On March 20, 2007, Senators Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Wayne Allard (R-CO) introduced the Expanding the Promise for Individuals With Autism Act of 2007. This critical legislation provides approximately $350 million to improve access to comprehensive treatments, interventions, and services for individuals with autism and their families.
The proposed legislation aims to:
• For the first time, convene a national task force to evaluate and report on evidence-based biomedical and behavioral treatments and services;
• Establish State-based demonstration grant programs to provide evidence-based autism treatments, interventions, and services for children and adults;
• Provide funding to protection and advocacy systems to address the needs of individuals with autism and other emerging populations of individuals with disabilities;
• Fund expanded access to coordinated multi-agency treatments, interventions, and services to children; and
• Provide supplemental grants for training and technical assistance to service providers and educators and to establish a national center on autism services information.
Please urge your Senator to cosponsor this legislation. Feel free to modify the sample letter to explain why access to autism services is so important to you. And let us know what you hear back!
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