The Autistic Self Advocacy Network applauds HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ appointment of ASAN President Ari Ne’eman to the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), a Federal advisory committee that coordinates all efforts within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) concerning autism.
When you try to get SSI, the process is all about telling them how horrible you are at doing things; how you can’t cook for yourself except for heating things up in the microwave; how it takes you forever to get your place clean; how you didn’t learn to shower until you were twenty; how you can’t use a bus or drive a car or order at a restaurant. Can’t, can’t, can’t. You’re a bundle of deficiency. You may or may not be accepted, and it routinely takes years.
An essay by Kate Goldfield. I hadn’t thought much about it for those months; it was kind of at the back of my mind. I didn’t see much reason to tell people about my diagnosis; it was just another part of me. Well, that all changed one day at my college library.
ASAN’s Paula C. Durbin-Westby was quoted in a HealthLeaders article on providing better health care services to the Autistic population by means of care coordination programs. Medical…
