…to shift the month’s focus from autism awareness to autism acceptance. The tagline for our Autism Acceptance Month website is “Acceptance is an action.” This means that autism acceptance is…
…like to welcome the new members of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee. The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is the leading organization run exclusively by individuals who are on the autism…
…autistic advocacy group. https://www.reframingautism.com.au/ Sesame Street and Autism – A resource that includes videos and articles for parents and kids, that are also available in Spanish. https://autism.sesamestreet.org/ Advocacy organizations Little…
…on the Inter-Agency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), which is responsible for overseeing all federal funds used on autism research, and in federally-funded programs on autism and other intellectual and developmental…
…we thought were urgent issues, urgent problems. And a lot of adults with autism, particularly those who describe themselves as a kind of neurodiversity community, are high-functioning people with autism,…
…the harm caused by functioning labels like “severe autism” or “low-functioning” autism; this new proposed term is no different. Instead of rehashing old, harmful arguments about functioning labels, we should…
…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,…
…focusing on advancing Autistic community and culture, issued the following statement on November 12th, 2013 regarding Autism Speaks’ “Autism Speaks to Washington” Policy Summit: We are profoundly concerned by Autism…
…the National Institutes of Health and other key autism research funders, but the area received very little investment as a result of the new autism research dollars made available by…
…on autism, research assistant at the UC Berkeley Psychology and Disability Labs, and was the first nonspeaking president of the student group, Autism:Spectrum At Cal. As a Haas Scholar, he…
