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
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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