Contacting your Members of Congress
Thank you for letting your members of Congress know you support integrated employment and the Transformation to Competitive Employment Act (TCEA)! If you live in the United States, you have…
June 6, 2019
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Tell Congress to support real work for real pay!
…many of us are still warehoused at dead-end, segregated workshops that pay pennies on the dollar. The Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act (TCIEA) would end the discriminatory practice of…
April 28, 2021
November 2012 Newsletter
…Envision act as though they are anything but a last resort for blind persons seeking employment. The fact is that many tens of thousands of blind people have found employment…
November 27, 2012
How are YOU taking action this TCEA Tuesday? ✊
…for accommodations that would let her work with everyone else were “a waste of taxpayer money”. They both now work in integrated employment, but too many people are still trapped…
August 13, 2019
Comments for the April 17th IACC Meeting
…We appreciate the projects that have focused on preparing autistic people for competitive integrated employment and the handful of efficacy studies that examine these programs. Specific employment research can and…
April 3, 2024
ASAN Condemns President’s Budget Request
…healthcare, education and employment, and income supports (such as through Social Security and housing programs). At its core, the budget aims to slash funding for social services while imposing work…
March 20, 2019
ASAN Celebrates Legislation To End Subminimum Wage
ASAN applauds Congress for the introduction of the Transformation to Competitive Employment Act. If passed, the Transformation to Competitive Employment Act would end subminimum wage for people with disabilities, and…
January 28, 2019
ASAN Welcomes Legislation To End Subminimum Wage
ASAN applauds Congress for the introduction of the Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act (TCIEA). If passed, the Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act would end subminimum wage for people…
April 5, 2021
Building an Inclusive Rights Agenda for Autistic Adults: Joint Statement from ASAN and the Republic of Malta
…Disability Rights New York, spoke about the issue of employment, a core challenge in the autistic community. Her emphasis was on the shift from token employment and sheltered employment, towards…
June 17, 2016
Address to Florida Autism Task Force on World Autism Day
…people currently capable of living independently and holding competitive employment and those with more significant support needs before those goals are conceivable to them. There are those of us who…
April 2, 2008