Ahead of World Autism Awareness Day, the United Nations today called for recognizing the rights of people with the spectrum neurological condition, which is believed to affect 70 million people ...

Language trends change quickly at the hands of social media users. They explode into our screens, rather than slowly evolve. This can change the ways we talk about diagnoses such as autism and ...

Outside of this, though, language can change meaning. The neurodiversity movement came from the autism rights movement, and for many, the term neurodivergent is associated with autism. The concept ...

But what is “neurodiversity?” Neurodiversity is both a philosophy and an emerging civil rights movement. Neurodiversity Scholar in Residence John Elder Robison has written this defining neurodiversity ...

Campaigners are calling for a new commissioner to champion the rights of people with autism and learning disabilities. The three charities behind the campaign say families are exhausted from ...

Resources related to self-advocacy, navigating the social world and getting ready for employment. The Autistic Self Advocacy Network seeks to advance the principles of the disability rights movement ...