Autism Speaks March Held in Portland

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Mon, 09/28/2009 - 12:00am

The group Autism Speaks held a march this weekend in Portland and raised over fifty thousand dollars, which they say will go to research on autism.
But some people with autism and parents of kids with autism protested the march, saying that it does not represent them.
KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg spoke with Phoebe Lumis, one of the protest organizers and a member of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network:

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