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Category Archives: Changing Perceptions
ASAN Statement on New Jersey Assisted Suicide Bill Hearing
Despite leading disability rights organizations’ long history of opposition to legalization of assisted suicide, the New Jersey Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee held a hearing yesterday on the state’s proposed assisted suicide bill without inviting any representatives of the disability community as witnesses. People with disabilities,...
Posted in Changing Perceptions, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, News, Policy, Self Advocacy and Representation
Tagged disability, policy, representation, self advocacy, stigma
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ASAN Applauds Build-a-Bear Ending Support for Autism Speaks
ASAN applauds Build-A-Bear Workshop’s decision to end their partnership with Autism Speaks. For years, self-advocates and families have urged corporate donors to reconsider their funding to Autism Speaks, pointing out the organization’s lack of autistic leadership, offensive advertising and other unethical business practices. In making this decision, Build-A-Bear has demonstrated...
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Disability Community Joint Letter on Combating Autism Act Re-authorization
Dear Senator Menendez, Rep. Smith and Rep. Doyle, We, the undersigned organizations committed to advancing equality of opportunity for people with disabilities, write with regard to the upcoming re-authorization of the Combating Autism Act (CAA). As you consider re-authorizing CAA, we urge you to incorporate the need for substantive...
Posted in Changing Perceptions, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, Policy, Research and Data Collection, Self Advocacy and Representation
Tagged CAA, Combating Autism Act
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2014 Joint Letter to the Sponsors of Autism Speaks
To the Sponsors, Donors, and Supporters of Autism Speaks: We, the undersigned organizations representing the disability community, are writing to urge you to end your support for Autism Speaks. We profoundly appreciate your interest in supporting the autism and broader disability communities. Our work is about empowering and supporting...
Posted in Action, Autistic Community and Allies, Changing Perceptions
Tagged Autism Speaks
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ASAN condemns proposal to cut funding for effective mental health advocacy and interventions, expand forced treatment programs
ASAN strongly opposes recently proposed legislation, sponsored by House Representative Tim Murphy (R-PA), which would cut funding for crucial mental health services and advocacy programs while expanding coercive intervention programs. The proposed act reinforces stigmatizing perceptions that people with mental illness are at increased risk for violence and would...
Posted in Changing Perceptions, Community Services and Supports, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, Therapies and Health Care
Tagged psychiatric disabilities, Rep. Murphy
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Autism Acceptance, Flowering
by Meg Evans After a long chilly winter in the northern United States, springtime finally made its appearance, as the weather turned much warmer this week. Flowers are opening, birds are chirping, and a pleasant breeze is blowing in through the open windows. This past winter’s snow and howling...
Posted in Autistic Community and Allies, Blog, Changing Perceptions, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity
Tagged acceptance, autistic community, ignorance, inclusion, neurodiversity
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Announcing the Launch of Autism Acceptance Month Website
We are excited to announce the launch of the new Autism Acceptance Month website for this April, as part of a history of campaigns by autistic people and our allies to shift the month’s focus from autism awareness to autism acceptance. The tagline for our Autism Acceptance Month website...
Posted in Autistic Community and Allies, Changing Perceptions, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, News
Tagged acceptance, autistic community, autistic culture, ignorance, neurodiversity
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ASAN Thanks a Visionary Leader for Four Years of Trailblazing
On Wednesday, January 9th, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis submitted her resignation to President Obama. She was initially confirmed as Secretary of Labor in February of 2009. According to NPR, Solis said of her resignation, “Growing up in a large Mexican-American family in La Puente, California, I never imagined...
Posted in Changing Perceptions, News
Tagged accommodations, allies, disability, diversity hiring
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