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Autistic Voices | From Ethics & Autism To Disability Day Of Mourning
Sign up to be a Day of Mourning Vigil Site Coordinator 2023 Anti-Filicide Toolkit available at ASAN >> In the past five years, over 550 people with disabilities have been murdered by their parents, relatives or caregivers. On Wednesday, March 1st, the disability community will gather across the nation to remember these disabled victims of […]
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Autistic Voices | From Adult Misdiagnosis To Ban Seclusion in New Jersey Schools
ADULT MISDIAGNOSIS: THE DEFAULT PATH TO AN AUTISTIC IDENTITY By Autistic Science Person, TPGA I was lucky. This story isn’t about me. But it really could have been. I found out I was autistic before ever being misdiagnosed with anything. It’s time to ban seclusion in New Jersey schools New Jersey is considering new legislation after […]
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Autism and Childhood Vaccines Hearing Testimony: James Smythe | April 6, 2000
See testimony here >> Read full testimony here >> Mr. Smythe. Thank you very much, Congressman Burton, Congressman Waxman, and other Members of Congress, for this opportunity to speak here for my son and for the tens of thousands of autistic children around this country and the millions of people who are affected by this, […]
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Cure Autism Now | Lawmakers Approve Two Autism Centers | March 30, 1999 #AutisticHistory
Lawmakers Approve Two Autism CentersBergen Record Corp., Tuesday, March 30, 1999Bob Groves Staff Writer State lawmakers have given final approval to a plan to create two centers for treatment and research of autism — a baffling developmental disorder that affects 12,000 New Jerseyans. The New Jersey Infantile Autism Biomedical Research Act would also establish an 11-member […]
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Autism Speaks | Federal Judge Removes Key Roadblock To ABA Insurance Coverage | Aug. 13, 2014 #AutisticHistory #BanABA #EndAutismSpeaks
Federal Judge Removes Key Roadblock To ABA Insurance Coverage August 13, 2014 PORTLAND, OR (August 13, 2014) — A “developmental disability exclusion” widely used by insurers to deny claims for applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy for autism has been rejected in Oregon by a federal judge as a violation of federal and state mental health parity law. […]
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Autism Speaks | Globe: ‘Why can’t Harvard and BU employees get insurance coverage for autism therapies?’ | Dec. 22, 2012 #AutisticHistory #BanABA
Globe: ‘Why can’t Harvard and BU employees get insurance coverage for autism therapies?’ December 22, 2012 BOSTON (December 22, 2012) — Boston Globe health reporter Deborah Kotz notes how employers with self-funded health plans decline to offer ABA benefits because they are regulated under federal law, rather than ARICA. Judith Ursitti, Autism Speaks’ director of state […]
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Autism Speaks, VAP Respond to New ABA Regulations | July 18, 2013 #AutisticHistory #BanABA
Autism Speaks, VAP Respond to New ABA Regulations July 18, 2012 RICHMOND (July 18, 2012) — Autism Speaks and the Virginia Autism Project (VAP) responded today to the Virginia Board of Medicine’s emergency regulations for certifying therapists who provide Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and removing the latest roadblock to Virginia families gaining access to the autism […]
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