Tag: autism spectrum
Advocacy Television

How a ‘Sesame Street’ Muppet became embroiled in a controversy over autism

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Autistic self-advocates are changing discussions that, they say, have historically been “about us, without us.” (Published September 19, 2019) An autistic “Sesame Street” muppet is caught in a conflict between the most prominent autism organization in the United States advocating for early intervention, and autistic adults who see the condition as a difference, not a […]
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First Openly Autistic Florida Attorney, Haley Moss, Honored at Charity Gala: ‘The Hopes of so Many Rest on Her’

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By KATHERINE HIGNETT, NEWSWEEK When she hadn’t spoken by the age of three, doctors told Haley Moss’s parents she had autism. In January, twenty-one years after her 1997 diagnosis, she was sworn into the Florida Bar as its first openly autistic member. On Saturday, local autism charity Unicorn Children’s Foundation declared her a Youth Ambassador in recognition of […]