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Families Make the Critical Difference in the Pace of Autism Research | March-April 1997
Families Make the Critical Difference in the Pace of Autism Research The Advocate March-April 1997 by: Portia Iversen & Jonathan Shestack Families of people with autism have taken the lead in genetic research by forming AGRE, the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange. This is the world’s first truly collaborative gene bank for autism. It is administered with…
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Hearing Gives Burton a Last Shot at Autism Issue | Nov. 27, 2012
By Melissa Attias Roll Call Hearing Gives Burton a Last Shot at Autism Issue Indiana Republican plans to focus on environmental factors that could have effects on children’s neurological systems For more than a decade, Indiana Republican Dan Burton has been a leading House voice on autism and a proponent of the theory that mercury in…
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Autism Family Caregivers Act of 2022, H.R.6783 (PDF Avail.) | #AutismPolitics #BanABA
H.R.6783 – Autism Family Caregivers Act of 2022 To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to award grants for providing evidence-based caregiver skills training to caregivers of children with autism spectrum disorder or other developmental disabilities or delays, and for other purposes.…
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Children’s Health Act of 2000 (PDF Avail.) | October 17, 2000 #AutisticHistory
PUBLIC LAW 106–310—OCT. 17, 2000Public Law 106–310 106th Congress Children’s Health Act The Children’s Health Act of 2000 (Pub.L. 106–310, 114 Stat. 1101, enacted October 17, 2000), signed by President Clinton on October 17, 2000, was brought into law to conduct a study focusing on children from before conception to 21 years of age. The law authorized the formation of federal…
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HR 3301: SURVEILLANCE AND RESEARCH REGARDING PREVALENCE AND PATTERN OF AUTISM (ASSURE) | Nov. 10, 1999 #AutisticHistory
Subtitle B–Autism CHAPTER 1–SURVEILLANCE AND RESEARCH REGARDING PREVALENCE AND PATTERN OF AUTISM SEC. 211. SHORT TITLE. This chapter may be cited as the `Autism Statistics, Surveillance, Research, and Epidemiology Act of 1999 (ASSURE)’. SEC. 212. DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SURVEILLANCE AND RESEARCH PROGRAMS. (a) NATIONAL AUTISM AND PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM- The Secretary of Health…
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Autism Speaks | HHS announces appointment of chair and members for autism committee | Oct. 28, 2015 #AutisticHistory #BanABA #EndAutismSpeaks
HHS announces appointment of chair and members for autism committee Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee membership includes Autism Speaks’ Chief Science Officer October 28, 2015 Today the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced new and returning members to the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) including a new acting chair Dr. Bruce Cuthbert and…
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Autism Speaks | Dollars And Doctors For Medicaid Shrink As Enrollment Grows | Dec. 11, 2014 #AutisticHistory #EndAutismSpeaks #BanABA
Dollars And Doctors For Medicaid Shrink As Enrollment Grows December 11, 2014 WASHINGTON, DC — Just as access to Medicaid-funded treatment for autism is growing, two new reports show doctors face steep fee cuts and that half the providers listed as “participating” in state Medicaid managed care programs in fact do not participate or have stopped accepting new patients. One third…
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