Tagged With "Autism Society"

Unfortunately I think this shift is more performative than meaningful. Their website still uses person-first language, talks about "treatment", uses pathologizing language, and has a number of images and text content that depicts autism through the medical model of disability. Here are a number of Facebook pages of disabled, autistic, and/or neurodivergent people who advocate and share their experiences so folks can defer to the experiences/perspectives of actually disabled and autistic...

In 1970, the Autism Society launched an ongoing nationwide effort to promote autism awareness and assure that all affected by autism are able to achieve the highest quality of life possible. In 1972, the Autism Society launched the first annual National Autistic Children’s week, which evolved into Autism Acceptance Month (AAM). This April, we continue our efforts to spread awareness, promote acceptance, and ignite change. The Autism Society of America, the nation’s oldest leading grassroots...

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released a report today showing the rate of children identified with an autism spectrum disorder rose to 1 in 54 nationally. This statistic is based on the CDC’s evaluation of health and educational records of 8-year-old children in 2016 in 11 states, including New Jersey. New Jersey again has the highest rate of those states evaluated, with 1 in 32 (3.1% of children). This percentage is higher than the average percentage identified with ASD (1.85%) in...

I use two maps of the city of Buffalo, NY to demonstrate gun violence and cancer that over lap in the same areas. By a stretch of imagination, can autism be the results of a fetus coping with the surge of stress hormones the mother is experiencing in an environment that has been normalized? Let's see how Ukraine children fare post war.

Thanks for the resources and your comment @McKinley McPheeters !