ASAN Public Comment on Defining Home and Community Based Services
We urge CMS to consider the following recommendations to bring the proposed rule in compliance with the spirit, purpose and intent of the HCBS program.
June 28, 2012
June 2012
June 24, 2012
Autistic Self Advocates and Allies Campaign for Electric Shock Ban
by Shain Neumeier Wednesday, June 20, Autistic self-advocates Kevin Barrett and Shain Neumeier went to the Massachusetts State House with fellow aversives opponents Cheryl…
June 22, 2012
ASAN Public Comment on DSM-5 ASD Criteria
Today is the last day to provide public comment to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) regarding the definition of ASD within the DSM-5, the manual…
June 15, 2012
June 15, 2012
Inclusion and Social Change
by Meg Evans It’s June again—that time of year when we wake early to birdsong and a bright sunrise, our days are long and pleasant,…
June 8, 2012
ASAN Policy Brief: How Will DSM-5 Impact Services?
Over the course of the last several months, a lot of questions have been raised about how upcoming changes to the DSM-5 definition of the…
June 6, 2012
June 6, 2012
Joint Letter to the Massachusetts Conference Committee
We are writing as concerned members of the disability community to urge you to give your support to Amendment #548, which bans the use of electric shock aversive “therapy,” as contained in the Senate FY 13 Budget We ask that this be included in the FY 13 Budget Conference Committee Report.
June 6, 2012
You are not a burden.
by Lydia Brown, at Autistic Hoya To the person who found my blog by searching Google for “feel like i’m a burden aspergers:” You are…
June 1, 2012