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Category Archives: Blog
Navigating College Update
by Elesia Ashkenazy Greetings and salutations ASAN blog readers! One of our favorite projects so far, Navigating College, is coming up on its second year! Thanks to you, and to countless others, it has been well received in the community. Now is a good time to toot the Navigating...
Posted in Blog, Inclusive Education and College
Tagged college
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Career Options
by Meg Evans Young people entering the workforce often have to sort through a lot of career suggestions. Autistics and others with developmental disabilities may be advised to start a small business, on the assumption that it would be easier than finding a conventional job. Rather than commit to...
Autism: From Awareness to Understanding to Acceptance and Appreciation
by Rebecca Hamilton Over the years, we’ve made some progress where Autism Awareness is concerned. Many have seen advertisements and articles and news-clippings, they’ve heard the word, they know autism exists. I think we’ve hit a plateau, however, in that awareness is not enough. Firstly, being aware of autism...
Posted in Blog, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity
Tagged acceptance, Autism Acceptance 2012, disability, neurodiversity
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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, and summer camps are getting underway for school-age children. For parents who have an autistic child, a major consideration in choosing a camp is...
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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 not a burden. You are a human being, and your life can be rich, full, complete, fulfilling, and meaningful on that basis alone. You...
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Tagged acceptance, Autism Acceptance 2012, disability, neurodiversity
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A Poem
by Dora Raymaker When the numbers roll in, I see where I fall: 1 in 1,000 1 in 150 1 in 88 children America has committed to prevent from being born. When the issues come to the table, I observe where I stand: far away waiting to learn what...
Posted in Blog, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity
Tagged acceptance, Autism Acceptance 2012, disability, neurodiversity
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Making Disability Studies Accessible
by Ari Ne’eman Last week, Inside Higher Ed carried an intriguing piece from University of Maryland graduate student and New Inquiry editor Nathan Jurgenson. The article – Making Our Ideas More Accessible – made the case for academics to make their work available to the public through open access publications and...
Posted in Blog, Inclusive Education and College
Tagged accommodations, community living, disability, education, inclusion, representation
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Autism, Being Autistic and Acceptance
by Amy Sequenzia What is our place in the world? Who are we? Those questions should be easy to answer. Yet, they are not. For a long time, and still today, the answer to the “who are we” question was not directed at us. Non-autistic people defined autism and...
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Tagged acceptance, Autism Acceptance 2012, disability, neurodiversity
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We need to listen
by Liz Pellicano When I was a young academic at Oxford University, I was lucky enough to work with several autistic students, helping them to negotiate the complexities of that ancient institution and of college life more generally. Every one of them touched my life – and influenced...
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