Together, we can design and reauthorize the best possible federal legislation that provides critically needed direct services along with usable research that can address both the immediate needs of individual with autism and their families, and help prevent new families from facing the costs, health burdens and lost opportunities that come with an autism diagnosis.  We invite you to join us in this opportunity to meet the needs of Americans with autism.

We are advocating for legislation that will:

1. Recognize that our country faces a national public health emergency.
   
2. Direct increased resources for a lifespan of autism services through established services infrastructure at the state level.
   
3. Dedicate federal research to strategic research that can halt the autism epidemic in its tracks.
   
4. Conduct autism surveillance with the scope, timeliness and rigor appropriate to the need.
   
5. Focus strategic new research in areas that can yield meaningful near term results.  
   
6. Keep individuals with autism safe from accidental death and injury.
   
7. Prevent harmful restraint and seclusion of autistic individuals.
   
8. Address critical gaps in vaccine safety research and policy governance.
   
9. End health insurance discrimination against individuals with autism.  
   
10. Develop autism policy with an open, transparent approach.

Read our expanded Guiding Principles