A Message From ASAN Executive Director Julia Bascom
Dear friends of ASAN, This fall marks my 12th year of working for ASAN, and my 7th serving as our Executive Director. As I walk through ASAN’s offices in downtown…
September 28, 2023
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Teighlor McGee Grassroots Mini Grant Program Inaugural Recipients
…hard to narrow down the finalists. We at the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN) have the honor of announcing the following six recipients across both categories of mini grants! Self-advocates Transforming…
January 24, 2025
Joint Disability Letter in Support of NJ Transition Plan
…of the States online data set, available at http://www.stateofthestates.org/documents/NewJersey.pdf; US data profile available at http://www.stateofthestates.org/documents/UnitedStates.pdf [3] See settlement agreement in Disability Rights New Jersey v. Velez, agreement available at http://www.bazelon.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=lwXX02W3Q_4%3d&tabid=182….
February 26, 2015
#StopTheShock: The Judge Rotenberg Center, Torture, and How We can Stop It
…years later, in 2016, the FDA created a proposed rule that would ban the devices. A “proposed rule” is a draft of a rule. The government asks the public to…
June 25, 2020
ACT NOW to support fair pay and integrated employment for disabled people!
…is [your full name]. I’m calling to ask Representative/Senator [Foxx/Scott/Sanders/Cassidy] to add the Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act, or TCIEA, back into the final workforce and apprenticeship package and…
November 27, 2024
Here’s how you can fight back
…itself. Our communities are understandably scared, and that fear is what people in power are trying to create. But we are not powerless. ASAN, along with many other organizations and…
February 10, 2025
Publications Coordinator
The ASAN Publications Coordinator is in charge of the day-to-day and back-end operations of The Autistic Press (TAP), ASAN’s micropress. The Publications Coordinator serves as production editor for The Autistic…
January 16, 2014
ASAN Condemns New Religious Refusals of Care Rule
…The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization run by and for autistic people. ASAN was created to serve as a national grassroots disability rights organization for the…
May 2, 2019
Following Meeting with Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Disability Rights Advocates Release Statement and Readout
For Immediate Release: 1/14/2022 Contact: Jess Davidson, [email protected] Washington, D.C. – Today, following a meeting between leaders from disability rights organizations and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, advocates released the following…
January 14, 2022
Template Letter to FDA
…behavior, as well as our support of the FDA’s recent decision to place finalization of the proposed rule on its regulatory agenda. The FDA found in its 2016 proposed rule…
March 15, 2019