Keynote Address on Disability Law
On Friday, April 17th, 2009 ASAN President Ari Ne’eman delivered the keynote address at the National Federation of the Blind’s Disability Law Symposium. You can listen to…
April 17, 2009
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Disability Studies Article
ASAN President Ari Ne’eman and Columbia University Professor Alicia A. Broderick co-authored “Autism as metaphor: narrative and counter-narrative,” which was published in a special issue of The International…
December 16, 2008
PETA Billboard Removed
Exploitative and Misleading Billboard Withdrawn: A billboard created by PETA misinformed the public about the autism spectrum by falsely implying that milk consumption was the cause of autism. Our community came together to communicate the need for a swift withdrawal of this ill-informed piece of advertising.
October 21, 2008
Education Week Story
ASAN President Ari Ne’eman appeared in the story In Advocacy Realm, Specific Disabilities Gain in Prominence in the Sept. 17, 2008 issue of Education Week magazine.
September 17, 2008
Successful Response to Ransom Notes
Both the Washington Post and the New York Daily News carried stories about the success of the disability community’s response to the “Ransom Notes” ad campaign, in which ASAN’s…
December 20, 2007
Victory! The End of the Ransom Notes Campaign
Ransom Notes Ads to be Removed: ASAN and the disability community’s united efforts succeed in getting the NYU Child Study Center to withdraw the “Ransom Notes” ad campaign.
December 19, 2007
Ransom Notes Controversy
ASAN’s response to the “Ransom Notes” campaign was reported in The New York Times and in The Wall Street Journal Online.
December 14, 2007
An Urgent Call to Action: Tell NYU Child Study Center to Abandon Stereotypes Against People With Disabilities
Urgent Action Required: The NYU Ransom Notes campaign defames people on the autism spectrum and others of neurological difference. Take action now!
December 8, 2007
Disability & Neurological Diversity
An essay by Ilise Feitshans. Disability, if viewed appropriately as a universal facet of the human condition, is a cross cutting issue that unites all people: Everyone has a disability, everyone has a gift. Society needs the benefits from each of these features of individual variability to promote human progress and benefit from interdependence…
November 24, 2006