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Autistic & Divergent Voices (and a few allies) from around the world. A Controversial Autism Treatment Is About to Become a Very Big Business Vice By Anna Merlan Duke University and a private company have been selling access to unproven cord blood treatments for autism. Now, they're planning something much bigger. With Anne Borden King …
Boycott Spectrum 10K Nothing About Us Without Us Statement - 10th September Update from the Spectrum 10K Team (10th September 2021) An apology and an update Spectrum 10k I am writing on behalf of the Spectrum 10K research team, including the co-lead researchers, to provide a further update regarding the study. From the feedback we …
To read the full statement (with images) and sign, please click here. Joint statement from Autistic community members, academics, representatives of advocacy organisations, and allies about grave concerns regarding the Spectrum 10K study announced Tuesday 24th August 2021 BACKGROUND: On the 24th of August 2021 with a blaze of obviously well-planned publicity, the Spectrum 10k (S10K) research project …
Learning Disability Today published an article titled, “New landmark autism project raises concerns about reuse of DNA data,” on August 24, 2021. The focus was on the new research project in the UK called Spectrum 10K. The purpose is to collect DNA from 10,000 Autistic people for research purposes. The Spectrum 10K project is led …
News The Autistic Community’s Concerns Regarding Spectrum 10K and Eugenics Are Valid Thinking Person’s Guide To Autism Logo Shannon Des Roches Rosa on Tuesday, August 31, 2021 A new autism research project, Spectrum 10K, has just been launched accompanied by much media hype, celebrity endorsement, and rhetoric about neurodiversity. It is led by the University of Cambridge (principally Professor …
Person with pale-skin and light brown hair is showing the back of their purple t-shirt in white letters that says: Autism Different For Everyone Sonny Bailey started this petition to University of Cambridge and 1 other The new study 'Spectrum 10k' is being described as the largest study of autism in the UK and its aim is "to investigate …
Trigger Warning: This video includes ableism, bigotry, tragedy narrative, autistic conversion therapy/ ABA, Abuse, autism myth and propaganda, influence on legislation without Autistic representation, filicide/suicide ideation. #StopTheShock #BanABA #StopToxicCures #BanMMS #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #DisabilityRights #AutisticDignity #LegislationWithoutRepresentation https://youtu.be/ZjB1xLeD88w Autism Speaks, Autism Society of America, Bradley Whitford, Tom Insel, Bob Wright, Marguerite Colston and other Autism organizations and influencers speak at the Autism Treatment and Research …
