Supporting United States Ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Why Every Voice Counts!
CALLING ALL SENATORS .It’s time for the U.S. To
CALLING ALL SENATORS .It’s time for the U.S. To
Kari Wagner-Peck ,the author of A Typical Son blog, and
My family saw. I had hopeful times . Tracy invited
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.
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.
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.
"Learning is easy when the teacher knows you can learn. " Henry Frost
Comments from Autistic Self-Advocacy Network President Ari Ne’eman, delivered on
Twenty-two years after passage of the landmark Americans with Disabilities
"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
Educators should use the appropriate equipment properly to ensure that
It isn't right that autistics are in the position of
I do not know if you have ever thought of
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.
The ASL-STEM (Enabling American Sign Language to grow in
Here are some suggestions on how to tune out the
Dr. Caroline Musselwhite addresses the topic of overall good literacy
I wrote about Presumption of Competence before, and how it is important for all of us. This time I write about how it feels and how my life changed because I was assumed to be competent.
White House Champion of Change recipient Mia Mingus is writer,
But now and then I meet someone who has. They
Some people consider it so abhorrent to entertain the possibility
"Not only were students talking about how much having the
My name is Christian Ranieri and I am a 9th
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network’s third annual gala and celebration
If you care, you act. Do something positive to help a young person with emotional challenges.
We believe deaf or hard-of-hearing children are entitled to full
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.
Amazing resource we love- Autistic Aloha!
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.
We have reached the tipping point where it is no longer educationally or morally defensible to continue to segregate students with disabilities. We shouldn’t be striving to educate children in the least restrictive environment but rather in the most inclusive one.
My advice for younger autistics and for those who love and support them would be to look at who you ARE as a human being.
"First, we must ensure that all children, including and especially those with disabilities, receive a quality education. Inclusion means nothing if a child is not receiving a good education, which is, in fact, the very reason we have schools in the first place. " Cara Liebowitz