Upcoming Autism Policy Presidential Transition Meeting

[Guest guest]

Hello everyone,

Thank you to all of those who have shared your thoughts about priorities for

the upcoming Presidential Transition. We recently joined a number of

disability organizations in meeting with the Office of the President-elect

to discuss health care policy and intend to continue to communicate with the

transition team about the importance of ensuring that autistic people across

the lifespan are free from discrimination in regards to health insurance and

have access to the right kinds of things to promote positive health and

quality of life outcomes. We will be meeting with members of the transition

team again next week to discuss autism policy in specific and I want to

encourage you to e-mail us if you haven't already with your priorities for

autism policy in the new administration. I can be reached at

aneeman@... and thank you once again to all of those who

have already shared your thoughts. Your stories and letters are very helpful

to us in showing policymakers the many individual voices clamoring for

change in the way that our society approaches the autism spectrum and those

of us on it.

Regards,

Ari Ne'eman

President

The Autistic Self Advocacy Network

1660 L Street, NW, Suite 700

Washington, DC 20036

http://www.autisticadvocacy.org