Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) Meeting

‘The purpose of the IACC meeting is to discuss business, agency updates, and issues related to autism research and services activities.’

‘The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) is a congressionally mandated federal advisory committee that provides coordination across federal agencies concerning autism research and services and provides advice to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.’

Liveblogged by Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D.

Agenda (in Eastern Time):

• 9:00am — Welcome, Introductions
• 9:15am — National Autism Coordinator Update
• 9:25am — Opening Remarks, Draft Strategic Plan Process, Historical Context, Consideration of Written Public Comments
• 9:40am — Draft Strategic Plan Foundation & Part I Draft Strategic Plan: A New Federal Framework for Autism
• 10:00am — Part II Draft Strategic Plan: Discovery Biology and the Case for Precision Translation
• 10:10am — Committee Discussion of Sections Presented During Morning Session
• 10:55am — Break
• 11:05am — Oral Public Comments
• 12:00pm — Committee Discussion of Oral Public Comments
• 12:15pm — Break
• 1:15pm — Part II Strategic Plan Continued (Neurodevelopmental Regression, Stakeholder and Lived Experience, Neuroimmune Presentation and Clinical Overlap) & Committee Deliberation and Consideration of Revisions
• 2:05pm — Parts III and IV Draft Strategic Plan: Precision Infrastructure and the National Translational Enterprise and Priority Therapeutic Domains (Neural Circuitry and Psychopharmacology, Immune, Autoimmune and Inflammatory Biology, Gastrointestinal Biology, Motor Planning and Praxis, Gastrointestinal Biology and Clinical Endpoints) & Committee Deliberation and Consideration of Revisions
• 3:15pm — Break
• 3:20pm — Part V Draft Strategic Plan: Federal Navigation, Diagnostic Access and Life Course Supports (Timely, Equitable Diagnosis, Improving Communications and Accesss, Housing Supply and Supported Living) & Committee Deliberation and Consideration of Revisions
• 4:15pm — Part VI Draft Strategic Plan: Federal Accountability, Implementation Oversight and Strategic Plan Updates
• 4:20pm — Committee Action and Next Steps (Voting, etc.)
• 4:55pm — Closing Remarks