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…We still need you contacting your Senators and Representatives until September 30th. That is the last day this bill can legally pass. Here’s what you can do: Call your Members…
…We still need you contacting your Senators and Representatives until September 30th. That is the last day this bill can legally pass. Here’s what you can do: Call your Members…
…the state’s proposed assisted suicide bill without inviting any representatives of the disability community as witnesses. People with disabilities, who are often presumed to be better off dead than disabled,…
…and say, in a tone meant to comfort us, “but, you know, he’s very high-functioning.” And I’d glance at J., and he’d look off into the distance for a split-second,…
…workers with disabilities.” Although Section 503 regulations have been in place for decades, the current unemployment rate for people with disabilities is 13 percent, 1 1/2 times the rate of…
…10 Jun. 2014, available at http://www.motherjones*]}*.com/politics/2007/08/school-shock. ASAN itself has heard reports from many people with developmental disabilities who have had an ESD used on them.10An excellent resource that collects such…
…Rights Data Collection Data Snapshot: School Discipline 1 (Mar. 21, 2014), https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/crdc-discipline-snapshot.pdf. Suspended students were also more likely to be students with disabilities.7Id. The racial and ethnic disparities in the…
…receiving services to receive funding for needed supports and services for daily living, housing, employment, and other ADL (activities of daily living) and integration in the community. Note that although…
…on freedom. If the majority of the people in these societies truly knew, truly understood what is going on under their noses and being done in their names, they would…
…the lives, contributions, struggles, and uniqueness of the Black community during this Black History Month while also conversing publicly and transparently about what our organization, our community, and greater society…
…ACI. ASAN is proud to help future leaders in our community develop their advocacy skills, and to provide resources that people with disabilities can use to understand and weigh in…