Boston Children’s Hospital does an very thorough job at evaluating and diagnosing autism. Their expertise in this area is remarkable. The staff at Children’s are also very friendly and make your child and family feel comfortable in a hospital setting.
You need to have a referral from a pediatrician or another provider to access CDC.
Danielle enjoys working with both children and adults with varying communication and swallowing disorders. She has a strong background in working with children who are on the spectrum. Although based in Montpelier, she works in Chittenden County a few days a week.
The Luse Center provides speech-language pathology and audiology services to children throughout Vermont. They offer numerous services from speech and language assessments and programming, audiological evaluations, auditory processing disorders screening, and hearing aid evaluations.
Learning Specialist Melissa M. King and her team listen and respond to clients’ questions by employing scientifically sound practices that are both thorough and sensitive. We work with individuals of all ages, parents, schools, and colleges to provide psychoeducational, neuropsychological, and academic assessments. We provide record reviews, consultations, and independent educational evaluations.
Linda Rosenblad comes highly recommended by several service providers in the the area. She is a clinical psychologist in private practice working primarily with people with ASD and their families. She does individual and family therapy, parent support, consultation and diagnostic evaluations. She has occasional openings for ongoing clinical work and consistent availability for time-limited consults or evals.
Mary Wright is a psychologist and educational consultant who comes highly recommended by professionals and parents in the community. Mary has expertise in assessments, understanding of learning profiles, offers thorough academic recommendations, and shows compassion while working with clients.
Provides full neuropsychological assessments.
CVMC has a great facility that offers physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology for children. There facility is spacious and has numerous kid friendly equipment so children can enhance their skills in all areas. If you live in central Vermont area this is definitely the place to go!
Excellent physical therapist: Larissa Gillespie PT, DBT
The Vermont Center for Children, Youth, & Families is pleased to announce our continued partnership with the Vermont Department of Health in providing autism assessments for Medicaid supported families. Our clinic is interdisciplinary in nature and we strive to offer comprehensive autism spectrum disorder assessments using a family-based approach and incorporating evidenced-based evaluation tools while adhering to the state of Vermont Best Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis of Pervasive Developmental Disorders.
Voice offers evaluations, consultations, and trainings around Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). Julie Taylor, the director of Voice, has extensive experience working with kids with all types of disabilities. She evaluates, consults and provides trainings throughout the states of Vermont and New Hampshire with device users, with their families, with their educational teams and with other agencies.