If you are a parent or school dealing with challenging behaviors and looking for strategies, Autism Outside the Box can help with positive, creative consultation and support.

Bittersweet Inc. is a care and treatment facility for adolescents and adults with autism. We have five main directorates at Bittersweet: Residential; Vocational; Supported Living and Respite; Advocacy and Supported Employment. Our residential program serves 20 persons in three Medicaid Licensed homes on our main campus. The habilitation program at these facilities happens in the morning and in the evening after completing their work. The residential schedules are full of exercise, academic programs and community outings. Habilitation goals of daily
living and skills of adaptive living such as laundry, personal hygiene, meal preparation, and structured social interaction play a large part in the success of our residential program. Our facility has five supported living homes. The participants come to our main campus for day programming and then go back to homes in the community that they share with other participants. Habilitation and skills development continue through all residential programs just as though they were living in our main campus housing. Bittersweet advocates and helps schools through consulting and planning, working with the local courts to advocate on the rights of individuals with autism. We also consult to groups or families to give them assistance on how to best serve persons with autism. We conduct tours to professionals and students to expose them to our model and perhaps to their first experience to someone with autism. Bittersweet offers Respite Services to families

The center for autism at the Cleveland Clinic is a multi-faceted service provider for individuals with autism spectrum disorder and like conditions. The Center offers a full day year-round intensive applied behavioral program for students from earliest diagnosis to age 22 years. The center currently serves 74 full- time students and will accomodate up to 100 full-time students as its state of the art facility is completed in 2008. The center's intensive behavioral early childhood program offers tiered levels of instruction and low ratios. The Center's school program provides intensive communication, behavior academic, social and career development services. The outreach program provides in-home behavioral programming, consultation and training. Diagnostic and medical assessment to the pediatric autism community is also available.The center conducts research in autism treatment.

The Board of MR/DD provides services and supports to more than 8,000 boys and girls and men and women in Cuyahoga County. The community knows us best for our early childhood centers, schools, adult activities centers and group homes, but we're much more than that.

Our full range of services includes everything from in-home early intervention programs for very young children and their families to leisure programs for seniors. Much of what we do goes beyond the walls of our own centers and homes and takes place in the community, where we encourage individuals with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities to live, learn, work and play.

D&E Counseling Center is a comprehensive behavior health treatment organization specializing in child, adolescent and family care. D&E Center has provided services since 1970. As a child adolescent behavioral health care provider we work with those up to their 18th birthdays.

I am a certiffied autism/MI teacher through the state of West Virginia. I am currently in the process of becoming an Independant Autism consultant. I work with families of autistic/MI children in their homes. I set up programs designed specifically for each individual. The programs focus on independants of the individual. I train respite workers on implimenting the specifically designed program for each individual.

Edu-AT-Tech is a private consulting firm that specializes in Assistive Technology for ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis), and play therapy approach to teaching children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, cognitive delays and other developmental disabilities.The mission Edu-AT-Tech is to provide educational and intervention services with assistive technology to children with learning disabilities and their families; to apply best-practice, research-based Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) procedures to enable individuals with autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, cognitive delays and other developmental disabilities to become productive participants in home, school, and community settings.Picture
Dr. Aries Cobb is an expert in Assitive Technology and Behavior Therapy.
She has a wealth of knowledge about K-12 students and adults with special needs.

Easter Seals has, for more than 80 years, provided services to children and adults with disabilities and special needs, and their families.

Easter Seals has, for more than 80 years, provided services to children and adults with disabilities and special needs, and their families.

I work as a psychologist/coach/trainer in Ohio and I bring hope and power to my clients. I work with schools, non-profit organizations, county agencies, and private businesses ... oh and yes I have private clients as well.

I remain convinced that a reactive problem focused approach to solving life's frustrations is often not effective, be it with an unruly child, an unproductive student, an unwilling employee, an individual with cognitive deficits, or an elderly who is just tired of living with one or more chronic illnesses. My focus on resources, on a preferred future, on what works, has helped many!!

For those who care for an individual with a developmental disability from Prader Willi Syndrome to Autism Spectrum Disorder, my practice is a place for support. We can support the educational needs of a student, the qualifying assessment for state support services, as well as strategies to better manage behavioral and emotional complications including strategies to improve sleep, to manage maladaptive behavior, or to improve interpersonal skills.

The Greater Akron ChapterOHIO) of the Autism Society of America serves Summit, Stark, Portage, Wayne and Medina counties. We offer parent support groups and professional board meetings. We also have a yahoo group.

Diagnostic evaluations; behavioral consultation to parents and schools using ABA model; social skills training groups; psychiatric services available on-site

K-12 Educational program for students with ASD. Programs for full spectrum. Funding available through Ohio Dept of Education Autism Scholarship Program.

Dr. Hansen is a clinical psychologist specializing in developmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorders. Services provided include psychological evaluation (including initial diagnoses), intensive behavioral intervention based on ABA principles, parent consultation, individual intervention, social skills groups and school consultation.

The Kelly O'Leary Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is a collaborative parent and professional program that provides diagnostic, treatment and support services. It was established when families advocated for a response to the needs of children with autism and their families. The makeup of the center was determined largely by family input. Based in the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, the center opened in 1999. To advance knowledge of autism spectrum disorders, the center also conducts research studies.

KidsLink Neurobehavioral Center provides comprehensive, multi-disciplinary treatment services for children with autism including pediatric neurology, psychology and speech and language therapy services. Recreational and family support opportunities are also available.

KidsLInk provides clinical treatment services, recreational opportunities, family support and special events for children with autism spectrum disorders, developmental disabilities, communication disorders, behavioral and emotional disorders and other neurologic disorders.