North Shore Pediatric Therapy is a multidisciplinary clinic dedicated to consultation of treatment, providing the highest quality services to children and families. Our professionals include occupational (S.I),speech and physical therapists, ABA therapists using DT and VB, extenders of RDI and Floortime, Nutritionists, and social workers. We do individual and group sessions. We also have summer camp and intensive handwriting and bike riding programs.

Deborah Michael, MSOTR, Director, also sits on the professional advisory commitee of the autism society of Illinois. She is an active member of the professional community focusing a large part of their careers on children with autism spectrum disorders. She is also certified in sensory integration (SIPT)as are her therapists.

All of therapy is private, and we will help parents bill insurance.

National & International Services Available

Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)
Master in Early Childhood Special Education, M.S.Ed.
Illinois Early Intervention Credentialed: Developmental Therapist
State of Illinois Type 09, Secondary
State of Illinois Special Ed. approval, LD and Learning Behavior Specialist I
Indiana Autism/DD Waiver Level 2 Behavior Support provider, with Level 1 supervision
Behavior Analysis Society of Illinois, President

We provide specialized consultation services based on educational programs using the ABLLS, and expanding skills to include integration into the typical classroom. Individualized programs are developed in order to maximize each child's learning. We provide home-based consultations, and continued supervision of your child's program, including parent and therapist training.

Programming is focused on:
-Verbal Behavior
-Natural Environment Training
-Discrete Trial Training
-Errorless Learning
-RDI Program Integration

The mission of Advocate Health Care is to serve the health needs of individuals, families and communities through a wholistic philosophy rooted in our fundamental understanding of human beings as created in the image of God.

Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center physicians have a long tradition of advancements in virtually every area of medicine. Our doctors continue to pioneer new efforts in areas including cancer, cardiology, obstetrics and emergency services. These accomplishments are the result of listening to patients and responding with new ideas in care and treatment.

Physician familiar w/autism

This site provides play-centered programs to children with disabilities, including a toy lending library, computer play programs, and play sessions.

The Central Illinois Chapter of the Autism Society of America strives to improve the lives of all our community affected by Autism by providing resources, educational opportunities, and social activities as well as emotional and financial support.

Coverage area is approximately 60 miles around Springfield.

Primarily for residents of Northeastern Illinois, this list will provide updated information; also will provide users the means to share information - a sort of "on-line" support group for the greater Chicagoland area, (although we'd like to grow to cover the entire state so Downstaters please feel free to join too!)

Barbara Doyle is a Clinical Consultant, trainer and educator who specializes in working with people with autism disorders across their lifetimes. She is an enthusiastic and practical trainer for staff and families. She has extensive experience with people with ASD who are also hearing impaired/deaf or visually impaired/blind. Ms. Doyle consults with and provides training and technical assistance to school districts, adult services providers, families and therapy centers. Her focus is on the development of skills needed across the lifetime and on improving the teaming process to get better outcomes for children and adults with ASD. She provides individual consultations for people with ASD whose behavioral, learning or social skills issues are preventing them from living the highest qualtiy of life. Staff and families find her training to be practical and useful, and full of "ready to use" fresh ideas, presented with a humanistic and logical approach.

Brehm Preparatory School provides a comprehensive range of services, which include: instruction in core academic area; social skills development; lifestyles development; recreational therapy; cultural enrichment; career counseling and pre-vocational exploration. Speech and language therapy and psychological counseling are available on a contractual basis as needed.

Providing a wide variety of consultation, evaluation, and treatment services to help children and families affected by developmental challenges in Illinois. We offer Occupational Therapists, Speech-Language Pathologists and Clinical Developmental Psychologists specializing in a variety of complementary therapies.

Coleman Tri-County Services serves individuals in Gallatin, Saline, and White counties. They offer in-home respite services for individuals of all ages with
developmental disabilities.

Community Alternatives Unlimited (CAU) is a private not-for-profit organization, incorporated in the state of Illinois as a 501(c)3. CAU is the first case management agency in Illinois that provides independent case management services to individuals with a wide range of disabilities, including developmental disabilities, mental health needs, hearing, visual and physical impairments.

Guidance to community based services

Community Support Services, Inc. is a private, not-for-profit service agency that initiates, provides and promotes services for people with developmental disabilities and their families, within their own communities, in order to strengthen their independence, self-esteem, and ability to participate in and contribute to community life.

Kryptopyrrole Quantitative Urine Test - Metabolic Testing

Doctor’s Data, Inc. (DDI) a premier clinical laboratory with over 30 years’ experience, provides specialty testing to healthcare practitioners around the world. A specialist and pioneer in essential and toxic elemental testing of multiple human tissues, the laboratory offers a wide array of functional testing. DDI’s tests are utilized in the assessment, detection, prevention, and treatment of heavy metal burden, nutritional deficiencies, gastrointestinal function, hepatic detoxification, metabolic abnormalities, and diseases of environmental origin.

Don Johnston empowers educators with supplemental instruction and intervention solutions to help
struggling learners build core literacy skills. Explore new teaching strategies and the latest brain-based research while enhancing students' academic performance in Early Intervention,
Extended Learning, RTI, Title I, Special Education, Remediation, ESL and Adult Basic Education.

The Developmental Disorders Clinic (DDC) offers comprehensive, multidisciplinary evaluations by a clinical psychologist and a child psychiatrist, with a particular emphasis on diagnosis and consultation. The DDC also provides treatment and consultation in behavior management and educational programming for children and adults with autism and other pervasive developmental disorders

The Developmental Disorders Clinic (DDC) offers comprehensive, multidisciplinary evaluations by a clinical psychologist and a child psychiatrist, with a particular emphasis on diagnosis and consultation. The DDC also provides treatment and consultation in behavior management and educational programming for children and adults with autism and other pervasive developmental disorders.