🌸 ASAN March Update 🌸
…DC vigil, virtual vigil, and the many other vigils here. On March 17th, the Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Settings Rule went into effect. This Rule is all about our…
…DC vigil, virtual vigil, and the many other vigils here. On March 17th, the Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Settings Rule went into effect. This Rule is all about our…
…research we want done matters, but we’re often left out of setting priorities for funding research. That leaves us with research about us that doesn’t reflect our entire community. No…
…in public and private schools. The majority of students in the study were students with disabilities. “When passed by the Senate and signed by President Obama, this legislation will be…
…of the largest federal investment in home- and community-based services (HCBS) in the Build Back Better Act. With so much at stake for our community, we’re not giving up on…
…Previously, she worked as a special assistant at the Administration for Community Living, and as a policy analyst on Senator Tom Harkin’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee staff. In…
…to make community-based services available, it is often necessary to rebalance funding toward community-based services as opposed to institutional settings. For example, Congress authorized federal reimbursement to states who provide…
…composition of the committee, and that is to include another agency with a focus on actual research across the lifespan. For example, the The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation…
Posted on April 28, 2021 People with disabilities live better lives when we are included in our local communities. That’s just as true when it comes to work as…
…those with autism. Adults with autism would be included in – indeed they would lead! –conversations about people with autism (in their own communities, in the State house, in research…
…the therapies that “modified” their behavior. Such therapies ignored the real reasons for stimming and made the neurotypicals around those autistics more comfortable. Some things like making eye contact with…