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Category Archives: Disability Rights and Neurodiversity
Wired.com Interview
ASAN President Ari Ne’eman gave an exclusive interview to Wired.com editor Steve Silberman about the shift in the national dialogue on autism toward issues of civil rights, services, and support....
Posted in ASAN in the News, Autistic Community and Allies, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, Self Advocacy and Representation
Tagged autistic community, neurodiversity, representation, self advocacy
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ASAN President Ari Ne’eman Confirmed to National Council on Disability
NCD Appointment Confirmed: The U.S. Senate has voted unanimously to confirm President Obama's appointment of ASAN President Ari Ne'eman as a member of the National Council on Disability....
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Stirring Up Action: The Winds of Disability
An essay by Elesia Ashkenazy. Media plays a colossal role in shaping public perception. Unfortunately, disability in the media is often centered around fear and pity, or treated with benevolence and do-goodery. Well-intentioned or not, such messages are adverse, ruinous, and useless in raising and shaping effective and positive...
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Justice for All Action Network
White House Disability Policy Meeting: The steering committee of the Justice for All Action Network (JFAAN), a cross-disability coalition, met for an hour with two senior White House officials to discuss some of our common policy priorities....
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White House Celebration of Disability Rights
Americans with Disabilities Act Anniversary Celebration: We've posted photos of this White House event, attended by ASAN President Ari Ne'eman, at which President Barack Obama signed a proclamation commemorating the ADA and the rights of people with disabilities....
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NFB Disability Law Symposium Keynote from ASAN President Ari Ne’eman
Where do rights come from? We go out to the world and we tell them in so many ways that it is time for our rights to be realized. We talk about inclusion, we talk about integration, we talk about access, but when we are asked why, our answers...
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“The A Word” from ASAN Australia
The decision to use the word Autistic is a deliberate and political one - whilst it can be acknowledged that person first language has had an impact upon the way people who experience disability are viewed it has also performed the role (in people’s minds) of extracting that which...
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Keynote Address on Disability Law
On Friday, April 17th, 2009 ASAN President Ari Ne’eman delivered the keynote address at the National Federation of the Blind’s Disability Law Symposium. You can listen to his speech here....
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Disability Studies Article
ASAN President Ari Ne’eman and Columbia University Professor Alicia A. Broderick co-authored “Autism as metaphor: narrative and counter-narrative,” which was published in a special issue of The International Journal of Inclusive Education (Volume 12, Issue 5/6) devoted to Disability Studies in Education....
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Public Service Announcement Filmed
The filming of a national public service announcement about autism jointly produced by the Dan Marino Foundation and the Autistic Self Advocacy Network was reported on WTVF-TV in Nashville, Tennessee. The PSA, entitled “No Myths,” can be seen along with other videos on our YouTube page....
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