The Autism Center at Hospital for Special Care (HSC) provides a variety of diagnostic, assessment, and therapy services for children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The Center’s multidisciplinary approach includes psychology, developmental pediatrics, speech/language therapy, occupational therapy, and child and Adolescent psychiatry.
The center offers individualized evaluations based on the child’s needs and may include psychological evaluation, psychiatric evaluation and developmental pediatrics evaluation.
In addition, the center offers speech and occupation therapy evaluation and treatments and work closely with the family to meet the individual needs of the child and family.
Our psychologists also offer a variety of treatment modalities to include family therapy, individualized psychotherapy grounded in the principles of cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and parent training grounded in the principles of Applied behavioral Analysis (ABA).

The Autism Center at Hospital for Special Care is the nation’s first and only Patient-Centered Specialty Practice (PCSP) for Autism Spectrum Disorder recognized by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for its responsiveness to patients and medical colleagues, its cooperation and integration with other health care groups, and its dedication to continuous improvement.