When Ari Ne’eman was a student at a Jewish middle day school in New Jersey, he was asked to leave the program due to misunderstandings about the nature of his autism spectrum disorder diagnosis. Today ...

Harvard researcher Ari Ne'eman says the policy shifts underway under the Trump administration pose a unique threat to people with disabilities,... When Ari Ne'eman heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. call ...

Ari Ne’eman co-founded the Autistic Self Advocacy Network in 2006. From 2010 to 2015, he served as one of President Obama’s appointees to the National Council on Disability. He received a PhD in ...

When Ari Ne’eman heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. call autism an “epidemic” that “destroys families,” Ne’eman felt like he had stepped into a time machine — heading in the wrong direction. It was during an ...

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