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Category Archives: Disability Rights and Neurodiversity
The neurodiversity movement represents the disability rights perspective within the Autistic community. Other category archives, along with past entries sorted by date and tag, can be accessed via the sitemap.
Statement on CDC Autism Monitoring Efforts
On April 22nd, 2015, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network issued the following statement regarding the CDC’s recent announcement as to the expansion of the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network (ADDM). The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is concerned that the recently announced expansion of data collection and surveillance by...
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ASAN Statement on #JusticeForKayleb
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network strongly condemns the conviction of Kayleb Moon-Robinson, a Black and autistic sixth-grader, for disorderly conduct and felony assault after kicking over a trash can at school and struggling to get away from a School Resource Officer. This was a minor incident which should have...
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Tagged Kayleb Moon-Robinson, police misconduct, school to prison pipeline
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ASAN Joined by Coalition Supporting MD Anti-Organ Transplant Discrimination Bill
You can download the coalition’s testimony as a PDF here. SB 792 Public Health – Nondiscrimination in Access to Anatomical Gifts and Organ Transplantation Senate Finance Committee March 18, 2015 Position: SUPPORT The Arc Maryland, Maryland Association of Community Services (MACS), Maryland DD Council, Maryland Disability Law Center (MDLC),...
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On Our Backs, We Will Carry Them
Reflections on the 2015 Disability Day of Mourning From ASAN President Ari Ne’eman Memory is an important part of how we define our communities. When we think about the history of the disability rights movement, there are so many moments at which we stop and think to ourselves, “But...
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Tagged day of mourning, filicide
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Joint Disability Letter in Support of NJ Transition Plan
Dear Deputy Commissioner Arye, Deputy Commissioner Apgar and Assistant Commissioner Shea: We write on behalf of a broad array of national and New Jersey organizations representing people with disabilities and civil liberties to express support for the State of New Jersey’s proposed statewide home and community-based settings transition plan....
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network Files Amicus Brief Challenging Discriminatory Denial of Health Care
On Monday January 26, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Not Dead Yet, and 13 other disability rights organizations filed a second amicus brief in a case defending the rights of people with disabilities to basic medical care. Disability Rights Wisconsin filed the initial lawsuit, Disability Rights Wisconsin v. University of...
Posted in Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, Policy, Therapies and Health Care
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Tagged disability, disability rights wisconsin, discrimination, health care, murder
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ASAN Praises the Pardon of Neli Latson
In response to today’s conditional pardon of Neli Latson by Virginia Governor Terry Mcauliffe, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network issued the following statement: We applaud Governor Mcauliffe for taking this important step to remove Neli Latson from an unjust and inappropriate prison sentence. Neli’s imprisonment, which included time spent...
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Tagged Neli Latson
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ASAN Condemns Maryland for Dropping Charges in Case of Autistic Men in Basement
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The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is outraged that the Maryland prosecutor’s office has dropped all charges against a couple that imprisoned their autistic sons in a filthy basement with no furniture or electricity. When the prosecutor’s office declined to pursue charges, they joined a pattern of treating violence against...
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ASAN Praises Congressional Passage of the ABLE Act
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network praised congressional passage of the ABLE Act today, issuing the following statement: The recent passage of the ABLE Act and its forthcoming signature by the President will represent a significant step forward to building a meaningful pathway into the middle class for people...
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Tagged ABLE
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ASAN Statement on New Jersey Assisted Suicide Bill Hearing
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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
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Tagged disability, policy, representation, self advocacy, stigma
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