Provides services for special needs children from birth to 12, needing behavior assessment and brief treatment for challenging behaviors, such as severe tantrums, aggression, and self injury.

Behavioral Health Services for Children offered at Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic at Children's Village

Provides outpatient behavioral health services for special needs children.

Programs that specialize in providing therapeutic interventions that utilize classical and operant conditioning techniques including positive and negative reinforcement, systematic desensitization, covert sensitization, relaxation training and aversion techniques to reduce or eliminate maladaptive behavior.

Behavior Modification

Programs that specialize in the treatment of children from infancy to age 12 who have adjustment problems, behavior problems, emotional disturbances, a personality disorder or incipient mental illness.

Child Guidance

Programs that offer simple tests that people who are concerned about their emotional health can take to learn more about their symptoms and ways of coping with them. Individuals generally have an opportunity to see a film and/or hear a talk about the causes, symptoms and treatment of specific mental health conditions; complete a screening questionnaire; and talk about the results with a mental health professional. People who show signs of a disorder are encouraged to seek further evaluation and, potentially, treatment. Most mental health screenings are confidential and available at no cost. Mental health screenings may also be available by telephone or online.

Mental Health Screening

Provides a highly structured and individualized treatment plan and therapies to address the uniqueness of children's needs. 
Therapy focuses on identifying the function of the a behavior, combined with examining the environment to develop a plan for behavior modification. 
Staff includes a Pediatric Neuropsychologist, Speech Therapist, Physical Therapist, and a certified Teacher.

Autism Applied Behavior Analysis Therapy (ABA) offered at Children's Developmental Center

Provides a highly structured and individualized treatment plan and therapies to address the uniqueness of children's needs.

Programs that offer any of a variety of therapeutic interventions, which may be used singly or in combination, to address the range of social, language, sensory and behavioral difficulties experienced by children and adults with autism and related disorders. Because of the spectrum nature of autism and the many behavior combinations that can occur, treatment approaches must be tailored to meet the individual needs of each person. Included are behavioral and communication development approaches, specialized curricula and sensory integration; biomedical and dietary treatments including psychiatric medications, vitamins and minerals (such as Vitamin B6, magnesium and essential fatty acids), treatment using the hormone secretin and special diets; and various complementary therapies such as music, art or equestrian, speech, physical or occupational which may be used on an individual basis or integrated into an educational program.

Autism Therapy

Programs that specialize in providing therapeutic interventions that are based on the theory developed primarily by Alfred Bandura that the development, maintenance and modification of behavior can be explained in terms of operant and classical conditioning in combination with cognitive mediational processes including vicarious learning.  Therapy techniques to reduce or eliminate maladaptive behavior include role modeling, role playing and behavioral rehearsal.