The NIH has a committee called the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee. Their main goal has been to create a “Strategic Plan”. That’s basically a roadmap for where research should concentrate efforts for the next few years.
They want your input. The official request for information is here.
It boils down to this: send an [...]

The main “product” if you will of the IACC is the “Strategic Plan”. This, not surprisingly, is a plan to coordinate the research directions that the government funded agencies should undertake.
As part of the process, they have published a “Request for Input“, or RFI. They want comments on the draft version of the [...]

The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee–the group that is working to come up with a plan for how the government should spend money on autism research–has asked for input. This is an “RFI” or “request for information”, from the services subcommittee.
Follow the link for more details, but here are some segments worth noting:
Information Requested
The IACC [...]

I mentioned that the IACC was having a meeting of the “Implementation Workgroup” previously. The meeting was held today.
If you are wondering, they are very easy to “attend”. You can either call in to a listen-only line or you can also watch the presentations they are working on. For this meeting, the presentation [...]

There is going to be a meeting of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee on August 8.
Follow the link above for a description of the IACC, but it is basically what it sounds like: a committee to coordinate the government’s research efforts in autism.
Copied below is the email discussing this. This is exactly the sort [...]