Senate HELP Committee to discuss Combating Autism Reauthorization Act September 7

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• It is time to renew the Autism CARES Act

  The Autism CARES Act (Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education, and Support Act of 2019) has been introduced in the House of Representatives and the Senate. The existing Autism CARES Act will expire this year, so a new bill is needed to continue the work. Autism CARES is good for the autism communities. Autism CARES continues […]

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• Age of Autism financial documents, are they taking in less money?

  A few years back the Age of Autism converted from a business to a nonprofit. That means we get some information on their financial status. As a nonprofit, their tax forms become public. Nonprofits file IRS form 990’s and those are hosted by various providers online. The most recent informaiton we can get is for […]

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• Trump is only the latest charlatan to use the anti-vaccine community

  When Donald Trump was running for president (has he ever stopped running for president and started governing?) the anti-vaccine community threw full support behind him. They were excited because here was a candidate who publicly accepted and promoted the fake and damaging idea that vaccines cause autism. Before running, Trump supported the idea that vaccines […]

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• Why I don’t like “Happy Mother’s Day: Mothers Lie”

  The essay is structured as “you were pregnant. You had hopes and dreams. Then you got a shock–your kid wasn’t what you hoped for.” Why do we keep telling parents that story? The only reason there is a shock is because we don’t remind parents that disability is real. And that the dream lives on–having […]

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• An autism parent’s gratitude to the Kennedys for speaking out

  Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Joseph P. Kennedy II, Meave Kennedy McKean: thank you. We in the disability community owe much to the Kennedy family. We don’t forget the gains in special education and other areas that the Kennedy family championed for us. With that in mind, it’s been especially hard to watch Robert Kennedy Jr. spread […]

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