🏖️ ASAN July Update 🏖️
…your voices heard. We held our Autism Campus Inclusion (ACI) Leadership Academy this month, where a cohort of autistic students learn to make their college campuses better for people with…
July 31, 2024
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🐋 ASAN August Update 🐋
…Instead, autistic SGMs, particularly those of color, are excluded from & mistreated in clinical & research settings, resulting in adverse health outcomes. Autism alone does not create these disparities. To…
August 31, 2024
ASAN Comments on HHS Proposed Updates to Section 504
…HHS’ concern about the unmodified application of these tools to people who may be nonspeaking or lack full control of their movements due to disabilities like autism or cerebral palsey….
November 14, 2023
ASAN condemns possible shortening of COVID-19 isolation guidelines
…for protecting the public from the ongoing risk of COVID-19. The Autistic Self Advocacy Network seeks to advance the principles of the disability rights movement with regard to autism. ASAN…
February 15, 2024
❤️ASAN February Update ❤️
…works best for you. There’s only a few days left to apply for the 2024 Autism Campus Inclusion (ACI) Leadership Academy! The ACI summer leadership training prepares autistic students to…
February 29, 2024
ASAN Calls on Texas to Stop Robert Roberson’s Execution
…principles of the disability rights movement with regard to autism. ASAN believes that the goal of autism advocacy should be a world in which autistic people enjoy equal access, rights,…
October 1, 2024
ASAN Statement on the Exclusion of Tyler Long’s Autism Spectrum Diagnosis from the Documentary Bully
…is profoundly disturbed that the makers of Bully chose to exclude the fact of Tyler’s diagnosis on the autism spectrum entirely from the film. In a recent statement, the filmmakers…
April 10, 2012
ASAN’s Response to Dr. Tony Attwood
… Dr. Attwood: I would like to state quite clearly that having a diagnosis of autism or Asperger’s syndrome does not render a person automatically incapable of being a good…
June 15, 2009
ASAN Talking Points on DSM-5
…including developmental disabilities. The proposed changes include a revised definition of autism that will combine several existing diagnostic categories into one unified autism spectrum category. Visit the DSM-5 public comment…
May 7, 2012
ACTION ALERT: Will Your Member of Congress Support Autistic People?
Dear friends, We need your help. This summer, President Obama signed into law the Autism CARES Act, replacing the Combating Autism Act and giving us an opportunity to turn over…
September 23, 2014