Despite leading disability rights organizations’ long history of opposition to legalization of assisted suicide, the New Jersey Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee held a hearing yesterday on…
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network applauds Sprint for their newly announced “Neurodiversity ID Pack” containing a number of apps designed to support people with cognitive and developmental disorders. By selecting…
ASAN February Newsletter Dear friend, No matter how short the month is, there’s plenty of work going on here at ASAN! From educating our community on contagious illnesses to urging…
…Advocacy Network Support our work Statement on Reducing Police Responses to People with Disabilities ASAN Comments on Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine Disability Community Joint Letter on ICE Forced Sterilizations…
…like an exit interview process for staff who might leave ASAN. We also wrote down the steps we take when we release statements, as part of the larger project to…
…Portlight Inclusive Disaster Strategies as well as your local government. Finally, yesterday ASAN released a statement on working towards racial justice in our own organization and in the autistic community….
…help managing their money from owning a gun.1ASAN Statement on SSA Representative Payee Gun Database Rule, Autistic Self Advocacy Network (May 2, 2016), https://autisticadvocacy.org/2016/05/asan-statement-on-ssa-representative-payee-gun-database-rule/. Congress later passed a law that…
…racism as a disability issue. ASAN is a board member of CCD, a coalition of almost 100 national disability organizations. In this statement, the coalition mourns the murders of Black…
…a statement on genetic research and autism. Written in plain language, this statement gives background information on autism research, lays out ASAN’s concerns about genetic research as applied to autism,…
…With Mental Illness ASAN Comments on CMS HCBS Recommended Measure Set ASAN 2020 Gala ASAN’s 2020 Annual Report Sign up here to get our monthly newsletter emailed to you! ASAN…
