Breaking News:Senate HELP Committee Reschedules Meeting for September 7 – from ASK
The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee has announced that it has rescheduled a hearing on the Combating Autism Reauthorization Act (CARA) for September 7. The meeting had been scheduled for this Wednesday Aug. 3, a date that unfortunately landed in the midst of the debt ceiling debate which has consumed Congress for much of the summer. [...]
Breaking News:URGE YOUR U.S. SENATOR TO ATTEND Wednesday’s Committee Meeting on Autism
In 2006, The Combating Autism Act authorizing nearly $ 1 Billion was handed into regulation. Funding allocated and other provisions in that law will come to an conclude until the bill is reauthorized prior to September 30th. Our community has $ 693 Million of committed autism investigation funding about the next three a long time [...]
You have to know:In Their Own Words – Meeting My Baby Girl
This is a weblog article by Rachel, a military spouse and mom of two kids. Her daughter RM was born with a 4q Deletion and has an autism prognosis. Rachel was portion of the ‘Light the White House Blue for Autism‘ campaign and has a website,’Welcome to StimCity.’ Finally. It was the longest wait of my lifestyle [...]
Breaking News:Philly Meeting Stirs New IDEAS – from ASK
Publish by Daniel Lightfoot, PhD, director of the Autism Speaks Autism Tissue Plan A major roadblock to our understanding of autism is our lack of recognized biological markers for this condition. Biological markers for a problem these as autism can contain gene alterations and other measurable biochemical changes in the cells and tissue of individuals [...]