News & Events
- New autism prevalence data: 1 in 36 8-year-olds identified. Read more
- NIH Autism Center of Excellence Network grant! WKC leaders Heather Volk and Chris Ladd-Acosta are PIs of a new grant to bring together data from many cohorts to explore gene-environment interaction.
- Coronavirus resources for individuals, families and others affected by autism. Find compiled information at this link
- JHU Magazine article focuses on WKC's teen autism research. See additional info
- SEED and SEED Teen. Learn more at this link.
- See videos of past WKC symposia. Talks from the 2015 "One Size Doesn't Fit All" symposium on research design are here, and a video of the entire 2013 WKC inaugural symposium is here.
The Wendy Klag Center for Autism & Developmental Disabilities encompasses a broad array of research and educational goals across the fields of public health including epidemiology, health services research, developmental research, policy research, population and family dynamics and beyond.
As of June 2022, we have new leadership! Heather Volk, PhD, replaces former WKC Director Dani Fallin, who has left for Emory University. Chris Ladd-Acosta, PhD, has become WKC vice director. Congratulations to all!
Learn about affiliated faculty at Johns Hopkins and the Kennedy Krieger Institute -- and become a member!
CDC again funds Maryland autism prevalence tracking project
Drs. Elise Pas (Department of Mental Health) and Christine Ladd-Acosta (Department of Epidemiology; joint appointment in Mental Health) have been awarded funding by the CDC to engage for another four years in surveillance with the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network. This is the sixth phase of funding since 2000. Maryland is one of few sites that have been continuously funded since that time. Maryland is one of 10 funded sites, plus a CDC-managed site in Georgia.
Maryland has been tracking the number of 8-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for two decades. It began tracking 4-year-olds in 2019. This new funding continues to support these efforts and will specifically count the number of children with ASD who were or will be 4 or 8, plus newly count 16-year-olds in 2022 and 2024.
Thank you to the educational and clinical partners who are an essential part of the Maryland project!
Maryland ADDM Principal Investigators Drs. Christine Ladd-Acosta (left) and Elise Pas
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