ASAN in the News - Archive
Published by Admin on 2009/1/3 (3680 reads)
- An article in Salon.com describes the prominent role of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network in advancing the Autistic culture and seeking to improve quality of life and ensure full access in society.
- The Autistic Self Advocacy Network was mentioned in stories about the proposed closing of 5 state institutions in New Jersey that ran in The Press of Atlantic City and The Vineland Journal.
- ASAN Vice President Scott Michael Robertson was among several autistic adults featured in Second Look: Adults With Autism: Autism Affects Every Person Differently, a 17-minute video produced by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare's Bureau of Autism Services. The video can be obtained for free from the Bureau of Autism Services by sending an email to DPW-AutismOffice@state.pa.us with your shipping address and the DVD title. It will also soon be available to watch online as a streaming video.
- The filming of a national public service announcement about autism that is being jointly produced by the Dan Marino Foundation and the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network was highlighted in stories that appeared on WTVF-TV, the CBS affiliate in Nashville, Tennessee, on Tennessean.com, and in the Nashville newspaper The Tennessean.
- ASAN President Ari Ne'eman delivered a keynote titled "Representations of Disability: Fighting the War of Ideas in the Disability Rights Movement" at TASH's National Conference 2008 in Nashville, Tennessee.
- ASAN Vice President Scott Robertson and President Ari Ne'eman authored an article titled "Autistic Acceptance, the College Campus, and Technology: Growth of Neurodiversity in Society and Academia" for Disability Studies Quarterly, a scholarly journal. Click here to read the article.
- ASAN President Ari Ne'eman and allies Estee Klar-Wolfond and Michael Moon of The Autism Acceptance Project appeared in the CBC-TV News documentary Positively Autistic on Oct. 27. Click here to watch the video of the documentary and click here to read the text transcripts of documentary interviews.
- ASAN President Ari Ne'eman co-authored a scholarly article with Columbia University Professor Alicia A. Broderick titled "Autism as metaphor: narrative and counter-narrative," which was published in a special issue of The International Journal of Inclusive Education (Volume 12, Issue 5/6) devoted to Disability Studies in Education.
- ASAN Activist Katie Miller won the prestigous Wynn Newhouse Award, an award granted by the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation to highly accomplished fine artists with disabilities. Miller's winning portfolio consisted of a selection of her artwork and an essay about her life as an autistic artist with other disabilities.
- ASAN Vice President Scott Michael Robertson was among several autistic adults featured in Second Look: Adults With Autism: Autism Affects Every Person Differently, a 17-minute video produced by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare's Bureau of Autism Services. The video can be obtained for free from the Bureau of Autism Services by sending an email to DPW-AutismOffice@state.pa.us with your shipping address and the DVD title. It will also soon be available to watch online as a streaming video.
- The filming of a national public service announcement about autism that is being jointly produced by the Dan Marino Foundation and the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network was highlighted in stories that appeared on WTVF-TV, the CBS affiliate in Nashville, Tennessee and on Tennessean.com, the website of the Nashville newspaper The Tennessean.
- ASAN President Ari Ne'eman delivered a keynote titled "Representations of Disability: Fighting the War of Ideas in the Disability Rights Movement" at TASH's National Conference 2008 in Nashville, Tennessee.
- ASAN Board Member Paula Durbin-Westby delivered the talk "Autism, Literature, and Popular Culture: The Curious Coincidence of Autism Metaphors Across Diverse Genres" to the Honors Program at Ashland University in Ohio. Click here to watch the talk.
- ASAN Vice President Scott Robertson and President Ari Ne'eman authored an article titled "Autistic Acceptance, the College Campus, and Technology: Growth of Neurodiversity in Society and Academia" for Disability Studies Quarterly, a scholarly journal. Click here to read the article.
- ASAN President Ari Ne'eman and allies Estee Klar-Wolfond and Michael Moon of The Autism Acceptance Project appeared in the CBC-TV News documentary Positively Autistic on Oct. 27. Click here to watch the video of the documentary and click here to read the text transcripts of documentary interviews.
- ASAN Allied Blogger Kristina Chew was interviewed for a segment on autism and vaccines titled "Doctor Challenges Autism, Vaccine Link" that appeared on the NBC-TV show Today on Oct. 30, 2008. Click here to read about the segment and watch video of it.
- ASAN President Ari Ne'eman and Vice President Scott Michael Robertson presented plenary sessions at the first annual conference of Autism: Beyond the Diagnosis at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, KS.
- ASAN Activist Marc Rosen wrote a letter to the editor in Newsday, a NYC newspaper, about the campaign against the offensive PETA Billboard in Newark, NJ. The billboard was subsequently removed as a result of ASAN and allied activism.
- Allied Blogger Kristina Chew, who hosts the blog autismvox.com, appeared in a Newsweek magazine story, Spotlight on Autism".
