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The Importance of Supports

The Importance of Supports

2016-11-10T10:11:40-05:00By Ollibean|Categories: Accommodations, Advocacy, Advocacy In Action, Autism, blog, Cross Disability, Disability Rights, Disability Rights Leaders, Ollibean Thought Leaders, Politics, Think Tank, Videos|Tags: all disabilities, Ari Ne'eman, ASAN, autism, autism acceptance, Autism Spectrum Disorders, autistic, cross disability, Disability, House, National Council on Disability, The Autistic Self Advocacy Network, U.S. House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform|

"If we invested a mere one-tenth of the amount of money that we currently pour into causation into empowering Autistic people to communicate, that young man and hundreds of thousands more like him would be able to communicate their needs to us today. I am not here today to speak for every Autistic person – that’s impossible. What I am here for is to argue for every Autistic person to have the same opportunity to communicate that I have come to enjoy thanks to the support that I have been lucky enough to receive in my life." Ari Ne'eman

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Meet the Members of the 2013 National Council on Disability

Meet the Members of the 2013 National Council on Disability

2016-11-10T10:11:40-05:00By Ollibean|Categories: Accessibility, Advocacy, Articles, blog, Cross Disability, Disability Rights, Disability Rights Leaders, General, Inclusion, Ollibean Thought Leaders, Politics, Resources We Love, Video|Tags: Accessibility, all disabilities, Ari Ne'eman, Autism Spectrum Disorders, cross disability, inclusion, Independent Living, Kamilah Martin-Proctor, Lawrence Carter-Long, National Council on Disability, NCD, Rebekah Cokely|

The National Council on Disability works to further equal opportunity, self-sufficiency, independent living, inclusion and full integration of people with disabilities into the civic, social, and economic fabric of American life.

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Supporting United States Ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Why Every Voice Counts!

2016-11-10T10:11:41-05:00By Emily Ladau|Categories: Advocacy, Advocacy, Advocacy In Action, Author, blog, Disability Rights, Emily Ladau, Featured (Homepage), General, Politics, Search Categories, Think Tank|Tags: advocacy, all disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, cerebral palsy, Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities, cross disability, CRPD, Emily Ladau, inclusion, resources|

CALLING ALL SENATORS .It’s time for the U.S. To

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A Typical Son’s mom on “the r-word” and Chuck Klosterman’s apology

2016-11-10T10:11:41-05:00By Ollibean|Categories: Ableism, Advocacy, Advocacy, Advocacy In Action, Articles, Cross Disability, Developmental Disabilities, General, Lifestyle, Ollibean Family|Tags: A Typical Son, ableism, all disabilities, Chuck Klosterman, cross disabilities, cross=disability, down syndrome, Kari Wagner-Peck, The Ethicist, the r word|

Kari Wagner-Peck ,the author of A Typical Son blog, and

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All the people saw my intelligence. No test first.

All the people saw my intelligence. No test first.

2016-11-10T10:11:41-05:00By Henry Frost|Categories: Advocacy, Author, blog, Disability Rights, Featured (Homepage), General, Henry, Henry Frost, Inclusive Education, Search Categories, Videos|Tags: 2013 Award, all disabilities, ASAN, ASANGALA2013, autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, autistic, Autistic Self Advocacy Network, cross disability, developmental disabilities, Disability, Gerry Wurzburg, Henry Frost, ICI, ISTANDWITHHENRY, National Center on Inclusive Education, NCIE, Self Advocacy Movement, self-advocacy, ThisIsAutism, Tracy Thresher, typing, UNH, UNH/IOD, Wretches & Jabberers, wretches and jabberers|

My family saw. I had hopeful times . Tracy invited

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This Is Autism by Amy Sequenzia

2016-11-10T10:11:41-05:00By Amy Sequenzia|Categories: Advocacy, Amy Sequenzia, Author, Autism, blog, General, Inclusive Education, Neurodiversity, Politics, Search Categories|Tags: A$, ableism, all disabilities, Amy Sequenzia, autism, Autism Speaks, Autism Speaks Time to Listen, Autism Spectrum Disorders, cross disability, cross-diability, flashblog, Listen Up, Suzanne Wright, This Is Autism, This Is Autism Flashblog|

Today we are flashblogging to counter Autism Speaks’ wrong view of autism. We are showing what autism really is. We speak for ourselves, even if Autism Speaks refuses to listen. The rest of the world will.

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This Is Autism by Henry Frost

This Is Autism by Henry Frost

2016-11-10T10:11:41-05:00By Henry Frost|Categories: AAC, Advocacy, Advocacy, Author, Autism, blog, Disability Rights, General, Henry, Henry Frost, Inclusive Education, Ollibean Brothers & Sisters, Ollibean Family, Think Tank|Tags: ableism, advocacy, all disabilities, autism, Autism Speaks, Autism Spectrum Disorders, cross disability, cross disablity, Henry Frost, ISTANDWITHHENRY, self-advocacy, This Is Autism, This Is Autism Flashblog|

Best place for all autistic people, all disabled not disabled people, all families to speak together. Speak together for acceptance, inclusion, communication, and rights for all people. I am thinking when you look closely, this is what autism is.

