
🌧️ ASAN April Update 🌧️
…in our communities. ASAN thinks it is really bad that the budget resolution passed. The government should focus on helping disabled people live in our communities, not cutting taxes for…
…in our communities. ASAN thinks it is really bad that the budget resolution passed. The government should focus on helping disabled people live in our communities, not cutting taxes for…
ASAN November Newsletter Dear friend, The end of the year is coming fast, but during this hard month we were busier than ever! We’re making sure our community has the…
…the project. Right now, HHS does not appear to be creating a centralized list of autistic people that could be used against our community. We will keep the community involved,…
…Representative is on the House Appropriations Committee, you can email their office. If your Representative is not on this committee, you can email the subcommittee staff leads and other Committee…
…it alone, The Guardian (November 27, 2018, 10:01 a.m.), https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/27/gene-edited-babies-no-one-has-moral-warrant-go-it-alone; (3) Elliot Hosman, Slipping Into Eugenics? Nathaniel Comfort on the History Behind CRISPR, Biopolitical Times (July 23, 2015), https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/biopolitical-times/slipping-eugenics-nathaniel-comfort-history-behind-crispr?id=8741. ASAN…
…on the dollar was returned to the DC community. And nationally, only 4% of Autism Speaks’s budget goes toward family and community services. When it comes to research, the numbers…
…we released key talking points for community members to use in their comments during the American Psychiatric Association’s public comment period on the DSM-5. Over the course of the last…
…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…
ASAN December Newsletter Dear friend, As 2024 comes to an end and we prepare for the fights to come, we’re grateful to do it by your side! Check out what…
…not on this committee, you can email the subcommittee staff leads and other Committee staff. Our email tool will automatically email the right people for you. Then, get the word out by…