Advanced Behavioral Solutions (ABS) is a private practice that offers counseling services to children, adolescents, adults, and families. Our highly trained staff of professionals has extensive experience helping families stop struggling and find solutions. We provide assessment and psychological testing that includes detailed recommendations intended to provide families with a guide toward achieving better emotional health and social/academic adjustment. ABS offers social skills groups tailored to meet the needs of children who experience difficulties in the areas of expressive communication and social interaction. This therapeutic group engages children through the use of games, arts and crafts, and role-play, to promote assertiveness and cooperative play skills, learn the nuances of verbal and nonverbal communication, strengthen leadership skills, and refine their ability to foster relationships. Additionally, we facilitate therapeutic groups such as: Girl’s Club, Motivating the Academically Discouraged (M.A.D.), Executive Functioning, OCD and Anxiety, and Breaking Free from the Digital World.

ABCI is a Chicagoland and beyond ABA and dietary support provider. Our team includes Consultants with many years of experience providing ABA, a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA). We also have a Certified Healing Foods Specialist, to support families who wish to help their children achieve better health and improved symptom management through dietary interventions.

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.

The Chicago Children's Clinic specializes in the assessment and treatment of autism spectrum disorders, ADHD, learning disabilities, and social-emotional disorders using evidence-based practices.

The Chicago Children’s Clinic is the only practice in Illinois certified in the provision and training of Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT), recognized by the National Research Council and the National Autism Center as an established, evidence-based behavioral treatment that effectively improves socialization, communication, and behavior of children, adolescents, and adults with autism.

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.

Psychologist/Neuropsychologist

Impacting Autism Consultation and Therapy Services is dedicated to providing families and children with Autism with individualized ABA home programing. Dianna Poulos, M.A. has over 5 years of experiance working with children diagnosed with Autism, PDD-NOS and ADHD. As a behavior consultant and therapist her and her partner have dedicated their lives and career to providing families with individualized services and comprehensive programs. Impacting Autism is dedicated to making a difference in lives of every child and family they work with.

Services include:
Consultation
Educational Advocacy
IEP Services
ABA therapy- DTT, RDI and VB
Parent Training
Support Services- highly trained individuals to assist families with family support services and babysitting for children with disabilites.

Dedicated to impacting the lives of children the co-founder (Dianna Poulos, M.A.) has a degree in clinical psychology with a specialization in Applied Behavior Analysis and is sitting for her BCBA exam in November.

Impacting Autism, Inc. has been approved for reimbursment of services by insurance companies including BCBS and Aetna.

We design visual tools for individuals with communication deficits characteristic of Developmental Disabilities, ADHD, Intellectual Disabilities, Behavior Disorders, and Learning Disabilities.

We develop visual tools and behavior management programs to integrate into educational, vocational, community, residential, and home-based settings.

Kids Social Skills offers:
* A holistic approach that combines behavior modification with a commitment to respect and meeting the emotional needs of each child as well as the values of the family.
* An approach that sees practice in real life situations as a crucial component of progress, growth, and success.
* Experience with teaching social skills to children, in various settings.
* Experience working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams (Occupational Therapists, Speech therapist, Teachers, and Psychiatrists)

Learning strategies:

* Breaking down a skill into smaller units. Teaching each unit at a time, using child’s strengths.
* Playing pre-planned games and activities, tailored to meet the child’s needs. Working on the goals set with the parents.
* Role playing and modeling are frequently used.
* Teaching through successes, using positive reinforcements.
* Ongoing meetings with parents to review goals, strategies, and problem solving on a regular basis.
* Practice, practice, and some more practice.

DAN! Practitioner

As a Licensed Clinical Psychologist I work extensively with children, families, & schools providing consultation, evaluation, & treatment. I also integrate hypnotherapy to help parents cope with stress and provide tools for children to reduce anxiety secondary to developmental and learning problems.

We are board certified behavior analysts providing in-home Verbal Behavior and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services to children with Autism. We also provide professional development presentations and consultations with community agencies, schools and early education centers on how best to meet the needs of children with disabilities.

Rush NeuroBehavioral Center (RNBC) diagnoses and treats children with a variety of brain-based learning and behavioral disorders, including learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and autistic spectrum disorders. Our staff of multidisciplinary professionals identify the sources of a child's difficulties and recommend strategies to help the child and his/her family cope with these problems. RNBC staff consult families and schools on ways to manage a child's behavior and enhance his/her learning experiences.

Skill Sprout provides Applied Behavior Analysis consultation services to children throughout the United States. Board Certified Behavior Analyst staff provide individualized consultative services to families and children with Autism Spectrum Disorders through web-based technologies and on-site face-to-face consultation. Skill Sprout works with most major insurance providers. Geographic boundaries are no longer an obstacle for receiving professional services for your child!

SpeechKids is a comprehensive clinic providing support for familes, children and teens with special needs. Services include: speech and language therapy, social groups, music therapy, behavioral intervention, academic tutoring, social work, educational consulting and advocacy, assessment/evaluations and a drop-in and after school teen center.

The Autism Project was created by The Illinois General Assembly in response to the need for training, consultation and services for the state's growing number of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Designed to create and enhance community networks that promote best practice in the diagnosis, treatment and education of children with ASD. The Autism Project provides diagnostics, parent training and consulting services as part of the larger systems development venue. The project's research and evaluation division participates in and funds research initiatives that will have a direct impact on children, families and the system of care.

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.