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You are not wrong.

2016-11-10T10:11:41-05:00By Henry Frost|Categories: Ableism, Advocacy, Advocacy In Action, Author, Autism, blog, Cross Disability, Disability Rights, General, Henry Frost, Inclusion, Neurodiversity, Ollibean Family|Tags: all disabilities, autism, autism acceptance, Autism Speaks, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Autsim Speaks, cross disability, Henry Frost, ISTANDWITHHENRY|

Know you are not a burden or trouble for being. You are a person who has every right to be. A family that is saying love but saying you are so hard so wrong for not being as they wanted. The family is wrong. Not You. A school segregating is wrong. Not You.There are many if the disability community that are here for you.

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Inclusion, Communication and Civil Rights

2016-11-10T10:11:41-05:00By Henry Frost|Categories: AAC, Accommodations, Advocacy, Advocacy, Author, Autism, blog, Cross Disability, Disability Rights, General, Henry, Henry Frost, Inclusion, Inclusion Videos, Inclusive Education, Inclusive Education, Neurodiversity, Videos|Tags: 8th Largest School District, activism, activist, all disabilities, Ari Ne'eman, ASAN, autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, civil rights, cross disability, Disability, disability rights, Disability Rights Movement, Emily Titon, Henry Frost, Hillsborough County, human rights, inclusion, inclusive education, IStandw, ISTANDWITHHENRY, Larry Bissonette, Lydia Brown, National Center on Inclusive Education's Summer Institute, NCIE, Tampa, The Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Tracy Thresher, Wretches & Jabberers, youth leaders|

"Learning is easy when the teacher knows you can learn. " Henry Frost

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ASAN President Ari Ne’eman on the DOE’s New Stance on Bullying Prevention

2016-11-10T10:11:41-05:00By Ollibean|Categories: Abuse and Bullying, Advocacy, Advocacy In Action, Autism, blog, Cross Disability, Disability Rights, Ollibean Thought Leaders, Politics|Tags: Ari Ne'eman, ASAN, autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, bullying, Bullying Prevention, cross disability, Department of Education, DOE, inclusion, The Autistic Self Advocacy Network|

Comments from Autistic Self-Advocacy Network President Ari Ne’eman, delivered on

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Jobless rate for disabled Americans still high 22 years after landmark law

2016-11-10T10:11:41-05:00By Ollibean|Categories: Advocacy, Articles, Disability Rights, Featured (Homepage), General, Politics|Tags: AAPD, all disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, cross disability, Disability, employment|

Twenty-two years after passage of the landmark Americans with Disabilities

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I Am Disabled and I Am Proud

2016-11-10T10:11:41-05:00By Ollibean|Categories: Advocacy, Advocacy In Action, Articles, blog, Cerebral Palsy, Cross Disability, Disability Rights, Disability Rights Leaders, Editor's Picks, General, Inclusion, Inclusion Videos, Lifestyle, Media Representation, Ollibean Thought Leaders, Think Tank, Video, Videos|Tags: #saytheword, all disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, cerebral palsy, cross disability, disability as diversity, disability in media, disability pride, disabled, inclusion, Lawrence Carter-Long, media representation, National Council on Disability, Thought Leader|

‎"Polite society often tells us that we need to take the 'dis' out of disability, but maybe... just maybe, we should spend some time putting it back in. Take the "dis" out of disability and you remove the core of what has shaped my life. Disability puts the "D" in diversity, but in order to make that a real difference we've got to own that spot. It took me 35 years to respect and honor that truth. Others shouldn't have to wait that long..." Lawrence Carter-Long

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Words for Autistics Speaking Day By Judy Endow

2016-11-10T10:11:41-05:00By Judy Endow|Categories: Advocacy, Advocacy, Author, blog, General, Judy Endow|Tags: all disabilities, autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Autistic's Speaking Day, cross disability, Judy Endow|

It isn't right that autistics are in the position of

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I ALREADY AM A HUMAN BEING

2016-11-10T10:11:41-05:00By Judy Endow|Categories: Ableism, Advocacy, Author, blog, General, Judy Endow|Tags: ableism, all disabilities, autism, autistic, cross disability, human rights, Judy Endow, Neurodiversity|

I do not know if you have ever thought of

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Autistics Speaking Day – My Fingers Speak

2016-11-10T10:11:41-05:00By Amy Sequenzia|Categories: AAC, Advocacy, Amy Sequenzia, Author, Autism, blog, General|Tags: AAC, advocacy, all disabilities, Amy Sequenzia, autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, autistic, autistic activist, Autistics Speaking Day 2013, cross disability, My Fingers Speak, typing|

Today is Autistics Speaking Day, a day to remind the world that we actually speak every day, even if we do it with our fingers.

