CAR News & Announcements

The Autism Roadmap is a new website developed entirely as a result of philanthropy and with the expertise of nearly a dozen of the nation’s top autism experts at The Center for Autism Research (CAR) at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Autism spectrum disorders have an enormous price tag, and experts at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are hoping that all those dollar signs add up to increased attention on new research and more coordinated ways to support patients with autism throughout adulthood.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently announced a new prevalence estimate for Autism Spectrum Disorder: 1 in 68 individuals.

The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders, or ASD, is staggering — an estimated 1 out of 88 children have some form of ASD. As the word “spectrum” in the name suggests, ASD varies in its range and severity among those affected.

An exciting new study of autism examined whether microscopic, abnormal folds in the tissue of the placenta - could serve as a predictor of autism in children.


Tara Wenger, MD, PhD, a Pediatric Genetics fellow in the Center for Autism Research, was recently…

Children who are later diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder have subtle but measurable differences in attention as early as 7 months of age, a new study shows. Infants who went on to be diagnosed with autism are slower to shift their gaze from one object to another,…

One out of 88 children in the United States has been diagnosed as having an autism spectrum disorder. There is no cure and relatively few treatments that work well for everyone on the autism spectrum. But research, including ground-breaking studies on infants, is making great…

A new study verifies the long-controversial belief that a few children, in exceptional cases, can "recover" from autism. The study, which included CHOP's Center for Autism Research, is the first solid science to confirm that, however rarely, with the help of…

CHOP’s Center for Autism Research produced a number of breakthrough studies in 2012, two of which were recently highlighted by the scientific community. The advocacy organization Autism Speaks selected a Center for Autism Research study as one of its top discoveries of 2012,…

The Center for Autism Research (CAR) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia works to make rapid progress in understanding the underlying causes of autism. CAR's mission is based on the principle that effective treatments for autism spectrum disorders, or ASD, will…