Undergraduate, Arabic and Islamic Studies
Georgetown College
About
I intern for the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN) and belong to the Autism Women's Network (AWN).
I am the author of S-1197 and H-2909, proposed legislation that would mandate training about autism for all law enforcement and corrections officers in Massachusetts, for which I was recognized through an Honorable Mention by the Massachusetts Advocates for Children (MAC)'s first annual Youth Advocate of the Year! Award in 2011. I worked with State Senator Katherine Clark and State Representative Paul Brodeur to file the Autism Training Bill, which is co-sponsored by Senator Jim Timilty, Representative Denise Provost, and Representative Kay Khan.
I have conducted research into educational outcomes for twice-exceptional students with Asperger's Syndrome and the portrayals of explicitly and implicitly Autistic characters in English-language literature. I am currently researching the roleplaying habits of Autistic roleplayers versus non-Autistic roleplayers. In 2011, I served as a member of the Adult Services Subcommittee to the Massachusetts Special Commission Relative to Autism. I spoke on a panel about Asperger's Syndrome and Young Adults at the Asperger's Association of New England's Asperger Syndrome Connections Conference in 2010. Earlier in 2010, I had an op-ed entitled "Asperger's Doesn't Create Miscreant" published in the Boston Herald.
I can be reached at lydia.brown@autismeducationproject.org.
