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Category Archives: News
Selected newsworthy articles about ASAN’s actions and statements on matters of public importance can be found here. Other categories of articles, along with past entries sorted by date and tag, can be accessed via the sitemap.
Don’t let Judge Kavanaugh rewind our rights – call your Senators this week!
As people with disabilities, we know that every right we have is the result of a hard-won fight. Now, Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court puts everything we have fought for at risk. We can’t let him turn back the clock on disability rights – call your...
Posted in Action, News
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Tagged action, action alert, action alerts
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ASAN Opposes Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network opposes the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. As a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Kavanaugh has opposed the rights of people with disabilities to make our own choices. He has said that he might want to strike...
Posted in News, Statement
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Tagged brett kavanaugh, judge kavanaugh, kavanaugh, nomination, statement, supreme court
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Register for ASAN’s 2018 Gala!
Join us for a special celebration and fundraising event on Thursday, November 15. Dinner and dessert will be served and a reception will precede dinner. Proceeds will support our advocacy work and programs for the coming year, and allow us to continue working to empower disabled people across the...
ASAN Opposes Citizenship Questions For 2020 Census
This document is also available as a PDF here. August 7, 2018 Jennifer Jessup Departmental Paperwork Clearance Officer Department of Commerce Room 6616 14th and Constitution Avenue NW Washington, DC 20230 Re: Docket ID: USBC–2018–0005, Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; 2020 Census Dear Ms. Jessup, The Autistic Self Advocacy Network...
Posted in Community Services and Supports, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, News, Policy, Therapies and Health Care
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Tagged census, immigration
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ASAN Letter to ASHA On The Right To Communicate
This letter is available as a PDF here. Dr. Elise Davis-McFarland, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, President, Past Chair, Committee on Committees Meher Banajee, Chair, ASHA Ad Hoc Committee on FC and RPM Marie Ireland, Vice President for Speech-Language Pathology Practice, Board Liaison Diane Paul, ASHA Director, Clinical Issues in Speech-Language Pathology,...
ASAN Condemns Family Separation
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network forcefully condemns the Trump Administration’s unconscionable policy of separating immigrant families at the border, and the subsequent incarceration and warehousing of infants and children. This policy is not mandated by law, but is a deliberate act of cruelty the Administration has chosen to inflict...
Posted in Family Law and Relationships, News, Policy, Statement
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Tagged DREAM Act, family separation, immigration, keep families together act, policy, statement, White House
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Final Report: Supported Decision-Making And Transition To The Community
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network held an Invitational Summit on Supported Decision-Making and the Transition to the Community on October 18th and October 19th, 2016. From the summit and a series of follow-up interviews, ASAN derived recommendations for how self-advocates, lawyers, parents, government officials, and other stakeholders can use supported...
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Tagged sdm, summit, supported decision-making, white paper, whitepaper
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ASAN Statement on 2018 CDC Prevalence Data
Today, the Centers for Disease Control released the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network report, which estimates the prevalence of autism in certain areas. The results indicate that better recognition of autism, and an encouraging reduction of racial and gender disparities in diagnosis, have caused rates of diagnosis...
Posted in News, Research and Data Collection, Statement
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Tagged autism, autism prevalence, CDC, centers for disease control, national health interview survey, nhis, prevalence, research, statement
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ASAN Letter to FDA on Banning Electric Shock Devices
You can download this letter as a PDF here. Alex M. Azar II Secretary U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Scott Gottlieb Commissioner Food and Drug Administration John Michael Mulvaney Director Office of Management and Budget Sent via electronic mail Re: FDA proposed rule banning electrical stimulation devices...
Posted in News, Policy, Preventing Abuse and Bullying, Therapies and Health Care
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Tagged #stoptheshock, electric shock devices, electrical stimulation devices, ESD, FDA, letter, omb, regulations, rule, rules
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ASAN Comments on Proposed Delay of Significant Disproportionality Rule
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