- ASAN President Ari Ne'eman appeared in a Salon.com article about the use of demeaning language in the movie Tropic Thunder on Sept. 18. Click here to read the article.
- ASAN President Ari Ne'eman appeared in the story In Advocacy Realm, Specific Disabilities Gain in Prominence in the Sept. 17 Issue of Education Week magazine. Click here to read the article.
- ASAN Vice President Scott Robertson appeared on Remarkably Able, a radio show on Phoenix, AZ station KFNX-AM, on Sept. 15. The weekly show is hosted by advocate Dr. Jackie Marquette.
- ASAN Vice President Scott Robertson interviewed for article, Autism into Adulthood: Making the Transition, which appeared in Social Work Today magazine's September/October issue. Click here to read the article.
- ASAN Member Cody Boisclair's article, An Autistic Speaks, published in Stand Up magazine in Georgia on Aug. 30. Click here to read the article.
- ASAN Board Member Dora Raymaker mentioned in Oregon Public Broadcasting news report on services for autistic people on Aug. 20. Click here to read the report.
- ASAN President Ari Ne'eman and Vice President Scott Robertson appeared on the "Meet the Peetes" show on the Oprah & Friends channel (XM-156) on XM Satellite Radio on Aug. 4 to discuss public ignorance about autism prior to Scott's presentation of a research seminar on college transition for autistic students at the National Autism Conference at Penn State.
- The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network was highlighted in a West Virginia Herald Dispatch newspaper story titled Aspergians Can Be Great Employees that ran July 29, 2008.
- ASAN-Australia Member Geraldine Robertson was interviewed by ABC-TV (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) for a show on autistic adults that ran on the program Stateline-Tasmania on July 18. Click here to read the transcript.
- ASAN President Ari Ne'eman commented on early diagnosis and education in a Wall Street Journal article from July 8.
- ASAN President Ari Ne'eman and Vice President Scott Robertson appeared on the "Meet the Peetes" show on the Oprah & Friends channel (XM-156) on XM Satellite Radio on June 11, 2008 to discuss neurodiversity, the autistic self-advocacy community, the autistic rights movement, and major challenges facing the autistic adult community.
- ASAN President Ari Ne'eman and allied blogger Kristina Chew (of autismvox.com) appeared on ABC-TV's Good Morning America on June 10, 2008 to discuss the autistic rights movement and neurodiversity for the segment "Autistic and Proud". Click here to watch the segment and read the accompanying article.
- ASAN and the autistic rights movement highlighted in the Philanthropy Journal's News Roundup for June 4, 2008
- ASAN President Ari Ne'eman appeared on the National Public Radio (NPR) Show The Bryant Park Project to discuss the Autistics Rights Movement and the autistic self-advocacy community. Click here to listen.
- ASAN President Ari Ne'eman profiled in New York Magazine story, "The Autism Rights Movement"
- ASAN-Australia Co-Director Katharine Annear profiled in a story in the Australian newspaper The Messenger
- ASAN-Australia Member Geraldine Robertson was interviewed by autistic activist Donna Williams for the story "Unheard of? Think again. Interview with autistic teacher--Geraldine Robertson" that ran in the online magazine American Chronicle on May 13, 2008.
- ASAN President Ari Ne'eman commented in a story on autism and early intervention that ran in New Scientist Magazine.
- ASAN Vice President Scott Robertson presented the keynote at the 3rd Annual Penn Autism Network Conference at the University of Pennsylvania
- ASAN President Ari Ne'eman quoted in Newsweek story on the autism spectrum
- ASAN President Ari Ne'eman quoted in The Washington Post and The NY Daily News discussing the success of the disability community's response to the "Ransom Notes" ad campaign.
(The Wall Street Journal Online and The New York Times also carried stories of the ad removal.) Ari appeared on NYC radio station WBAI's "The Largest Minority" on Dec. 20, 2007 to discuss the "Ransom Note" ads. Click here to listen to the show archive. - ASAN President Ari Ne'eman interviewed by NYC TV station CW-11 about organized response to "Ransom Notes" campaign on Dec. 14, 2007.
- ASAN's response to "Ransom Notes" campaign mentioned in The New York Times, in The NY Daily News, and on The Wall Street Journal Online.
- ASAN President Ari Ne'eman presented testimony to the Inter-Agency Autism Coordinating Committee on Nov. 30, 2007.
- ASAN Vice President Scott Robertson presented opening keynote at 10th Annual Penn State National Autism Conference on July 30, 2007. Click here to watch the video webcast.
- ASAN members Scott Robertson & Ari Ne'eman presented at Autreat 2007
- ASAN lobbied for autistic representation in NJ and commented on NJ's autism legislative initiatives in Star Ledger and Asbury Park Press.
