…on the basis of Issy Stapleton’s disability. Violence against children and adults with disabilities is all too common. In 2012, child services agencies in 41 states substantiated over 67,000 cases…
…Jessica Kingsley Publishers, at www.jkp.com and then a new book just out, by Maxine Aston, which is a workbook for couples. Now, one of my concerns here is that other…
…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,…
…if you said that no one should “judge” the murder as wrong, if you said that Elizabeth Hodgins was “driven to murder” by George’s autism or by “lack of services,”…
…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…
