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Category Archives: Press
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ASAN issues press releases to inform the public of our policy positions and actions. Other categories of articles, along with past entries sorted by date and tag, can be accessed via the sitemap.
ASAN Celebrates Dismissal of All Charges Against Kayleb Moon Robinson
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is pleased that the Commonwealth of Virginia has dismissed all charges against Autistic middle school student Kayleb Moon-Robinson. Last year, when he was in sixth grade, Kayleb was wrongfully arrested and faced with criminal charges for walking into the school hallway and struggling when...
Posted in Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, Inclusive Education and College, News, Press
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Tagged education, growing up, inclusion, Kayleb Moon-Robinson, police misconduct, school abuse, school to prison pipeline, self advocacy
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ASAN Files ADA Complaint on Communication Access in Schools
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA– As part of its new communication rights initiative, Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) has filed a groundbreaking complaint with the Department of Justice, seeking communication supports for five non-speaking autistic students in Arlington, Virginia. The Arlington Public Schools system (APS) has repeatedly denied these students’ requests to...
Posted in Community Services and Supports, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, Inclusive Education and College, News, Press, Self Advocacy and Representation
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Tagged aac, accommodations, communication rights, education, schools, segregation, self advocacy, supports
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ASAN Joins Letter Opposing Harmful Mental Health Bill
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network has joined a letter led by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights opposing legislation that would undermine protection and advocacy organizations for people with psychosocial disabilities, erode privacy protections, and increase institutionalization and coercive interventions. Although our mental health services system is...
Posted in Community Services and Supports, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, News, Policy, Press, Self Advocacy and Representation
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Tagged disability, H.R. 2646, health care, joint letters, legislation, Mental Health, policy, self advocacy
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ASAN Joint Statement on the Death of Kayden Clarke
We, the undersigned disability and LGBT rights organizations, strongly condemn the police shooting of Kayden Clarke, an Autistic transgender man, in his home on February 4 in Mesa, Arizona. Clarke, who identified as having Asperger’s Syndrome – a diagnosis on the autism spectrum – was killed by police who...
Posted in Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, News, Press, Therapies and Health Care
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Tagged acceptance, disability, lgbt, Mental Health, murder, stigma
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ASAN, Disability Rights Ohio, and National Federation of the Blind Win Landmark Department of Labor Decision Against Sheltered Workshop
In a groundbreaking opinion issued yesterday, the U.S. Department of Labor found that a sheltered workshop in Ohio had violated federal minimum wage laws by underpaying three of its workers with disabilities, including one autistic man. The opinion followed a petition that Autistic Self Advocacy Network filed along with...
Posted in ASAN in the News, Employment, News, Policy, Press
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Tagged disability, employment discrimination, segregation, subminimum wage
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ASAN Statement on Umpqua Community College Shooting
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Due to media reports on the Umpqua Community College shooting, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network today issued the following statement: “We join the nation in mourning the tragic loss of nine lives in the recent shooting at Umpqua Community College on October 1st, 2015. Recent media reports indicate that the shooter may...
ASAN Statement on GOP Primary Debate Comments on Autism and Vaccination
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Despite a wealth of scientific evidence debunking any link between autism and vaccinations, tonight’s Republican primary debate featured prominent commentary from a leading candidate repeating inaccurate information suggesting a link. The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is disappointed that long after the science has spoken, politicians and pundits continue to...
Posted in Blog, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, Press, Research and Data Collection, Self Advocacy and Representation
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Tagged ignorance, research
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ASAN Testimony on Assisted Suicide
I write as Director of Public Policy of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), and a member of the Board of Not Dead Yet, to oppose the Death with Dignity Act. Physician-assisted suicide legislation endangers people with disabilities, including disabilities resultIng from illness. Supporters frequently focus on the “indignity” of needing help...
Testimony to the 21st Century Policing Task Force
The following testimony was given to the White House Task Force on 21st Century Policing on February 4th, 2015 by ASAN President Ari Ne’eman Members of the Task Force, Thank you for inviting us to provide feedback to you today. On behalf of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, the...
Posted in Autistic Community and Allies, Press
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ASAN Applauds Congressional Letter Urging Self-Advocate Inclusion
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Autistic Self Advocacy Network applauds letter from Congressional champions urging increased representation of autistic adults in Autism CARES Act funded programs. WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Autistic Self Advocacy Network applauded five leading congressional champions for autism services this morning for authoring a letter sent yesterday to the Department...
Posted in Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, News, Press, Self Advocacy and Representation
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Tagged disability, inclusion, representation, self advocacy
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