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Autism Science Foundation offering places at IMFAR 2010

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Funds will enable parents and other stakeholders to attend the leading autism research conference and share what they’ve learned with the broader autism community. The Autism Science Foundation today announced that is offering a limited number of grants to parents of children with autism and other stakeholders to support attendance at the International Meeting for [...]

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Less evolved creatures

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Back in of this year, Wired did a piece called ‘An Epidemic of Fear’ that exposed some of the anti-vaccine charlatans masquerading as purveyors of science that have infested the autism community in the last 10 years or so. Amy Wallace’s excellent piece (”An Epidemic of Fear,” issue 17.11) isn’t really even about vaccines. It’s [...]

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Disability Coalition Applauds Introduction of Legislation that Protects Students with Disabilities from Abuse

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Below is a press release from the Justice for All Action Network and the Autistic Self Advocacy Network. While the topic of seclusion and restraint is painful to write about, it is a pleasure to highlight disability advocacy like this. This is also discussed on the Education Week blog. Seclusion and restraint legislation one of [...]

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Ari Ne’eman of ASAN testifies to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Ari Ne’eman, of ASAN (the Autistic Self Advocacy Network), recently testified on ADAAA Proposed Regulations before the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The transcript is below. Testimony given to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, Town Hall Listening Session on the ADAAA Proposed Regulations, Philadelphia, PA, 10/30/09; Stuart [...]

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