🌼 ASAN May Update 🌼
…cuts to SNAP. ASAN and the American Civil Liberties Union, alongside disability rights, civil rights, and public health organizations and professionals, sent a letter to HHS Secretary Kennedy about NIH’s…
May 31, 2025
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ASAN Signs CPSD Letter Opposing Threats to the Administration for Community Living (ACL)
This letter is available as a PDF here. May 8th, 2025 Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee 428 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510-6300 Senate Finance Committee…
May 7, 2025
NFB Disability Law Symposium Keynote from ASAN President Ari Ne’eman
…rights, disability rights, immigrant rights, GLBT rights, commercial rights, social rights, privacy rights, animal rights, children’s rights, student rights, parental rights and countless more. Though we may not all agree…
May 8, 2009
CommunicationFIRST Nothing About Us Without Us Awardee Remarks
…disability community. We will be sharing their remarks for the first few months of 2025. ⁂ Five years ago, we created CommunicationFIRST to secure the universal human and civil rights…
January 21, 2025
Tell Your Legislators: Protect Medicaid!
…can happen in institutions or in people’s homes or the community. When people get LTSS at home, that is called Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS). When someone gets HCBS, they…
May 23, 2025
All About the Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act (TCIEA)
…job. Companies cannot segregate disabled workers. Companies that never had a 14(c) certificate cannot get a new 14(c) certificate. That means new companies cannot start segregating disabled workers. Companies also…
September 19, 2024
Transcript and Video of Julia Bascom’s Keynote at Drexel University
…comes out of the broader disability rights movement, of which we are a part. The disability rights movement has a long and complicated history, but for simplicity’s sake I will…
January 11, 2021
❄️ ASAN December Update ❄️
…a part of the CCD Education Task Force, we signed onto comments to the U.S. Department of Education (ED) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) regarding proposed updates to the Civil…
December 31, 2024
What We Believe
…Read, so every autistic person can understand the information that impacts our lives. Disability Rights are Civil Rights The disability rights movement is one part of the larger civil rights…
June 25, 2021
Disability Rights and Privacy Advocates Raise Concerns with Proposed Autism “Registry”
Letter to RFK, Jr. Details Risks of Surveillance, Stigmatization, and Marginalization WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), and 80 other disability rights, civil…
May 13, 2025