| The Children’s Health Act of 2000 required the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to study childhood development, particularly autism spectrum disorders. The North Carolina Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Research and Epidemiology (NC-CADDRE) was established in 2002 through a cooperative agreement with the CDC. CADDRE has two main goals: first, to examine the prevalence of autism among school-age children and second, to examine factors that may contribute to developmental delays and autism in pre-school children. Experts in autism, epidemiology, pediatrics, genetics, childhood development and psychology, and statistics have joined together to do this research.
The network of researchers addressing the first goal is referred to by the CDC as Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM). This network tries to accurately estimate the number of children with mental retardation and autism. The North Carolina site under this network is referred to as the Child Development Epidemiology Project (CDE). This study does not have contact with individual subjects.
The Study to Explore Early Development (SEED) is being done to better understand factors contributing to developmental delays and autism and involves working with children and their families to complete several research activities.
These studies have been reviewed and approved by the UNC Biomedical Institutional Review Board (Committee on the Protection of Rights of Human Subjects in Research) and both have strict confidentiality policies in place.
To contact us:
Chyrise Bradley
Project Coordinator
CB#: 8126
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8126
NC-CADDRE
Phone: 919-966-0938
Toll free: 1-866-633-8003
Fax: 919-843-0568
E-mail:
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What is 'epidemiology'?
Epidemiology is a branch of public health which examines health in groups of people. Epidemiologists study the numbers of people affected by health problems, the characteristics of those who are affected, and when and where the cases of health problems occur.
What is 'autism'?
Autism, or Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), is a set of developmental disorders. ASD symptoms range from mild to severe and include problems in social behavior, communication, language development, and unusually restricted interests or repetitive behaviors.
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