…protect PETS so students with disabilities get off to a good start. Competitive Integrated Employment Competitive integrated employment is a kind of job you can have. We will call it…
…Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Autism Research. We began by reviewing the potential implications of the DSM-5 draft criteria on services, supports, and accommodations: Download the PDF here: What…
…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…
Nine years ago, Congress passed the Combating Autism Act (CAA), legislation that focused federal autism research and policy activities on creating a world without autistic people. In 2011, Congress re-authorized…
Nine years ago, Congress passed the Combating Autism Act (CAA), legislation that focused federal autism research and policy activities on creating a world without autistic people. In 2011, Congress re-authorized…
…is a concept with which they are completely unfamiliar. Teachers, therapists, psychologists, and parents find the idea completely foreign, though not always completely unwelcome. Communicating primarily online creates this illusion…
From protests to policymaking, the disability community has spent years fighting for our right to be fully included in our communities. Generations of disabled activists fought for our rights to…
…Civil Rights, Issue Brief No. 1, Civil Rights Data Collection Data Snapshot: School Discipline 1 (Mar. 21, 2014), https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/crdc-discipline-snapshot.pdf. ↑7 Id. ↑8 For more information on this phenomenon, See Amanda…
…on where autism research dollars were being spent. “According to the recently released IACC Research Portfolio, less than one percent of autism research dollars spent in 2009 went to research…
…shock devices for over 20 years, would come up. Miller told legislative aides that he had actually worked extensively with Brandon while at JRC, and that his behavior was completely…
