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ASAN Condemns Presidential Appointment of Anti-Vaccine Activist Peter Bell

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The Autistic Self Advocacy Network has expressed concern and disappointment over anti-vaccine activist Peter H. Bell's appointment to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities, in contrast to the forward motion the Obama administration has shown in the areas of autism and disability as a whole....

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When Is a Disability Not a Disability? Autism Speaks Has the Answer

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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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Joint Letter on Cross-Disability Representation in Designating Medically Underserved Populations

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People with Disabilities Are Medically Underserved: We need to assure adequate numbers of primary care providers are trained to treat the population of people with disabilities; people with disabilities from across the disability community have access to adequate primary care; and funding is available for research and programs to...

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