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ASAN: Tell Congress “No” to Three More Years of the Same On Autism Policy

Sunday, May 29th, 2011

The Combating Autism Re-authorization Act (CARA) has been started in the U.S. legislature. The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN) has issued a position statement on the bill: Today, Senators Menendez and Enzi will be introducing legislation extending the Combating Autism Act for three more years. The Combating Autism Act was passed in 2005 without the involvement [...]

Posted in ASAN, Action Groups, Adults, Advocacy, Ari Ne'eman, Autism, IACC, Politics | 1 Comment »

What I did with your money

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Now LBRB is successfully moved (with a few little bits of tidying needed her and there) I need to tell you what I did with the nearly $1000 so generously donated. First and foremost of course I bought some new hosting. I think you’ll agree that the site feels much faster and slicker as a [...]

Posted in Action Groups, Autism, Autism Science Foundation, Blogging, National Autism Association, Speur Ghlan, This Blog | 16 Comments »

ACT Now!

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

UK Autism campaigners are working together to ‘ACT NOW!’ about the proposed benefit cuts and assessments and have launched a petition which we intend to deliver personally to No 10 Downing Street. Please ACT NOW! and sign by accessing: http://actnow01.web.officelive.com/default.aspx The proposed benefit cuts and the assessments will begin in 2013 for those on the [...]

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UKAF launches a Keep The Promise Autism Awareness Campaign

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

The UK Autism Foundation is issuing a call to all supporters to back the Foundation’s new ‘Keep The Promise’ Autism Awareness Campaign that we are launching. We first started the Autism Awareness Campaign in 2000 but we feel that there is a great deal of unfinished business on autism in the United Kingdom and we [...]

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