Online Registry Set to Streamline Autism Research

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The country's first online autism registry, set to debut this month, should accelerate research into the disease, the director of the project said.

Dr. Paul Law said the Interactive Autism Network, or IAN, will be launched by the Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore. One of its goals will be to help find families of children with autism spectrum disorders.

In addition to making it possible for families to participate in online research projects, IAN will help get those families connected to other local and national projects for which they might qualify. By year's end, project organizers hope to have the largest collection of family-provided data ever compiled on …