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Area Providers Specializing in Autism
The mandatory legal notice:
FAVAN does not take a position recommending specific therapies or practitioners.
However, FAVAN members will generally be happy to share their experiences
during and after monthly meetings to help you make your own decisions.
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Avon Therapeutic Center
- Avon Therapeutic Center for Children, LLC, is a multifaceted medical
center established to provide comprehensive treatment
modalities and after-school therapeutic programs for children and
adults with special needs - includes Autism Spectrum Disorder
(ASD) and autism-related disorders
- Center for Children with Special Needs
- The Center for Children with Special Needs is located in Glastonbury,
Connecticut. Available services include evaluations, academic
recommendations, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and
social skills groups. Phone: 860-430-1762
- Creative Interventions, LLC
- Creative Interventions, LLC is committed to improving the lives of
children with autism. A focus is placed on functional skills and parent
involvement. Services offered include: Discrete trial
instruction, Verbal Behavior
Training, Social Skills Training, Academic Instruction, Evaluations and
Consultations. West Hartford, CT, (860) 413-9538
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Kim Downey, PT Special Connections LLC
- Kim Downey is a Certified Consultant in the
RDI Program™ in
Brookfield, CT.
Email: kimdowney@charter.net
- FOCUS Alternative
Learning Center
- FOCUS specializes in the treatment of children and adolescents who
are on the Autism Spectrum, suffer from anxiety disorders, or
experience processing and social learning difficulties.
Focus is open daily from 12pm-6pm Monday through Friday during the
school year, and from 9am-4pm during a six week summer program.
The clinical staff at FOCUS provides the following services:
Structured milieu,
group therapy, family therapy, individual therapy, medication monitoring,
and collaboration with schools. FOCUS is in Canton, CT,
(860) 693-8809.
- The Talcott Center
for Child Development
- The Talcott Center for Child Development offers group and individual programs for children ages 9 months to 18 years. Speech and occupational therapy services are available for children birth to 21 years.
- TheraCare
- TheraCare is a home / community based Applied Behavior Analysis
(ABA) program. TheraCare recently began offering services in
Connecticut.
- Yale Child
Study Center
- The Yale Developmental Disabilities Clinic offers
comprehensive, multidisciplinary evaluations for children
with social disabilities, usually focusing on the issues of
diagnosis and intervention. The clinic is headed by Fred Volkmar,
M.D., and Ami Klin, Ph.D., two of the most respected experts in
the field of autism, Asperger's Syndrome (AS), and other Pervasive
Developmental Disorders (PDDs). The clinic is located in the Child
Study Center at Yale University in New Haven, CT, (203) 785-2874.
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