Racism is a Public Health Issue
by Sandy Ho Content warnings: statements about medical trauma (no graphic descriptions) and mention of eating and exercise I recently observed that there were a few additional…
August 24, 2021
Research
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ASAN July Newsletter Dear friends, This has been a busy month for ASAN, full of advocacy and new resources to share. We celebrated the 31st…
July 30, 2021
Autism Research: Nothing About Us, Without Us!
Today, the new membership of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) was announced. The IACC is a committee that advises the federal government on autism…
July 7, 2021
Comments for July 21-22nd IACC Meeting
These comments are available as a PDF here. Thank you for the opportunity to submit written comments. The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) is pleased that,…
July 7, 2021
Acceptance is an Action: ASAN Statement on 10th Anniversary of AAM
ASAN is pleased to commemorate the 10th annual Autism Acceptance Month this year. Over the past ten years, autistic advocates have transformed our society’s conversation…
April 2, 2021
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ASAN March Newsletter Dear friends, This has been a difficult month for many of our community members. We began the month with the virtual vigil…
March 31, 2021
Transcript and Video of Julia Bascom’s Keynote at Drexel University
Nothing About Us Without Us: Autistic People Shaping Policy About Our Lives Hi, thank you so much for having me, and thank you Michael for…
January 11, 2021
ASAN Submits Brief Opposing Autism-Related Arguments of Charleston Shooter’s Defense Team
On June 17, 2015, a man opened fire on a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina and killed nine people, committing one of the deadliest…
December 22, 2020
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Dear friends, October is coming to an end, and we wish we could say that Halloween was the scariest thing happening this week. But…
October 30, 2020
COVID-19 Case Tracker
Documenting the impact of COVID-19 on people with disabilities in congregate settings COVID-19 is spreading uncontrolled through institutions, and people with disabilities are paying the…
April 29, 2020
ASAN Comments on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing
These comments are available as a PDF here. 1. Which diseases and conditions, if any, do you see as appropriate for human germline genome editing?…
October 8, 2019
ASAN Statement on 2018 CDC Prevalence Data
Today, the Centers for Disease Control released the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network report, which estimates the prevalence of autism in certain areas….
April 26, 2018