Pennsylvania Launches Autism Surveillance Project To Understand Autism & Prevalence

The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS) launched the Pennsylvania Autism Surveillance Project (PASP). This cross-agency collaboration among DHS and the Pennsylvania departments of Education (PDE) and Health (DOH) will study the prevalence and age of identification in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental disabilities in the Commonwealth.

PASP will be part of the national Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network, a program funded by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to collect data to better understand the prevalence and characteristics of children with ASD and other developmental disabilities living in different . . .