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Category Archives: Disability Rights and Neurodiversity
Awareness Is Not Enough
by Kathryn Bjornstad-Kelly I knew autism awareness before I knew I was Autistic. I didn’t know what autism was, but I heard the word all the time on TV. I saw commercials listing facts about how many people were diagnosed each year. I dumped my change into buckets for...
Posted in Blog, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity
Tagged acceptance, Autism Acceptance 2012, disability, neurodiversity
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Celebrate Autism Acceptance Month 2012!
Greetings and Happy April 2012! The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is celebrating Autism Acceptance Month by posting essays in the blog section of our website throughout the month of April. It’s time to move beyond awareness! The essays — authored by Autistic self advocates, parents, and allies — touch...
Posted in Autistic Community and Allies, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity
Tagged acceptance, Autism Acceptance 2012, autistic community, disability, neurodiversity
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From the Pro-Neurodiversity Trenches
by Paula C. Durbin-Westby Early intervention and treatment is important! If caught early enough, negative attitudes toward autism and other disabilities can be minimized and even reversed! Read more below to see what happens in our disability-rights oriented home. These comments were taken down by the mom of...
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Tagged acceptance, Autism Acceptance 2012, disability, neurodiversity
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The Loud Hands Project
The Loud Hands Project, a publishing effort by the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, is working towards the creation of our first and foundational anthology and accompanying website. "Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking" features essays, long and short, by Autistic authors
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Posted in Autistic Community and Allies, Changing Perceptions, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, Self Advocacy and Representation
Tagged acceptance, autistic community, autistic culture, self advocacy
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Neurodiversity Symposium at Syracuse University
ASAN is currently gathering interest for a new chapter at Syracuse University, where a regional symposium on neurodiversity and autistic self-advocacy will take place August 5, 2011....
Posted in Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, Events
Tagged autistic culture, neurodiversity, self advocacy
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True Dawn
An essay by Stephanie Allen Crist. Today is Memorial Day in the United States. It’s a time to look back, and remember those who have sacrificed to make this country a place to be free. Instead, I look ahead and ask myself if it is freedom that I see....
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Tagged acceptance, disability
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When Is a Disability Not a Disability? Autism Speaks Has the Answer
An article by Paula C. Durbin-Westby. When a person has a disability that person is still a person. That person with a disability has a body, and a mind. That person with a disability has needs, concerns, desires, a personal history, a context of family, friends, and community relations....
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Tagged Autism Speaks, disability
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BBC World Service Interview
ASAN President Ari Ne’eman was interviewed on Weekend World Today on BBC World Service. Listen to the interview here....
Posted in ASAN in the News, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity
Tagged disability
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CNN Newsroom Interview
ASAN President Ari Ne’eman appeared as a guest on CNN Newsroom to discuss his appointment to the National Council on Disability. Read the transcript by clicking here....
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Tagged disability
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