PETA Billboard Removed
Hello everyone, I am happy to announce that PETA’s recent, “Got Autism?” billboard has been removed by the advertising company hosting it. The billboard misinformed the public about the autism…
October 21, 2008
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A Letter Urging the Reissue of the FDA’s Ban on Electrical Stimulation Devices
…& Resources) Arc of Alabama Arizona Center for Disability Law Atlantis ADAPT Autism Society of America Autism Speaks Autistic People of Color Fund (APOC) Autistic Self Advocacy Network Autistic Women…
May 4, 2023
2016 ASAN Gala: Speech by Julia Bascom
…is not an ethical–or scientifically plausible–response to autism. Can you imagine? If you had told me five years ago that Autism Speaks would remove the word ‘cure’ from their mission…
December 12, 2016
Operational Policy on Research Inquiries
…example, the term “high-functioning autism” has no commonly agreed upon definition or criteria; and consistent distinctions have not been made between Asperger’s and other autism spectrum diagnoses, which tend to…
May 21, 2012
A Letter of Support for Legislation Banning Electric Stimulation Devices
…and Disability American Network of Community Options and Resources (ANCOR) Autism Society of America Autism Speaks Autistic Self Advocacy Network Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network Bazelon Center for Mental Health…
July 14, 2022
Cross-Disability Campaign Featured
ASAN President Ari Ne’eman and the ASAN-led cross-disability campaign against Autism Speaks’ video “I Am Autism” were featured in an article on Disability Scoop, an online news magazine about developmental…
September 25, 2009
New Scientist and Education Week Articles
ASAN President Ari Ne’eman and ASAN’s cross-disability campaign against Autism Speaks and its “I Am Autism” video were featured in articles that ran in New Scientist Magazine and on the…
September 29, 2009
USA Today Writes About Disability Without Disabled People (Again)
…our community speaks up when Autistic people are left out of conversations about autism, we should be speaking up when other groups of disabled people are excluded from conversations in…
January 8, 2013
White House Fails Autistic Community, Again
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is disappointed but not surprised by the White House’s continued participation in Autism Speaks’ “Light It Up Blue” campaign. If the Trump administration truly wanted…
April 3, 2019
Wrap Around Services and other urban myths
By Maddy McEwen; originally published on the blog Whitterer on Autism. This term of art only has meaning in the quagmire of America. Many of us have older autistic children…
March 12, 2009