…companies can’t put annual or lifetime caps on health insurance. Before the ACA, insurance companies could make it so that once the insurance company spent a certain amount of money…
What does community mean to you? For some people, this question doesn’t mean much but for the hundreds of thousands of Americans receiving Medicaid Home and Community Based Services (HCBS),…
…co-editor. His first full book of poems, Time Travel in a Closet, will be released in 2017 from NeuroQueer Books. Links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/teselectamultiverse AutPress: http://autpress.com Barking Sycamores: http://neurodiversitymatters.com/barkingsycamores…
…on speech alone to communicate. Run by and for people with expressive communication disabilities, CommunicationFIRST advances its mission by educating and engaging the public, advocating for policy and practice reform,…
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…
…contact Julia Bascom, Deputy Executive Director of ASAN, at jbascom@autisticadvocacy.org. References[+] References ↑1 Ann Griswold, “Large Swedish study ties autism to early death,” Spectrum News, December 11, 2015, https://spectrumnews.org/news/large-swedish-study-ties-autism-to-early-death/….
…in the Americans with Disabilities Act but in the Combating [sic] Autism Act!) Estee Klar, founder of The Autism Acceptance Project (http://taap.org) says “Words used to describe autistic people as…
…their own time. In order to live in fully inclusive and integrated communities, individuals with disabilities, especially those living in provider-owned or controlled housing units, need to be protected to…
…to receive services that are truly community-based and that respect our rights. The training prepared self advocates to inform people in their communities about the setting rule, and gave strategies…
…their experiences of racism, exclusion, and underrepresentation in autistic communities and in organized advocacy. And many of our community members have reached out to ASAN, urging us to do better…
