NCSA Hill Brief: Declaring Autism a Public Health Emergency — 2025
NCSA urges the HHS Secretary to declare autism a Public Health Emergency under Section 319 of the Public Health Service Act, citing the profound autism crisis affecting 26.7% of children with ASD.
NCSA Letter to the IACC: Against Sanitized, Neutral Language in the Autism Strategic Plan — October 2022
Signed by the full NCSA board, this October 2022 letter to IACC Chair Joshua Gordon protests the committee's move to cleanse the autism Strategic Plan of clinical language — arguing that sanitized, strengths-based language actively harms the severe autism community by denying the realities that justify federal research funding.