NCSA Statement: Commending Progress on the Autism CARES Act — June 2024
NCSA commended the House Energy and Commerce Committee for amending H.R. 7213 to include language recognizing individuals with profound autism across the full range of cognitive, communicative, behavioral, and adaptive functioning — and care necessary for physical safety.
NCSA One-Pager: The Autism CARES Act Needs an Overhaul Before Reauthorization — February 2024
NCSA's February 2024 one-pager opposing H.R. 7213 in its current form, calling for priority funding to identify autism's causes, recognition of profound autism in research, elimination of duplicative research, and replacement of the IACC with an NIH autism agency.
NCSA Letter to Sen. Menendez and Rep. Smith: Autism CARES Act Reauthorization — Concerns and Request for Meeting (January 2024)
NCSA wrote to the lead sponsors of the Autism CARES Act reauthorization in January 2024, arguing that 18 years of CARES funding have failed to address the autism crisis and urging bold reinvention — including a new NIH Office of Autism Research to replace the captured IACC.
NCSA Letter Supporting Reauthorization of the Autism CARES Act — February 2019
NCSA's February 2019 letter supporting reauthorization of the Autism CARES Act, urging Congress to use the reauthorization as a foundation for the systemic reform needed to prepare the country for the surge of adults with severe autism who will require lifelong public services.