Putting My Lived Experience to Good Use

• By: Gyasi Burks-Abbott, MS Author, Public Speaker, and Autism Self-Advocate
• December 23rd, 2022
• actually autistic, advocacy, congress, lawmakers, legislation, personal story, policy, self-advocacy, Winter 2023 Issue
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As an autism self-advocate, I wear many hats: writer, public speaker, advisor, educator. One of my roles is LEND Program Faculty at Boston Children’s Hospital and UMass Boston’s Institute for Community Inclusion. The LEND Program (an acronym for Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and...