Can’t Be Choosers
…were out of my price range. With a great deal of help from Disability Services, I applied for several scholarships and was accepted. I hoped to use the scholarships to…
April 15, 2010
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ASAN Statement On The Killing Of Nancy Fitzmaurice
…In cases where painkillers are insufficient, a number of alternatives for pain management exist. A policy of euthanasia targets vulnerable people, particularly when it is applied to children. People with…
October 28, 2014
Autistic Self Advocacy Network Comments on Title IX Regulations
…could be applied to any question. A school could, therefore, exclude all the statements of a sexual assault victim because they refused to answer a single question. ASAN recommends that…
September 13, 2022
Policy Advocacy Toolkits
…regarding social communication, sensory integration, emotional regulation, and adaptive skills. Until now, much advocacy for coverage of “autism interventions” has focused on purely behavioral approaches, like Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA)….
April 10, 2014
ASAN Opposes Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh
…care. Supreme Court appointments are for life, and the cases he hears will determine how laws are applied across the country. If placed on the Supreme Court, Judge Kavanaugh could…
August 13, 2018
ASAN Comment on Healthy Pennsylvania 1115 Demonstration Application
…account the resources available to the states and the needs of others with mental disabilities. Pennsylvania’s Application, facially and as applied, is discriminatory and violates these ADA principles and federal…
April 10, 2014
Transcript and Video of Julia Bascom’s Keynote at Drexel University
…money. They could move money from NIH to other research agencies that focus more on applied research. They could require NIH to rebalance its spending, or put a certain amount…
January 11, 2021
🍂 ASAN November Update 🍂
…the #StopTheShock front. After a vote by the membership of Applied Behavioral Analysis International (ABAI), the governing body of ABA practitioners, ABAI now officially opposes the use of electric skin…
November 30, 2022
ASAN Comments on Public Charge ANPRM
…government benefits. Nonetheless, in the interest of ensuring that the rule is applied fairly, ASAN proposes the following definition of the term “public charge”: A person likely to become a…
October 26, 2021
❄️ ASAN December Update ❄️
…explains the ethical problems at the heart of the most popular autism intervention, applied behavioral analysis (ABA), as well as the lack of evidence to support ABA. “For Whose Benefit?”…
December 28, 2021