• Person First Language and Ableism – by Amy Sequenzia – https://ollibean.com/person-first-language-and-ableism/

• The Problem with Functioning Labels- by Finn Gardiner – http://www.thinkingautismguide.com/2018/03/the-problems-with-functioning-labels.html

• Start Here: a guide for parents of autistic kids by ASAN – https://autisticadvocacy.org/book/start-here/

• Welcome to the Autistic Community: Plain Language Book: https://autismacceptance.com/?sdm_process_download=1&download_id=1110 

• One Idea Per Line: A Guide to Making Easy Read Resources

• Inclusive Meetings: The Autistic Self Advocacy Network’s Community Living Summit

• Planning Accessible and Inclusive Organizing Trainings: Strategies for Decreasing Barriers to Participation for People with I/DD

• Color Communication Badges

• Holding Inclusive Events: A Guide to Accessible Event Planning

• Increasing Neurodiversity in Disability and Social Justice Advocacy Groups

• Autistic Access Needs: Notes on Accessibility

Reports and policy briefs created to benefit the Autistic and disability communities. These documents can be accessed at no cost through the links below.

• Benchmarks to Inclusion: Creating Core Principles to Facilitate Autistic Student Success in Higher Education

• “The Best Outcome We’ve Had”: Key Themes From A Self-Advocate Summit On Community Living

• Community Living Summit Resources

• ASAN’s Invitational Summit on Supported Decision Making and the Transition into the Community: Summary, Conclusions, Recommendations

• Make Real Change On Gun Violence: Stop Scapegoating People With Mental Health Disabilities

• First-Hand Perspectives on Behavioral Interventions for Autistic People and People with other Developmental Disabilities

• Our Lives, Our Health Care: Self Advocates Speaking Out

• The Affordable Care Act and the I/DD Community: An Overview of the Law and Advocacy Priorities Going Forward

• The Case for Designating People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities as a Medically Underserved Population

• Policy Analysis for the revised Autism Criteria in the DSM-5.

• Keeping the Promise: Self Advocates Defining the Meaning of Community Living

• Organ Transplantation and People with I/DD: A Review of Research, Policy and Next Steps

• The Transition to Adulthood for Youth with I/DD: A Review of Research, Policy and Next Steps*

*Easy Read Version available

• 10 Principles of Disability Justice – Sins Invalid – https://www.sinsinvalid.org/blog/10-principles-of-disability-justice 

• Social Model Animation – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s3NZaLhcc4 

• The Disability Gulag – by Harriet McBryde Johnson – https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/23/magazine/the-disability-gulag

• It’s Our Story – https://www.youtube.com/user/itsourstoryproject 

• Medical Model vs Social Model – by Kids as Self Advocates (KASA) – https://www.fvkasa.org/resources/files/history-model.pdf

• Judy Heumann Fights for People with Disabilities – Drunk History – http://www.cc.com/video-clips/2p86bg/drunk-history-judy-heumann-fights-for-people-with-disabilities

• Parallels in Time: A History of Developmental Disabilities – http://mn.gov/mnddc/parallels/

• Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement – by Steven Kapp – https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0

Who are allies? Non-autistic people who want to help autistic people. All sorts of people can be allies.  

Take the Pledge 

• Don’t Mourn for Us – by Jim Sinclair – http://www.autreat.com/dont_mourn.html 

• Checklist of Neurotypical Privilege – by Bev Harp – http://aspergersquare8.blogspot.com/2009/08/checklist-of-neurotypical-privilege-new.html 

• Autistikids – http://www.autistikids.com/ 

• In the Loop About Neurodiversity – https://intheloopaboutneurodiversity.wordpress.com/

• Learn From Autistics – https://www.learnfromautistics.com/

• Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism – http://www.thinkingautismguide.com/ 

• Think Inclusive – https://www.thinkinclusive.us/Parenting Autistic Children with Love & Acceptance – https://autloveaccept.wordpress.com/

• Parenting Autistic Children with Love & Acceptance – https://autloveaccept.wordpress.com/

• The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 – Car Autism Roadmap – https://www.carautismroadmap.org/the-americans-with-disabilities-act-of-1990-ada/

• Job Accommodation Network – https://askjan.org/ 

• Inclusive Schools Network – https://inclusiveschools.org/ 

• Wrightslaw Special Education Law and Advocacy – https://www.wrightslaw.com/

• Olmstead Self-Assessment – https://www.olmsteadrights.org/self-helptools/assessment/ 

• How to Make a Supported Decision-Making Agreement – ACLU – https://www.aclu.org/other/how-make-supported-decision-making-agreement 

• National Disability Rights Network – https://www.ndrn.org/about/ndrn-member-agencies/ 

• Information on the ADA – https://www.ada.gov/

• International Disability Alliance – http://www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org/

• International Disability Rights – Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund – https://dredf.org/legal-advocacy/international-disability-rights/

•  Everyone Communicates – the AAC Resource – http://www.everyonecommunicates.org/

• In My Language – by Mel Baggs – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnylM1hI2jc

• Why We Should Stop Stim Suppression  – by Cassandra Crosman – https://intheloopaboutneurodiversity.wordpress.com/2019/09/17/why-we-should-stop-stim-suppression/