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Federal Judge Rules for Military Families on ABA Coverage

WASHINGTON, DC (July 26, 2012) -- A federal judge in Washington has handed military families a major victory in their pursuit of insurance coverage for Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy for their dependents by ... More...

House Approves Key Measure for Military Families

NEW YORK, NY (May 17, 2012) Autism Speaks, the nations leading autism advocacy and science organization, today hailed the U.S. House of Representatives for approving a bipartisan amendment that would assure a... More...

President Obama Signs Budget Bill Appropriating First $230 Million Authorized by CARA

WASHINGTON, DC (December 23, 2011) -- President Obama today signed into law an omnibus budget bill that includes an estimated $230 million in new federal funding for autism research and services, the first of three annual appropri... More...

House Approves $8 Million for DoDARP for FY 2010

Washington, DC (August 1, 2009) -- In a vote of 400-30, the U.S. House has approved $8 million in funding for the Department of Defense Autism Research Program (DoD-ARP) for Fiscal Year 2010. This funding has been... More...

House Passes FY 09 Appropriations Bill Containing $8 Million for DoDARP

Washington, D.C) (September 25, 2008) The Fiscal Year 2009 Defense Appropriations bill was passed by the full House by a vote of 370-58 and ncludes $8 million for the Department of Defense Autism Spectrum Disorder... More...

President Bush Signs Bill Funding DoD Autism Reasearch Program for Third Straight Year

(Washington, DC - September 30, 2008) Today, President Bush signed into law H.R. 2638, an omnibus measure that in included the final Fiscal 2009 Defense, Homeland Security, Military Construction/Veterans Admi... More...

House Approves $8 Million for 2007 DoDARP Program

WASHINGTON, DC (August 5, 2007) The FY2008 Defense Appropriations Act passed by the House of Representatives contains an $8 million targeted appropriation for the Autism Spectrum Disorders Research Prog... More...

Autism Speaks Lauds Unprecedented House of Representatives Military Appropriation for Autism Research

NEW YORK (June 13, 2006) -- Autism Speaks, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing awareness of autism and raising money to fund autism research, today praised the House of Representatives Defense Appropriations Subcom... More...