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How to Ignore the Media and Learn to Love Autism

2016-11-10T10:11:42-05:00By Ollibean|Categories: Advocacy, Articles, Autism Resources, Disability Rights, Featured (Homepage), Neurodiversity, Ollibean Family, Parenting|Tags: all disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, cross disability, Neurodiversity, Rethinking Autism, RETHINKINGAUTISM|

Here are some suggestions on how to tune out the

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Wanting More and Finding Disability Justice

2016-11-10T10:11:42-05:00By Ollibean|Categories: Advocacy, Advocacy In Action, Cross Disability, Disability Rights, Disability Rights Leaders, Ollibean Thought Leaders, Politics, Think Tank|Tags: all disabilities, Champion of Change, cross disability, Mia Mingus, Wanting More and Finding Disability Justice|

White House Champion of Change recipient Mia Mingus is writer,

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From “Severe and Low Functioning” to “Kind of a Big Deal”

2016-11-10T10:11:42-05:00By Judy Endow|Categories: Advocacy, Advocacy, Author, blog, Disability Rights, General, Judy Endow, Parenting|Tags: ableism, all disabilities, autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, autistic activists, autistic children, Baby Sex Checks, civil rights, consent, cross disability, Emily Willingham, human rights, Judy Endow, low-functioning, Paula C. Durbin-Westby, sperm selection|

Some people consider it so abhorrent to entertain the possibility

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14 Year Old Advocates for His Civil Rights

2016-11-10T10:11:42-05:00By Ollibean|Categories: Advocacy, blog, Disability Rights, Featured (Homepage), General|Tags: all disability, autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Christian Ranieri, cross disability, IEP, self-advocate|

My name is Christian Ranieri and I am a 9th

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The Autistic Self Advocacy Network’s Third Annual Gala Honoring Henry Frost and Dr. Anne Donnellan

2016-11-10T10:11:42-05:00By Ollibean|Categories: Advocacy, Advocacy, blog, Cross Disability, Events, Henry Frost, Inclusion|Tags: Dr. Anne Donnellann, Henry Frost, I STAND WITH HENRY, presume competence, The Autistic Self Advocacy Network, The Autistic Self Advocacy Network’s Third Annual Gala, The Least Dangerous assumption|

The Autistic Self Advocacy Network’s third annual gala and celebration

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Open Letter To Jon Stewart

2016-11-10T10:11:42-05:00By Amy Sequenzia|Categories: Advocacy, Amy Sequenzia, Author, blog, Featured (Homepage), General, Search Categories, Think Tank|Tags: all disabilities, Amy Sequenzia, autisitic culture, autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, cross disability, John Stewart, Neurodiversity|

When I met Jon Stewart I was very disappointed by his lack of knowledge and sensitivity toward autism. During a recent interview, while still a bit condescending, his views seem to have evolved. This is my open letter to him.

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Autistic Aloha

2016-11-10T10:11:42-05:00By Ollibean|Categories: Advocacy, Autism Resources, Disability Rights, General, Ollibean Family, Parenting, Resources, Resources We Love|Tags: activism, advocacy, all disabilities, autism, autism resource, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Autistic Aloha, cross disability, Neurodiversity, Steve Summers|

Amazing resource we love- Autistic Aloha!

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Don’t Mix Up Empathy and Civil Rights

2016-11-10T10:11:42-05:00By Judy Endow|Categories: Advocacy, Advocacy, Author, blog, Disability Rights, General, Judy Endow, Parenting|Tags: ableism, all disabilities, autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, autistic activists, autistic children, civil rights, consent, cross disability, human rights, Judy Endow, Kade Hanegraaf, silencing|

Many times in the autism community parents of autistic children do not like autistic adults weighing in on situations that have to do with their autistic children. I am an autistic adult and often have parents telling me that I should not judge situations if I have not lived it – the “until-you-walk-a-mile-in-their-shoes” is told to me nearly every week as I post the latest news articles along with my comments on social media.

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How Will the Affordable Care Act Affect People With Disabilities?

