Federal Autism Activities: Better Data & More Coordination Needed to Help Avoid The Potential For Unnecessary Duplication. GAO-14-16

November 1, 2013
Between December 2012 and November 2013, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) analyzed the extent to which federal agencies fund potentially duplicative autism research and assessed the extent to which the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) and federal agencies coordinate and monitor federal autism activities. The analysis included federal agency documents and data and interviews with federal agency officials and select nonfederal IACC members. The report includes descriptions of 1,206 federally funded autism research projects, as well as the agencies’ non- research autism-related activities that took place from fiscal years 2008 through 2012. The GAO found . . .