OAR directs all its energies toward evidence-based
research for the children, adults, and families living
with autism today. No other autism organization has this
singular focus.”
OAR President, Peter Gerhardt, Ed.D.
The purpose of OAR is to raise autism awareness and fund
applied autism research. Your charitable donation helps OAR
in multiple ways:
$1 supports sending a Life Journey through Autism resource
guide to a parent or teacher.
$25 provides 25 copies of A Parent’s Guide
to Research sent to a community support group.
$100 provides a full scholarship to OAR’s Applied
Autism Research and Intervention Conference.
$250 enables an autism expert to participate in OAR’s
Autism Research Convocation.
$1,000 provides a research grant for a graduate student
studying autism.
$30,000 fully underwrites an applied research pilot study.