🦖ASAN April Update🦖
…we’ve been working on this month and what work is still to come! We were excited to begin Autism Acceptance Month seeing the White House celebrate World Autism Acceptance Day…
April 30, 2024
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Disability Community Condemns Autism Speaks
…and unethical practices by autism organization Washington, DC – More than 60 national, international, and local disability rights organizations have signed onto a letter condemning the organization Autism Speaks for…
October 7, 2009
Comments for April 17 IACC Meeting
…the Autism CARES Act1Autism CARES Act of 2019, H.R. 1058, S. 427, 116th Cong. (2019). and its annual commemoration of Autism Acceptance Month,2Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Autism Acceptance Month: Acceptance…
April 18, 2019
Comments for July 21-22nd IACC Meeting
…2020 meetings due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) will resume its efforts to ensure that funding for autism research is properly allocated. New meetings for…
July 7, 2021
Autism: From Awareness to Understanding to Acceptance and Appreciation
…don’t understand autism simply by watching a movie or reading a book. A child or adult with autism is every bit an individual as anyone else. The “spectrum” for autism…
July 31, 2012
Comments for the April 17th IACC Meeting
…National Autism Coordinator ensure that all coordinating agencies know about all the autism activities being worked on and how the NIH checks that agencies do not conduct duplicative autism activities…
April 3, 2024
Acceptance is an Action: ASAN Statement on 10th Anniversary of AAM
…autism, shifting it away from stigmatizing “autism awareness” language that presents autism as a threat to be countered with vigilance. Ten years ago, when Autism Acceptance Month started, advocacy organizations…
April 2, 2021
ASAN Comments Re: Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act
…in more detail below. Autism Examples Should Not Reference or Be Limited To Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) Although ABA has grown very prominent as an autism intervention over the last…
October 18, 2023
November 2012 Newsletter
…to the protest of Autism Speaks’ “Walk for Autism” in DC earlier this month, in October chapter leader Andy Voss and ASAN’s Sacramento chapter led a protest against Autism Speaks’…
November 27, 2012
Comments at November 21, 2008 IACC Meeting
…research community (or the professional community) to treat autism like it’s a disease or illness. Autism is a developmental disability and not a condition that stands alone. Autism is often…
November 21, 2008