Plus Value Awareness support this annual event.
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New blog
for this year's event
Blog: Value Better
The project director has written an insight article for to encourage valuing autistic people better beyond understanding and acceptance.
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New blog
for this year's event
Blog: Be Smart
The project director has written an insight article on changing out perceptions and presumptions.
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Connected projects
Stigma Free
Widen our attitudes and perspectives
Blog: Beyond just Awareness & Understanding Free
Looking beyond the minimum approach
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Support statement
Plus Value Awareness support statement
by Project Director Keith McKenzie
World Autism Acceptance Week
This event is one of many awareness events on autism during April & June. It is very important to have a balance of voices and perspective. It must not be limited to awareness officials, medical professionals, academics and parents of autism. It must include voices directly from individuals living within the autistic spectrum. It must include their perspective and insights from ground level & must be heard at ground level.
Society must do more to reduce negative stigma and not generalise all people with autism which leads to prejudice, vanity ignorance & hatred in society.
As well as fundraising, general understanding and addressing issues we must also embrace representative voices from the autistic spectrum unfiltered and without being underestimated. This is essential to stamp out misrepresentation, generalisations, inaccurate presumptions & ignorance which can affect an autistic person's self-worth.
World Autism Acceptance & Awareness Day & Month
This awareness initiative has an important angle during April by focusing on the human aspects of autistic experiences. Also, empowering and celebrating the positivity of individuals with autism. There are many positive attributes of an autistic person and strengths to be recognised. We must also need to focus on the positive aspects and not the ignorance, stereotypes or typecasts.
Since 2008 this awareness initiative family have supported these events every year.
Customised projects
for the Autistic Spectrum
Advantage
Autistic Spectrum edition
Focusing on the Strengths and attributes
Valuing Hidden Differences
Autistic Spectrum edition
Covering different aspects in valuing an autistic person
Diverse Achievers
Autistic Spectrum edition
A summary list of achievers and role models
Other projects to explore
from the Plus Value
Awareness family
Elements of Value
Visual art and information to explore a postive sense of value
Inclusive Differences
The importance of inclusivity
Positive Value
Introductory project to enable hidden differences as citizens
Diverse Senses
Bitesize project on appraching hidden differneces
Diverse Keywords
Bitesize understanding project within keywords
Value & Human Rights
The importance on respecting human rights and fair treatment with dignity
Event information
World Autism Acceptance Week
This annual event is mainly organised by the National Autistic Society which hosts a series of campaigns and topics on autism in & around the United Kingdom. In addition, the week is also used for money-raising activities to enable the National Autistic Society to maintain a family of services & support to families of the autistic spectrum.
Additionally, other organisations and charities in the UK and around the world also observes this event with a series of awareness events, seminars and activities to improve acceptance and understanding autism at local, regional & national level.
From March 2022 onwards the event was renamed as World Autism Acceptance Week after extenstive research and feedback. The event was previously known as World Autism Awareness Week
World Autism Awareness Day
The annual event on April 2nd & is one of seven official United Nations health-related events. Created in 2008 is to bring autism organisations together to highlight campaigns & information to cover topics & issues.
As part of World Autism Awareness Day, the organisation Autism Speaks organises the annual campaign which encourages communities and business to "light it blue" to highlight the medical awareness by encouraging the general public and specific places of interest to display a blue light. Many people on the autistic spectrum find the campaign from Autism Speaks extremely offensive and demeaning as the campaign is seen as having too many medical aspects and the lacking of acceptance and value.
World Autism Awareness Month
The event also known as World Autism Month is a supplement to World Autism Awareness Day, a family of different organisations and charities around the world get involved in several awareness campaigns and activities to improve understanding of the wider public, organisations and business.
Autism Acceptance Day
Takes place on the same day as World Autism Awareness Day (April 2nd). It was originally created in 2011 by Paula Durbin Westby was was supported by the Washington D.C based organisation Autistic Self-Acceptance Advocacy Network. This is promoted by organisations in the United States & around the world. This event is to challenge the conventions of autism awareness.
Autism Acceptance Month
This event is an expansion to Autism Acceptance Day, This is promoted by organisations in the United States & around the world. This event is to challenge the conventions of autism awareness.
Many people on the autistic spectrum appreciate this event compared to similar events during the same timescale due to the fact that it focuses more on acceptance and the human aspects
In recent years, there have been no current campaigns or an official website. However, many organisations, projects and groups from around the world continue to promote Autistic Acceptance during April in the communities, online & on social media.
Plus Value Awareness will continue to promote autistic acceptance during April
Follow the discussion during World Autism events in the spring
#worldautismawaressweek #WAAW
#worldautismday #WAAD
#autismawarenessmonth
#autismacceptance
#autismacceptanceday
#autismacceptancemonth
Recommended organisations
Visit the offical webite of World Autism Acceptance Week
by the National Autistic Society
Visit the official webite of World Autism Awareness Day
by the United Nations
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