Category: News
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Thoughts from HDI’s Brittany Granville On Autism Acceptance Month
While it’s important that autistic people have their place in society, Brittany Granville believes autism acceptance goes beyond that. She thinks it can save lives. “So many autistic people, particularly autistics of color, have died because people don’t understand common traits of neurodivergent people,” Granville, who works with HDI’s Innovative Supports for Autistic Workers (ISAW)…
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Thoughts from HDI’s Bev Harp On Autism Acceptance Month
Bev Harp, Project Director for HDI’s Innovative Supports for Autistic Workers, remembers the days when the only rhetoric about autism was awareness rhetoric. And she remembers that awareness could mean radically different things to different people. “To some people that meant being aware that autistic people exist and that autism is a disability and needs…