ASAN Dallas Chapter Website
04 May 2010, 12:39 pm
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network has opened a new chapter in Dallas, Texas:
http://www.asandallas.info/
Quoting from their website:
The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network is a non-profit organization run by and for Autistic people. ASAN's supporters include Autistic adults and youth, cross-disability advocates, and non-autistic family members, professionals, educators and friends. ASAN was created to provide support and services to individuals on the autism spectrum while working to change public perception and combat misinformation by educating communities about persons on the autism spectrum. Our activities include public policy advocacy, community engagement to encourage inclusion and respect for neurodiversity, quality of life oriented research and the development of Autistic cultural activities and other opportunities for Autistic people to engage with others on the spectrum.
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ASAN Dallas was started to bring together those within the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex. We are building a community to help introduce the concept of Neurodiversity and help Autistic adults learn to advocate in their homes, at schools, at work or in the community. In the future, we will go forward to advocating within the state to help all Autistic people.
Our philosophy is simple. Acceptance, Accommodation, and Accessibility is our mantra. Accessibility to treatments, health care, transportation or even living out of institutions should be a standard. Instead, many Autistics never have those standards of living. Accommodations in school, home or work are essential to independence and meaningfully contributing to our communities. Acceptance should be the simplest of all but rarely happens. Educating our communities to understand our differences and our difficulties is key to being accepted. We will work tirelessly to pursue these principles.
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AUsome Conference -- Autistic-run conference in Ireland
https://konfidentkidz.ie/seo/autism-tra ... onference/
AUTSCAPE -- Autistic-run conference and retreat in the UK
http://www.autscape.org/
05 May 2010, 6:32 am
http://www.asandallas.info/
Quoting from their website:
The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network is a non-profit organization run by and for Autistic people. ASAN's supporters include Autistic adults and youth, cross-disability advocates, and non-autistic family members, professionals, educators and friends. ASAN was created to provide support and services to individuals on the autism spectrum while working to change public perception and combat misinformation by educating communities about persons on the autism spectrum. Our activities include public policy advocacy, community engagement to encourage inclusion and respect for neurodiversity, quality of life oriented research and the development of Autistic cultural activities and other opportunities for Autistic people to engage with others on the spectrum.
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ASAN Dallas was started to bring together those within the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex. We are building a community to help introduce the concept of Neurodiversity and help Autistic adults learn to advocate in their homes, at schools, at work or in the community. In the future, we will go forward to advocating within the state to help all Autistic people.
Our philosophy is simple. Acceptance, Accommodation, and Accessibility is our mantra. Accessibility to treatments, health care, transportation or even living out of institutions should be a standard. Instead, many Autistics never have those standards of living. Accommodations in school, home or work are essential to independence and meaningfully contributing to our communities. Acceptance should be the simplest of all but rarely happens. Educating our communities to understand our differences and our difficulties is key to being accepted. We will work tirelessly to pursue these principles.
If I happen to be in the Chattanooga, TN area still in a couple of years and ASAN Dallas is going strong, I'd like to consider talking with you guys to see if something could be established in Chattanooga (e.g. ASAN Chattanooga). There's absolutely nothing down here for autism/AS stuff. Nothing. I have had to learn everything on my own, without any support base here in the city to lean upon and such. I don't have the time right now to head or direct something of this magnitude. Sounds like something that I could see myself doing down the road.
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Scott
"The Jazz of Life - the only way to live life"
Dx'd with AS and AD/HD Combined in 2007
Interests: Music, great outdoors (beach/mountains), cooking/baking, philosophy, arts/sciences, reading, writing, sports, spirituality, Green, sus
