Resource Library

ASAN has prepared resources related to COVID-19 in different formats. You can access them below:

• COVID-19 Case Tracker
• Plain Language Resources

ASAN delves into significant social issues by way of reports and policy briefs created to benefit the Autistic and disability communities. These documents can be accessed at no cost through the links below.

• Beyond Coercion and Institutionalization: People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and the Need for Improved Behavior Support Services
• Memorandum: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and Its Implications for Reproductive, Civil, and Disability Rights
• Access, Autonomy, and Dignity: A Series on Reproductive Rights and Disability Justice
• For Whose Benefit? Evidence, Ethics, and Effectiveness of Autism Interventions
• Benchmarks to Inclusion: Creating Core Principles to Facilitate Autistic Student Success in Higher Education
• “The Best Outcome We’ve Had”: Key Themes From A Self-Advocate Summit On Community Living
• Make Real Change On Gun Violence: Stop Scapegoating People With Mental Health Disabilities
• ASAN’s Invitational Summit on Supported Decision Making and the Transition into the Community: Summary, Conclusions, Recommendations
• First-Hand Perspectives on Behavioral Interventions for Autistic People and People with other Developmental Disabilities
• The Affordable Care Act and the I/DD Community: An Overview of the Law and Advocacy Priorities Going Forward
• The Case for Designating People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities as a Medically Underserved Population
• Policy Analysis for the revised Autism Criteria in the DSM-5.
• Keeping the Promise: Self Advocates Defining the Meaning of Community Living
• Organ Transplantation and People with I/DD: A Review of Research, Policy and Next Steps
• The Transition to Adulthood for Youth with I/DD: A Review of Research, Policy and Next Steps

• One Idea Per Line: A Guide to Making Easy Read Resources
• Toolkit for Advocates on Ending Discrimination in Organ Transplantation
• Toolkit for Advocates on Health Care and the Transition to Adulthood
• Toolkit on Improving Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS)
• ASAN Resources on Coverage for Autism-Related Services
• Autism and Safety Toolkit

Easy Read/Plain Language

• Beyond Coercion and Institutionalization: People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and the Need for Improved Behavior Support Services
• What is Structural Racism?
• HCBS Settings Rule Resources
• Our Rights Under Threat: What Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Means for People with Disabilities
• Autism Research and the IACC: Your voice matters! 
• Our Bodies, Our Rights: What’s Going On at the Supreme Court?
• Proud and Supported Series
• Foundations for Inclusive Advocacy
• Crisis in our Communities: Racial Disparities in Community Living
• “Who’s in Control?”: Control over community services for people with disabilities
• For Whose Benefit? Evidence, Ethics, and Effectiveness of Autism Interventions
• A Self Advocate’s Guide to Managed Long-Term Services and Supports
• Institutions: The Old, The New, and What We Should Do
• A Self-Advocate’s Guide to the Americans with Disabilities Act
• What is Police Violence?: A plain language booklet about anti-Black racism, police violence, and what you can do to stop it
• Your Vote Counts: A Self-Advocate’s Guide to Voting in the U.S.
• Follow the Money: The U.S. Budget and You
• Community Living Summit Resources
• Real Work For Real Pay: A Self-Advocate’s Guide to Employment Policy
• A Self-Advocate’s Guide to Medicaid
• Civic Engagement Toolbox for Self-Advocates
• Affordable Care Act Toolkit for Self-Advocates
• The Right to Make Choices: International Laws and Decision-Making by People with Disabilities

See more details about all accessibility resources at our main Accessibility Resources page here.

• One Idea Per Line: A Guide to Making Easy Read Resources
• Inclusive Meetings: The Autistic Self Advocacy Network’s Community Living Summit
• Planning Accessible and Inclusive Organizing Trainings: Strategies for Decreasing Barriers to Participation for People with I/DD
• Color Communication Badges
• Holding Inclusive Events: A Guide to Accessible Event Planning
• Increasing Neurodiversity in Disability and Social Justice Advocacy Groups
• Autistic Access Needs: Notes on Accessibility

This toolkit is intended to provide advocates and allies with concrete tools and resources to use in their own communities, including in response to local incidents. The toolkit includes information about how to understand and respond to filicide, frequently asked questions about filicide, and a guidebook for Day of Mourning vigil site coordinators.

• Pacific Alliance on Disability Self-Advocacy (PADSA) Resources
• Welcome to the Autistic Community
• Accessing Home and Community-Based Services: A Guide for Self Advocates
• The Right to Make Choices: International Laws and Decision-Making by People with Disabilities (Easy Read and Families versions)
• Getting and Advocating for Community-Based Housing
• Voting Resources
• AutismAndHealth.org: Primary Care Resources for Adults on the Autism Spectrum and their Primary Care Providers
• SARTAC: Self Advocacy Resource and Technical Assistance Center
• Everybody Communicates: Toolkit for Accessing Communication Assessments, Funding and Accommodations

• Real Talk webinar slides PowerPoint
• Real Talk webinar slides PDF
• Real Talk Provider Toolkit