defined end. You are not signing up to something open-ended.
Adolescents, 11 to 18
Every other week · 50 minutes · parents included by agreement
School, sleep, friendships, and the parts of the week that reliably fall apart. The young person sets at least one of the goals, or we do not have goals.
Autistic adults
Every other week or monthly · 60 minutes · written summary after each session
Work, disclosure, burnout recovery, and the arithmetic of running compensating strategies for years. Sessions can be audio only, and can be conducted entirely in writing.
Parents and caregivers
Six sessions · 50 minutes · evenings available
For the meetings, the paperwork, the sibling who is quietly struggling, and the question of how long you can keep doing this. Your child does not need to attend or consent to this work.
Process
How working together goes
01
You write, I reply
One email. You do not need to summarize a history or attach a report. I will reply with two or three questions and a time.
02
A first conversation, at no cost
Thirty minutes, no notes taken, no commitment. If I am not the right person, I will tell you and help you find someone who is.
03
Six weeks, then a decision
We describe an ordinary week, change one thing, and review what happened. Some families stop here, and that is a legitimate outcome.
04
Ongoing, or not
If we continue, the cadence is agreed in writing and can be paused at any time. No minimum term.
Guides
Written notes, free to read
Everything I would say in a first session, written down so you do not have to book anything to get it.
For parents
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9 min read
Eleven sentences that hold a boundary without escalating the room. Copy them, adapt them, read them off your phone.
For autistic adults
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6 min read
Why “he could do it if he wanted to” is almost always the wrong diagnosis, and what to look at instead.