March 24, 2013
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ASAN Releases Policy Brief on Organ Transplant Discrimination
Twenty-three years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, people with disabilities continue to face persistent and ongoing discrimination and lack of access…
March 18, 2013
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…
March 12, 2013
Disability Day of Mourning – Remember Lives Taken
Join Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, Not Dead Yet, and the National Council on Independent Living in remembering people with disabilities who have lost their lives at…
February 19, 2013
Letter to Food and Drug Administration on the Judge Rotenberg Center
Margaret Hamburg Commissioner 10903 New Hampshire Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20993 US Food and Drug Administration Dear Commissioner Hamburg: We, the undersigned representatives of the…
February 12, 2013
January 2013 Newsletter
Message to the Community Ring out the old, bring in the new. 2012 came and went in a flash. We here at the Autistic Self Advocacy…
January 29, 2013
ASAN Statement on Fein Study on Autism and “Recovery”
Recently, an article[i] argued that some Autistic children reach what they call the “optimal outcome” of moving out of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This study…
January 23, 2013
APRAIS Drafts Letter on Funding for the Judge Rotenberg Center
The Alliance to Prevent Restraint, Aversive Interventions, and Seclusions (APRAIS), in collaboration with ASAN and other disability advocacy organizations, has drafted the following letter to…
January 18, 2013
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…
January 16, 2013
ASAN Thanks a Visionary Leader for Four Years of Trailblazing
On Wednesday, January 9th, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis submitted her resignation to President Obama. She was initially confirmed as Secretary of Labor in February…
January 16, 2013
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…
January 10, 2013
USA Today Writes About Disability Without Disabled People (Again)
by Ari Ne’eman, ASAN President Last May, I and other advocates crashed a party – a twitter party, to be exact. USA Today had put…
January 8, 2013