These comments are available as a PDF here. The Autistic Self Advocacy Network appreciates the opportunity to submit comments for the January 24, 2024, IACC meeting. In our last comments…
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…images. Another essential component of effective communication is maintaining access to routinely used communication supports. Many children with developmental disabilities are nonspeaking or unreliably speaking. This is particularly true for…
…companies can’t put annual or lifetime caps on health insurance. Before the ACA, insurance companies could make it so that once the insurance company spent a certain amount of money…
…verbal speech. As described above, nonspeaking autistic people have a range of assessed verbal and nonverbal IQs, and IQ tests lack validity for nonspeakers. Both populations do share one key…
…a biracial and neuroscopious nonbinary individual, they have over a decade’s worth of experience in community organizing and building safe(r) queer Muslim spaces. They currently live on occupied and unceded…
…a wide variety of possible forms of communication, including verbal communication, behavior as communication, and augmentative and assistive communication (AAC) devices. At least one-third of autistic people are not able…
…previously submitted comments to the IACC focusing on support for communication access beyond oral speech. As we stated in those comments, there is troublingly little research in IACC’s database from…
…lack of resources and community supports. Our country must prioritize community-based resources — and recognize people experiencing homelessness as part of our communities. We know that options like supportive housing…
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