…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…
…and to ensuring the full autistic community is included in disability rights advocacy, including people with significant communication challenges, support needs, and intellectual disability. Have demonstrated commitment to the civil and…
…policies that affect us. We’ve worked hard to build the advocacy infrastructure our movement needs, fought back countless attacks on our community, and made sure our community has accessible tools…
…which differ from our own, nonsense is everywhere.This presentation will focus on common forms of false information — and on why it is false. Attendees should learn to identify common…
…been facing for years. They then set about finding and building community with other Autistics and finding common ground with the larger cross-disability community. Assistant Secretary of Education Alexa Posny…
…with lived experience as a “portal communicating to us what needs to change in society so that people want to live.” Quality wrap-around services—not involuntary hospitalization—must be prioritized. The co-occurrence…
…let us live in our communities. Some of these rules also say what the government, hospitals, or other people need to do to respect our rights and not discriminate against…
…to provide evidence and commentary to the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing. The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) – a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization created…
…have killed me outright had I not had a strong disability community fighting for me.” In return, sie fought for the community and community itself. Over the last few years,…
…discussion draft further reduce the number of clear and comprehensive comments that the Committee is likely to receive. The “Your Comments” section of the public comment submission form limits responses…
