…help people with disabilities achieve competitive integrated employment. These activities demonstrate the ACL’s commitment to increasing access to supports and services and fostering independence for people with disabilities. These efforts…
…Campus Inclusion (ACI) Leadership Academy! The ACI summer leadership training prepares autistic students to engage in disability advocacy on their college campuses. ACI participants learn about making student groups, understanding…
…is grateful for this opportunity to provide comment on the proposed rule from Food and Drug Administration (FDA), “Banned Devices; Proposal to Ban Electrical Stimulation Devices Used to Treat Self-Injurious…
…a chilling effect on academic research. We do not believe the standards in the proposed rule would chill academic research. If anything, the rule’s failure to address the use of…
…we’re redoubling our efforts on topics like employment – continuing our collaboration with Freddie Mac and looking to develop resources aimed at empowering self-advocacy in employment, as we have in…
…lot of federal rules that matter a lot to our community. Federal rules are made by the executive branch to make sure laws are followed. Some of these rules make…
In the past five years, over 570 people with disabilities have been murdered by their parents, relatives or caregivers. On Friday, March 1st, the disability community will gather across the…
…doing the opposite.6 The financial effects of subminimum wage are devastating. No combination of SSI or SSDI payments with subminimum wage grants financial freedom. According to a 2023 report from…
…harm from ABA interventions and the relatively weak evidence base for ABA interventions. Recognizing these concerns, other federal agencies have typically referred to autism services more generally, explicitly clarifying ABA…
…the requisite knowledge and/or expertise to address this question. ASAN notes that the current evidence of long-term effects and potential unintended effects of genome editing is limited, or at the…
