To the Autism Society of York
Billboard Removal Requested: ASAN has contacted the Autism Society of York, Pennsylvania, expressing concern about a billboard campaign depicting Autistic children as kidnapping victims.
August 16, 2009
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Justice for All Action Network
White House Disability Policy Meeting: The steering committee of the Justice for All Action Network (JFAAN), a cross-disability coalition, met for an hour with two senior White House officials to discuss some of our common policy priorities.
July 31, 2009
White House Celebration of Disability Rights
Americans with Disabilities Act Anniversary Celebration: We’ve posted photos of this White House event, attended by ASAN President Ari Ne’eman, at which President Barack Obama signed a proclamation commemorating the ADA and the rights of people with disabilities.
July 26, 2009
Career Choices for autistic people
An essay by Maddy McEwen. It makes for a delightful easy splot of nostalgia; ‘what will you be when you grow up?’ [We apply this to all family members on the theory that some day we adults may have different jobs!] Oh how it changes. All the usual fire fighter, super hero, artist options never see the light of day. Instead we have an eclectic collection of options, phases that they grow through. Do not allow your older children to destroy it as evidence they now find embarrassingly babyish.
July 25, 2009
Joint Letter to Secretary Sebelius on the Community Choice Act
Long Term Services and Supports Advocated: ASAN and several other disability rights organizations have sent a joint letter to Secretary Sebelius urging that the Community Choice Act, which would eliminate the institutional bias in Medicaid and enable people with disabilities to live in the community, be included in health care reform legislation.
July 20, 2009
ASAN Announces the AASPIRE Gateway Project
Collaborative Research Project: A gateway for research committed to inclusion, respect, accessibility, and community relevance, the AASPIRE Gateway Project is recruiting participants with and without disabilities and participants on the autistic spectrum.
June 25, 2009
Response to Autism Speaks’ AFAA Report
ASAN has issued a statement commenting on the AFAA report by Autism Speaks and several other organizations, which discusses adult supports and services.
June 25, 2009
Tony Attwood Says What He Really Thinks
Attwood himself started using, and still uses, the term “Cassandra Phenomenon” and also feels quite comfortable using “affective deprivation” at the same time that he publicly pretends to distance himself from the whole concept. In addition his unprofessional talk of the partner of a person with AS “becoming Aspie- it’s an infectious process” is both inaccurate and also demeaning.
June 22, 2009
ASAN’s Response to Dr. Tony Attwood
Dr. Tony Attwood Provides Inadequate Reply: After ASAN called on him to disassociate himself from hate groups, Dr. Attwood replied with only a form letter, sent to numerous recipients, which wholly failed to address his associations with Maxine Aston and FAAAS and the ongoing harm to Autistics and others with disabilities resulting from these associations.
June 15, 2009
My middle name
An essay by Melanie Yergeau. The map is new, and I know it all. I hop from one painted state to the next, reciting each capital, each state bird, each state nickname, each state flower, each state population as of 1989, the year imprinted on the spines of my World Book Encyclopedia set.
May 30, 2009
Newsweek Article
ASAN President Ari Ne’eman was profiled in Newsweek Magazine discussing the Autistic community’s concerns around genetic testing and the need for a new direction in…
May 15, 2009
NFB Disability Law Symposium Keynote from ASAN President Ari Ne’eman
Where do rights come from? We go out to the world and we tell them in so many ways that it is time for our rights to be realized. We talk about inclusion, we talk about integration, we talk about access, but when we are asked why, our answers are typically phrased in the language of either cost-benefit or desperate need. The one turns our civil rights struggle into a conversation on policy technicalities; the other evokes the very charity-oriented model of disability support that we have been trying to escape.
May 8, 2009