News & Events
- April 1 WKC journal club: Deepika Dokuru to present on brain development among infants at high risk of ASD. See calendar of events
- World Autism Day: Join us April 2 for our annual everyone-in-blue Autism Awareness and Acceptance photo! See calendar of events for time, location
- SEED and SEED Teen. Learn more at this link.
- Global autism research: Find out more at this link
- Recording June 4 autism prevalence symposium available. Watch it at this link.
- Addressing Autism: See what Wendy Klag Center researchers are doing at this link
- We need better measure of GI problems: WKC Director Dani Fallin, doctoral student Calliope Holingue write in Spectrum.
- 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.
Learn about affiliated faculty at Johns Hopkins and the Kennedy Krieger Institute -- and become a member!
See autism-related talks and presentations co-hosted or promoted by the Wendy Klag Center.
Spotlight
Research to focus on teens with autism spectrum disorder
Adolescent outcomes will be a new focus of autism research under CDC funding to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health. The funding comes under a new phase of the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network, the only collaborative network to monitor the number and characteristics of children with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities in multiple communities throughout the U.S. Learn more about this research led by Li-Ching Lee.
Message from
our Director
Dr. M. Daniele Fallin discusses the Wendy Klag Center mission:
To bring together researchers and families to find answers about autism and other developmental disabilities.
Grant Funding for
Student Projects
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Pilot Funding
for Faculty
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