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Category Archives: Self Advocacy and Representation
Want to Bring Autism Acceptance Month to Your Community?
This April, ASAN will be working with activists and community members across the country to help launch Autism Acceptance Month, a celebration of Autistic culture and community. We want you to help us by organizing a local event in your area for Autism Acceptance Month and letting us know...
Posted in Autistic Community and Allies, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, News, Self Advocacy and Representation
Tagged acceptance, allies, autistic community, autistic culture, neurodiversity
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ASAN is Now Accepting Applications for the 2013 Summer Leadership Academy
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is excited to announce the Autism Campus Inclusion project is now seeking applications for its 2013 Summer Leadership Academy. The training will take place in Washington, DC, June 9 to June 15, 2013. All expenses for the training are covered by the Autistic Self...
NDLA Letter to the Vice President’s Task Force to Curb Gun Violence
Dear Vice President Biden: On behalf of the National Disability Leadership Alliance (NDLA) and allied organizations, we write to communicate certain recommendations and concerns from the cross-disability community for consideration in your task force’s efforts to curb gun violence. NDLA is a coalition of 14 leading national disability organizations...
Posted in Changing Perceptions, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, News, Self Advocacy and Representation
Tagged disability, joint letters, representation
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It’s Here! Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking on Amazon!
It’s here! A little less than a year since we started, the Loud Hands Project is proud to unveil our first anthology: Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking, now available on Amazon. This is an exciting time for the Loud Hands Project, and we want to share it with you....
Update on November 29 Autism Hearing
Today, November 29th, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing on autism. ASAN has closely followed the news and information leading up to this hearing, and we have kept our supporters and members informed. Last week, we expressed our concern that the hearing initially excluded...
Posted in News, Research and Data Collection, Self Advocacy and Representation
Tagged representation, research, self advocacy
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Thank You! Congress Got the Message: Nothing About Us, Without Us!
On November 29th, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will be holding a hearing on autism. Invited witnesses include people from government agencies, parent autism advocacy organizations, AND Autistic self-advocacy organizations. We are pleased to report that the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform staff have...
Posted in Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, News, Self Advocacy and Representation
Tagged autistic community, inclusion, representation, self advocacy
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ASAN Statement on Upcoming House Autism Hearing
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network issued the following statement today regarding the upcoming House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on autism: “We’re profoundly concerned by the decision by the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform to convene a hearing on autism next week without the inclusion of...
Posted in Autistic Community and Allies, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, News, Press, Self Advocacy and Representation
Tagged autistic community, inclusion, representation
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Protesting
by Katie Miller Protests exhaust me, but not in the way you might think. Granted, it is a lot of work to prepare. The night before ASAN’s recent protest of Walk Now for Autism Speaks, a handful of us were making posters and researching the data to make sure...
Posted in Autistic Community and Allies, Blog, Self Advocacy and Representation
Tagged Autism Speaks, Autism Walks, protests
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Autistics Speaking Day 2012: Reclaiming Voice
by Ari Ne’eman Holidays are funny things – they come around once a year, and remind us of feelings and ideas that we shouldn’t have ever let ourselves forget. Whether it’s Thanksgiving gratitude or July 4th patriotism, we turn to holidays not because the day itself matters, but because...
Posted in Autistic Community and Allies, Blog, Changing Perceptions, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, Self Advocacy and Representation
Tagged acceptance, autistic community, autistic culture, Autistics Speaking Day, community living, disability, inclusion, neurodiversity, representation, segregation, self advocacy
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Calling People the R word
by Alyssa Trigger Warning: R-slur as an insult, discussion of such (censored except in quotations and in a screen shot.) This is how we begin, sort of: I say sort of because this isn’t really a beginning, it’s a reflection. It’s a reflection of what we as a society...
Posted in Autistic Community and Allies, Blog, Perspectives, Self Advocacy and Representation
Tagged ann coulter, disability, hate speech, the r-word
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