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Joint Letter on Cross-Disability Representation in Designating Medically Underserved Populations

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People with Disabilities Are Medically Underserved: We need to assure adequate numbers of primary care providers are trained to treat the population of people with disabilities; people with disabilities from across the disability community have access to adequate primary care; and funding is available for research and programs to...

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A true story and a little lesson about functioning level

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An essay by Larry Arnold. Functioning levels are a discourse of intellectual impairments not physical ones, created out of older distinctions, wrapped up in Greek words to look respectable, words like "imbecile" "moron" "idiot" -- "low grades" and "high grades" the categories of the institutions used to sort out...

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Comments at April 30, 2010 IACC Meeting

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Those researchers who work in close consultation with, and call on the expertise of, those of us living on the autism spectrum, in areas of development, interpretation, implementation, and evaluation, are the researchers who will be most likely to make advances that will directly impact the lives of autistic...

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Secretary Sebelius Appoints ASAN President Ari Ne’eman to IACC

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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....

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Can’t Be Choosers

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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...

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Improving Health Care

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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 providers need to consider all possible causes for the reason why a person is seeking their services, rather than simply assuming that it must...

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