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• The government could do 100 or more things that could help my adult autistic kid. Reviving the vaccine-causation lie isn’t one of them.

  Yesterday, Donald Trump, Robert Kennedy and others met in the Oval Office to announce an executive order on vaccines and autism. I have a simple message for them: Don’t pretend that you are helping my kid, me or my family. Don’t act like you are speaking for us or our wants or desires. There is […]

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• Trump wants Robert Kennedy, who is already phoning it in at HHS, to take over a big piece of Special Education.

  Let’s start with an uncomfortable fact. States have a financial incentive to underserve disabled students. Special education is expensive, and every support costs money. The Department of Education exists, in part, as a federal watchdog to ensure that states live up to their obligations under the law. And these are kids who will never pay […]

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• Trump administration seeks to weaken disabled Americans’ access to community-based services

  When I was young, people like my kid were institutionalized. Access to community, either in their residence or their daily activities, was limited. Which is a nice way of saying, a lot of people never saw the outside of an institution. I don’t want to go back. I don’t want to think that after I […]

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• Dramatic Cuts in New NIH Research Funding Across the Board

  NIH autism research funding has collapsed since Mr. Kennedy became HHS Secretary. I wrote about this in my open letter to the IACC. Then I got curious: are the cuts limited to autism, or is this happening across NIH? The answer: it’s everywhere, and it’s worse than I expected. Below is a graph I made […]

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• Open letter to the IACC: Autism research is stalled. Get secretary Kennedy to make new autism research grants.

  Secretary Kennedy has cut back on autism research, and you can act. You should act. You must act. Here are data from NIH Reporter on new NIH autism grants by fiscal year. I pro-rated the results from 2026, since the fiscal year ends in September. This graph shows only those grants which are new in each fiscal […]

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