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Early-childhood home visiting and family support program. Uses Parents as Teachers model to help deliver parent education and support. Services include:

- Prenatal visits.

- Personal home visits.

- Group Connections.

- Infant Massage.

- Field trips.

- Family enrichment activities.

- Lending library (toys and books available).

- Transportation (limited).

- Development assessment.

- Individualized family support plan.

- Transition to pre-school programs.

The Place for Children with Autism provides an individualized autism assessment called the Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program, or VB-MAPP. Using the VB-MAPP, they determine baseline skills and assess each child's current milestones relating to language, learning, and social skills.

Union Health Service (UHS) - Polk Street Center provides assessments for identifying concerns or delays in infant's and toddler's development and to establish the necessity of intervention services.

Caravel Autism Health provides diagnostic evaluations for autism.

Vox Chicago provides assessment to identify concerns or delays in a child's development.

Kiddy Kare provides assessment to identify concerns or delays in a child's development and to establish the necessity of early intervention services.

The Place for Children with Autism provides an individualized autism assessment called the Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program, or VB-MAPP. Using the VB-MAPP, they determine baseline skills and assess each child's current milestones relating to language, learning, and social skills.

House of the Good Shepherd provides on-site therapy services for the children of residents of the shelter. Children younger than five are assessed for social, developmental, and emotional issues and developmental delays.

The Center for Psychological Services offers testing of individuals regarding psychological state. These may include personality tests, intelligence tests, attitude tests, or testing for psychological disorders.

The Place for Children with Autism provides an individualized autism assessment called the Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program, or VB-MAPP. Using the VB-MAPP, they determine baseline skills and assess each child's current milestones relating to language, learning, and social skills.

Angel Harvey Family Health Center's CHAT program provides children and their families with an opportunity to learn and practice social and interpersonal skills in a fun group environment that both children and families enjoy.

Lurie Children's Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics is a multidisciplinary group that specializes in the diagnostic evaluation and treatment of children with developmental delays, autism, ADHD, Down syndrome, learning disabilities, and intellectual disabilities.

Caravel Autism Health provides diagnostic evaluations for autism.

The Place for Children with Autism provides an individualized autism assessment called the Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program, or VB-MAPP. Using the VB-MAPP, they determine baseline skills and assess each child's current milestones relating to language, learning, and social skills.

Evaluation of developmental delays for children and adolescents, through psychological testing and neurodevelopmental evaluations. Services include multi-disciplinary autism spectrum evaluations.

Angel Harvey Family Health Center's Child Development Support Services provides a Specialist who is present in the Pediatric Clinic to see all newborns for developmental screening, to assist with problems with lactation, and to educate parents on child safety including car seats. From ages 3-6, child development specialists assist families dealing with poor verbal communication and behavioral and sensory issues; conduct additional developmental screenings; provide parent education and support; provide nutrition education for children with feeding issues; and provide behavioral and disciplinary interventions, social and emotional support, and language support. Parents are also given information about free or low-cost programs for their children through various resources. Child Psychiatry diagnoses and treats disorders of thinking, feeling, and/or behavior through medication affecting children, adolescents, and their families. The Child Psychiatry department works closely with the therapists in the CACS program, the child development specialists, and clinical providers.

Pediatricians and pediatric nurse practitioners provides developmental evaluations regarding a child's growth, physical movements, behavior, play, interactions with family members, physical exam, hearing and eye screenings, play observation, and standardized tests that present the child with specific tasks to determine areas of strength and weakness.

Provides cognitive assessments (gifted, intellectual disability assessments) with the client and includes clinical and collateral interviews, completion of self-report and collateral behavior rating scales, cognitive testing, measures of adaptive behavior (if indicated), and review of records.

Pediatricians and pediatric nurse practitioners provides developmental evaluations regarding a child's growth, physical movements, behavior, play, interactions with family members, physical exam, hearing and eye screenings, play observation, and standardized tests that present the child with specific tasks to determine areas of strength and weakness.

HealthWorks of Illinois: Receives reports from delivering hospitals on infants with adverse pregnancy outcomes. Nurses make follow-up visits with the clients to complete physical and developmental assessments.

Clearbrook coordinates evaluations and assessments of children from birth to 36 months to determine whether a child exhibits qualifying delays in one or more of the following areas of development: physical, cognitive, communication, social or emotional, and adaptive.Families with children who are determined eligible for Early Intervention services receive an Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP). The IFSP is developed with the family. The IFSP drives the services and supports available to the family.

Provides a structured assessment of an individual's abilities. Assessment includes developmental, physical, language, intellectual, social and emotional skills.