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Voluntarios

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Como organización de base pro derechos civiles de las personas con discapacidades, ASAN depende de voluntarios para ayudar con muchos aspectos de nuestro trabajo. Nuestros divisiones locales necesitan voluntarios para ayudar con proyectos comunitarios, la organización de eventos especiales, y otras actividades. También hay oportunidades en línea, como investigación...

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Letter to ACLU on Wrongful Birth and Life Statements

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As civil rights advocates, we are grateful for the ACLU's tireless work. However, we strongly feel that your defense of these suits fails to address issues that reach beyond reproductive choice and that profoundly affect people with disabilities....

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May 2012 Newsletter

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From The Board by Ari Ne’eman When it comes to disability advocacy, the details matter. A lot. For many years, the self-advocacy movement has worked to put out the right messages and help communicate the values of inclusion, self-determination, and community integration to the broader disability world. In some...

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Making Disability Studies Accessible

| Ari Ne'eman

by Ari Ne’eman Last week, Inside Higher Ed carried an intriguing piece from University of Maryland graduate student and New Inquiry editor Nathan Jurgenson. The article – Making Our Ideas More Accessible – made the case for academics to make their work available to the public through open access publications and...

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Autism, Being Autistic and Acceptance

| Amy Sequenzia

by Amy Sequenzia What is our place in the world? Who are we? Those questions should be easy to answer. Yet, they are not. For a long time, and still today, the answer to the “who are we” question was not directed at us. Non-autistic people defined autism and...

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We need to listen

| Liz Pellicano

by Liz Pellicano   When I was a young academic at Oxford University, I was lucky enough to work with several autistic students, helping them to negotiate the complexities of that ancient institution and of college life more generally. Every one of them touched my life – and influenced...

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Welcome to the Rest of International Autism Acceptance Year!

| Paula Durbin-Westby

by Paula Durbin-Westby Time marches on! Welcome to the rest of International Autism Acceptance Year! International Autism Acceptance Year (IAAY) is a continuation of the remarkable success of Autism Acceptance Day and Month, started in 2011 and currently in its second year. Autism Acceptance Day was started within the...

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