2016-11-10T10:11:43-05:00By Ollibean|Categories: Advocacy, Advocacy, Articles, Featured (Homepage), Politics|Tags: : Affordable Care Act, ACA, all disabilities, Ari Ne'eman, ASAN, autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Autistic Self Advocacy Network, cross disability, developmental disabilities, down syndrome, IDD, Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, TPGA|

The Thinking Person's Guide To Autism interviews Ari Ne'eman of The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network about specific advantages, opportunities, and sticking points of the Affordable Care Act for People with Disabilities

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Disability Activist Keith Jones on Community

Disability Activist Keith Jones on Community

2016-11-10T10:11:43-05:00By Ollibean|Categories: Advocacy, Advocacy In Action, blog, Cerebral Palsy, Cross Disability, Disability Rights Leaders, General, Henry Recommends, Inclusion, Inclusion Videos, Ollibean Thought Leaders, Think Tank, Video, Videos|Tags: activist, Activists, advocacy, all disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, cerebral palsy, cross disability, Keith Jones, resources, SoulTouchin' Experiences, SoulTouchin' Experiencesl|

"So let us remember that when we teach, when we educate, we make policy, we make decisions that we do it with a conscience and that we remember that we are leaving fingerprints on forever." Keith Jones

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Judith Heumann: Changing the System

2016-11-10T10:11:43-05:00By Ollibean|Categories: Advocacy, Advocacy In Action, Articles, blog, Disability Rights, Disability Rights Leaders, Editor's Picks, Henry Recommends, Inclusion, Ollibean Thought Leaders, Think Tank|Tags: Accessibility, all disabilities, cross disability, disability rights leader, Disability Rights Movement, inclusion, Judith Heumann|

Her activism is clearly rooted in a strong sense of

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11 Year Old Jacob On The Right Thing To DO

2016-11-10T10:11:43-05:00By Jacob Bradley|Categories: AAC, Advocacy, Advocacy, Autism, blog, Cross Disability, General, Henry Recommends, Inclusion, Neurodiversity|Tags: AAC, autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, autistic, cross disability, inclusion, Jacob, Jacob Bradley, presume competence, segregation, self-advocate, supported typing, total communication|

I said a long time ago that I would not only be an real student In a school that supports me but also a self advocate for those lost in segregated settings echoing the dreaded lives of people in the world that are like me without the right supports.

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I am a person.

I am a person.

2016-11-10T10:11:43-05:00By Henry Frost|Categories: AAC, Advocacy, Author, Autism, blog, Communication, Cross Disability, General, Henry, Henry Frost, Inclusion|Tags: all disabilities, autism, civil rights, cross disability, disability rights, Henry Frost, ISTANDWITHHENRY|

Ask me. Don't prompt me. Talk to me. Don't prompt

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Issy Stapleton: Emergency Information and Autistic Community Response

2016-11-10T10:11:43-05:00By Ollibean|Categories: Advocacy, Advocacy, Advocacy Resources, Autism, Autism Resources, General, Parenting, Resources, Resources We Love|Tags: abuse, abuse. emergency, all disabilities, autism, autism acceptance, autism resource, autism spectrum, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Autistic Community, cross disability, cross-dissability, disability resource, domestic abuse, Emergency Information, Issy Stapleton, Issy Stapleton: Emergency Information and Autistic Community Response, Paula C. Durbin-Westby, victim, violence|

Emergency information is on here, followed by commentary. Emergency information

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Dear Issy

2016-11-10T10:11:43-05:00By Amy Sequenzia|Categories: Advocacy, Advocacy, Amy Sequenzia, Author, Autism, blog, General|Tags: ableism, advocacy, all disabilities, Amy Sequenzia, attempted murder, autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Autistic Adults, Autistic Community, community, cross disability, Issy, Issy Stapleton, Kelli Stapleton, LOve, support, The Status Woe, You Are Not Alone|

You don't know me but I have seen your pictures.

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Again, We Mourn

2016-11-10T10:11:43-05:00By Amy Sequenzia|Categories: Ableism, Advocacy, Advocacy, Amy Sequenzia, Author, Autism, blog, General|Tags: ableism, advocacy, Alex Spourdalakis, all disabilities, Amy Sequenzia, attempted murder, autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, criss-disability, developmental disabilities, hate crime, Issy Stapleton, Kelli Stapleton, Michigan, The Status Woe|

My soul hurts and I am naming names. And I am saying, if you have a drop of sympathy for the murderers, or almost murderers, you have blood on your hands too.

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Judith Snow

2016-11-10T10:11:44-05:00By Ollibean|Categories: Advocacy, Advocacy In Action, blog, Cross Disability, Disability Rights, Disability Rights Leaders, Editor's Picks, General, Inclusion, Inclusion Videos, Inclusive Education, Lifestyle, Ollibean Thought Leaders, Resources, Resources We Love, Videos|Tags: all disabilities, cross disability, disability rights leader, family support, inclusion, inclusion resource, inclusive education, Judith Snow, Judith Snow Foundation, person centered planning, personal assistance, resource, resources, SMA, spinal muscular atrophy, support circle building|

Judith Snow, MA is a social innovator and an advocate for Inclusion – communities that welcome the participation of a wide diversity of people. Inclusion is an opportunity for EVERYONE!

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