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Briefings for people who have to live with the statutes.
August 28, 2026
Open letter to the IACC
Dawn Loughborough, Past President of APRC, thanks the Committee for adopting the 2026 strategy and urges NIH to move it from paper into results.
September 2, 2026
2026 highlight: APRC is working appropriations for the IACC Strategic Plan
September 1 letter to Appropriations: use the FY 2027 CR to protect the CARES floor and seed $103 million for research, NAPTI, and Autism.gov. Sign on or click yes in support.
September 2, 2026
Reauthorization is not a victory unless it changes the scoreboard
Federal autism statutes keep getting renewed. APRC’s test is simpler: can Congress tell families what the last five years of spending produced?
August 18, 2026
Waiver waitlists are policy, not weather
Home- and community-based services backlogs are treated as inevitable. They are appropriations and rate-setting choices.
July 9, 2026
Who sits on the IACC determines whose autism counts
Advisory committees that omit families of people with profound autism will keep writing plans those families cannot use.