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ASAN Unveils Toolkit for Advocates on Health Care and the Transition to Adulthood

| Ianthe Dempsey
ASAN has prepared a comprehensive toolkit to empower people with disabilities, their families, and other disability advocates to help youth with disabilities manage their own health care as they transition to adulthood. As ASAN found in our 2013 report, youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities face a variety of barriers to...

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Our Lives, Our Health Care: Self Advocates Speaking Out

| JuliaBascom
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network and Office of Developmental Primary Care are pleased to release, “Our Lives, Our Health Care: Self Advocates Speaking Out About Our Experiences with the Medical System.”...

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The Case for Designating People with I/DD as MUP

| JuliaBascom
There are millions of Americans with disabilities lacking adequate health care because of a lack of primary care providers who are properly trained to treat them. In 2000, Healthy People 2020 cautioned that “as a potentially underserved group, people with disabilities would be expected to experience disadvantages in health...

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Welcome To The Autistic Community! (Adult)

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Welcome To The Autistic Community! (Adolescent)

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Welcome To The Autistic Community!

| JuliaBascom
Welcome To The Autistic Community This handbook, written in plain language, welcomes newly-diagnosed autistic people and autistic people who have just learned of their diagnosis to the Autistic community.  It addresses the most common questions that people may have about their diagnosis, emphasizes that they are not alone, and...

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Policy Brief on Healthcare Transition

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Policy Brief on the Affordable Care Act

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Policy Brief on Organ Transplant Discrimination

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It’s Here! Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking on Amazon!

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It’s here! A little less than a year since we started, the Loud Hands Project is proud to unveil our first anthology: Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking, now available on Amazon. This is an exciting time for the Loud Hands Project, and we want to share it with you....

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