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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.

New ASAN resource on starting a nonprofit

| JuliaBascom
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is proud to announce the release of a new technical assistance document Starting a Non-Profit is Like Having a Baby: 8 Questions Your Group Should Ask Before Starting a Non-Profit. Many self advocacy organizations want to become formalized non-profits recognized by the state and...

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#StopCombatingMe

| JuliaBascom
Nine years ago, Congress passed the Combating Autism Act (CAA), legislation that focused federal autism research and policy activities on creating a world without autistic people. In 2011, Congress re-authorized this deeply flawed legislation, over the objections of self-advocates and our families. Now, with the CAA set to expire...

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Thank you

| JuliaBascom
Last Saturday, I stood in a park across from the Capitol Building, surrounded by my community, as we read a list of names. I could have sworn time stopped; we read down one poster, and then another, and every time I thought we were done, there were more names....

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Understandable

| MegEvans
by Meg Evans The characters and events in this short story are entirely fictional. Sometimes drawing a picture makes things more understandable. When Kelsey was younger she’d carried big spiral notebooks everywhere with her, sketching obsessively. Then her therapist, Dr. Caldwell, had told her that now she was in...

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We Did It

| JuliaBascom
Hi folks, Two weeks ago, they said it couldn’t be done. They said including disabled workers now being paid less than minimum wage in the executive order President Obama had just announced guaranteeing a $10.10/hour minimum wage for federal contract workers was just not possible. Today, I’m standing in...

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Autistic Self Advocacy Network applauds President Obama’s inclusion of workers with disabilities in executive order raising the minimum wage for federal contractors.

| JuliaBascom
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Autistic Self Advocacy Network applauds President Obama’s inclusion of workers with disabilities in executive order raising the minimum wage for federal contractors. Inclusion of disabled contractors means real pay for thousands of workers with disabilities. Washington, DC — February 12th, 2014 — The Autistic Self Advocacy...

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NDLA Letter on 14(c) and $10.10 Executive Order

| JuliaBascom
Dear President Obama and Secretary Perez: On behalf of the National Disability Leadership Alliance (NDLA), we write to applaud your recent focus on economic opportunity for all Americans. We also wish to strongly urge you to ensure that workers with disabilities now making less than minimum wage under Section...

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Disability Orgs Call on President to Include Workers with Disabilities in Executive Order

| JuliaBascom
This morning, the Collaboration for the Promotion of Self Determination, a coalition of twenty one progressive disability rights groups on whose board the Autistic Self Advocacy Network serves, sent the following letter to the White House and the Department of Labor. CPSD’s members werealso joined by a number of broader...

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A Horrifying Trend: ASAN Statement on the Murders of Randle Barrow & Mickey Liposchok

| JuliaBascom
On Monday, December 23rd, ASAN issued a statement regarding the recent murders of Randle Barrow and Mickey Liposchok. Sunday, December 15th the body of 8-year-old Randle Barrow was found in Alabama, drowned by his mother who later killed herself. Nearly 700 miles away in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Mickey Liposchok,...

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ASAN and Not Dead Yet Testify Against Physician Assisted Suicide in Massachusetts

| JuliaBascom
On December 17th, ASAN member Kate Ryan delivered the following testimony against H. 1998, legislation designed to legalize physician assisted suicide in the State of Massachusetts:   The Autistic Self Advocacy Network, ASAN, is against physician-assisted suicide and specifically, H 1998. We believe that both the practice and the bill...

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