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…
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) - a family of developmental disorders associated with complex social challenges - can be scary, and not just because autism's causes remain largely unknown, or because effective treatments are elusive. Autism is also scary because its…
