In a win for
self-advocates, lawmakers said this week that they will no longer seek to
include the term “combating” in the title of the nation’s primary autism
legislation.
A bill to
reauthorize hundreds of millions of dollars in federal spending for prevalence
tracking, research, early identification efforts and other autism initiatives
will move forward under a new name — the Autism Collaboration, Accountability,
Research, Education and Support Act, or Autism CARES.
The new name
emerged earlier this week in a U.S. Senate proposal to renew the law previously
known as the Combating Autism Act. A committee in the U.S. House of
Representatives quickly followed suit by attaching the new title to its version
of the bill and voting to move the measure on for consideration by the full
House.
To read more, please visit this site:
http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2014/06/12/congress-combat-autism-no/19436/
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