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Category Archives: News
Selected newsworthy articles about ASAN’s actions and statements on matters of public importance can be found here. Other categories of articles, along with past entries sorted by date and tag, can be accessed via the sitemap.
ASAN Praises ED Final Rule Eliminating Modified Assessment
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network praises the US Department of Education for its newly issued Final Rule, eliminating the ability of states to apply assessments based on modified academic achievement standards for 2 percent of students. The shift away from modified assessments represents an important affirmation of the need...
ASAN Statement on GAO Report on Autism Research Funding
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network takes note of the recently released June 30th, 2015 analysis of autism research funding from the Government Accountability Office. The report, which updates a November 2013 analysis, sheds light on the continued significant gaps in autism research funding priorities, most notably the lack of...
ASAN Calls for Increased Support for Self-Determination and Effective Communication in Adult Protective Services
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), the nation’s leading advocacy organization by and for autistic individuals ourselves, applauds the recent announcement by the United States Department of Justice and Department of Health and Human Services regarding their partnership to help child welfare agencies remain in compliance with federal civil...
ASAN Atlanta Statement on Georgia’s Illegal Segregation of Students with Disabilities
The Atlanta Chapter of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network strongly condemns the state of Georgia’s illegal segregation of students with disabilities, violating Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The United States Department of Justice’s recent letter of findings, which identified widespread segregation of children with disabilities at school,...
Posted in Inclusive Education and College, News, Policy
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ASAN Letter to FCC Regarding Relay Services
This letter is available as a PDF here. August 10th, 2015 Thomas Wheeler Chairman Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street SW, Washington, D.C. 20554 Dear Chairman Wheeler, The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), the leading autistic advocacy organization run by autistic people, asks that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)...
ASAN Praises ED Letter Urging Schools to Look Beyond ABA
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network applauds the Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) for their July 6th Dear Colleague letter to states expressing concern that schools may be inappropriately limiting services offered to autistic children to those offered by Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) therapists. “Some IDEA...
Posted in News, Preventing Abuse and Bullying, Therapies and Health Care
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ASAN Calls for Justice in Troy Canales Police Brutality Case
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Last November, NYPD officers allegedly physically assaulted a black autistic teenager, throwing him face-down to the sidewalk outside his home, punching him in the face, and then taking him to the station-house to interrogate him before finally releasing him without charges. According to his attorneys, Troy Canales was stopped...
Posted in Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, News
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Tagged police misconduct, Troy Canales
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Justice for All: Improving Employment Programs for Workers with Disabilities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, July 20, 2015 Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a coalition of organizations including the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, TASH, the American Association of People with Disabilities, the Association of People Supporting Employment First, the Service Employees International Union...
Posted in Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, News
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Tagged employment, SEIU, subminimum wage, Transition to Independence Act
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ASAN Testimony on Assisted Suicide
I write as Director of Public Policy of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), and a member of the Board of Not Dead Yet, to oppose the Death with Dignity Act. Physician-assisted suicide legislation endangers people with disabilities, including disabilities resultIng from illness. Supporters frequently focus on the “indignity” of needing help...
ASAN Statement on Sentencing in Jude Mirra’s Murder
This statement is available as a Word document and in PDF format. Last week, eight-year-old Jude Mirra’s mother, Gigi Jordan, was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for killing her autistic son after a jury found her guilty of manslaughter last fall. Jude was murdered over five years ago...
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