Autism Research & Support Services: Federal Interagency Coordination & Monitoring Efforts Could Be Further Strengthened

In February 2024, the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report that examined coordination and monitoring of federal autism activities. The report examines National Institutes of Health (NIH) efforts to (1) help coordinate federal autism activities and (2) monitor autism activities to ensure federal autism activities are not unnecessarily duplicative. GAO reviewed NIH documents and relevant federal laws; assessed NIH’s role in supporting coordination of autism activities against key practices that GAO identified in prior work; and gathered information from 19 federal agencies that conduct autism activities . . .