Congressman visits Rutgers center to urge restoration of federal funding into research, treatment of autism | Home News Tribune

When New Jersey Autism Director of Public Policy Bob Titus first took his now 30-year-old son to the Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center at Rutgers University in 1985, experts estimated that one in 500 American children had a disorder falling somewhere on the autism spectrum. Today, that figure is one in about 50.