Ari Ne’eman of the Autsitic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) participated in a call-in show, Washington Journal, on C-Span today. Here is that video.
http://www.c-span.org/Events/Washington-Journal-for-Saturday-December-1/10737436230/
As of now, this seem to work only on “desktop/laptop” computers, not mobile devices. Also, I can not get the video to embed in this article.
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By Matt Carey
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Thank you for providing this! And I will be sharing it everywhere I can. The more exposure this gets, the better. Ari Rocks!