Thursday the US House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform will hold a hearing on autism: 1 in 88 Children: A Look Into the Federal Response to Rising Rates of Autism.
The witness list has been made public on the committee’s website:
Alan Guttmacher, M.D.
Director, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institutes of Health
Coleen Boyle, Ph.D.
Director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Mr. Bob Wright
Co-Founder
Autism Speaks
Mr. Scott Badesch
President
Autism Society
Mr. Mark Blaxill
Board Members
SafeMinds
Mr. Bradley McGarry
Coordinator of the Asperger Initiative at Mercyhurst
Mercyhurst University
Mr. Michael John Carley
Executive Director
Global & Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership
Mr. Ari Ne’eman
President
Autistic Self Advocacy Network
