…and critical thinking: identify effective strategies for advocacy; analyze information and legal or legislative proposals to determine whether a policy or course of action has a sound basis; effectively prioritize…
…some of its former staff — reversed course, spoke out against the torture, and fought to end it. We are grateful to everyone who took a stand, and to the…
…of course be implemented. But on their own, they are a shockingly insufficient response to the deaths of eleven children. The undersigned organizations are gravely concerned that this is the…
Over the course of the last year, ASAN and our allies have been working with our allies in Congress to craft groundbreaking new legislation on employment of people with disabilities….
…final meeting last Wednesday, much to do was made about semantic disagreements — “ASD individual” versus “individual with ASD,” and of course, the dreaded “person with autism” or “person who…
…programs known as Comprehensive Transition and Postsecondary Programs (CTPs). Through these programs, students with intellectual disabilities can take college courses and strive for program-specific educational credentials, often a certificate of…
…$15,000 benchmark, one of those projects will be a documentary looking at conversations around eugenics. Others are planned, of course. We’ve got a list of film projects, we’re still taking…
…only people who will be offended are too retarded to understand it,” in response to criticism of her recent tweet. Of course, that isn’t true. As John Stevens, a man…
…high school graduate who is attending a 4-year college in order to obtain an undergraduate degree and a student taking a community college course on track for a certificate of…
…that her opinions, her perspectives, her views would be disregarded because she was autistic. I of course respected her wishes but suggested nevertheless that this probably wouldn’t be the case,…
