The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee is a group representing government agencies that research autism and some segments of the autism community. It was reenacted as a result of the Combating Autism Act. The main product, if you will, of the IACC is the Strategic Plan, which lays out a suggested framework for [...]
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U.S. Government Committee recomends increased research into the needs of autistic adults
Friday, February 5th, 2010IACC calls for $175 million in autism and the environment research
Friday, February 5th, 2010The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee has posted the revised Strategic Plan. I blogged it recently here on LeftBrainRightBrain. I made a note of the large commitment to environmental causation research. I thought it worthwhile to highlight that section, since this is the cause of so much criticism of the IACC.
Strangely, the criticism [...]
The new IACC Strategic Plan is online
Thursday, February 4th, 2010The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) has posted the revised “Strategic Plan“. This is the document which is supposed to guide US Government funded autism research.
The Strategic Plan is written from a parent’s perspective. It is divided into 7 questions to be answered. Below I list the parts I think are the [...]
IACC meeting next Tuesday
Thursday, January 14th, 2010As always, you can submit comments for the meeting. You don’t have to wait for them to request comments. They will be voting on the Strategic Plan. This is a good time to submit comments.
Ms. Lina Perez
Office of Autism Research Coordination
National Institute of Mental Health, NIH
6001 Executive Boulevard, NSC
Room 8185a
Rockville, MD [...]
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