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Provides psychological and psychiatric evaluations, ongoing medication management, diagnostic assessments, as well as individual, family, and group counseling, for individuals who have a diagnosis of Autism.

Provides academic instruction to students within the autism spectrum in kindergarten through age 21. Groups students according to academic achievement, language ability, learning capacity, and relational development; and regroups students according to their strengths and weaknesses in each subject. Conducts classes in small groups of four or less, in close proximity to each other to foster opportunities to develop familiarity and comfort. Services include speech and occupational therapies.

Intensive Behavioral Health Services provide clinical services in the home, school, or community setting using Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA). Includes Mobile Therapy, Therapeutic Staff Support and Behavioral Specialists.

Provides an on-site therapeutic program for children and adolescents with an autism spectrum disorder.

Provides academic and emotional support to schoolchildren with Autism Spectrum Disorder in their home school districts. Focuses on individual intensive teaching, maintenance/generalization/flexibility, expressive/receptive skill building, natural environment teaching, independent skill building, daily living skill development, play skills training, social emotion skill building, and vocational skill building. Develops and implements individual education plans. Provides transition services for students age 14+ as they approach graduation.

Home and Community-Based Autism services are provided to children ranging in age from early childhood to twenty-one, using a tiered approach. For pre-school children, Friendship House offers an intensive behavioral intervention home-based program that focuses on increasing basic learning and language skills. For school-aged children, interventions may include Direct Service Professional support in school, to help the individual learn appropriate adaptive behaviors and decrease behavioral symptoms that may impede learning. In addition, home programming may also be a component of a childâs treatment plan. Home programming for school-aged children typically involves increasing daily living, and socialization while also decreasing maladaptive behaviors. Other individuals on the Spectrum may benefit from interventions that are based in the community in which they live to encourage and utilize services/resources available to all of members of our society.

Our team of specialists focuses on early intervention and a combination of school and home-based care that can reduce symptoms and promote growth and development.

Provides psychological and psychiatric evaluations, ongoing medication management, diagnostic assessments, as well as individual, family, and group counseling, for individuals who have a diagnosis of Autism.

Offers outpatient behavioral healthcare services including: Individual, marital, family, and group therapy Specialized services for children and adolescents Women's services Eating disorders treatment Psychiatric evaluations Medication management Psychological testing Treatment is provided by psychiatrists, psychologists, and licensed clinical social workers and licensed marriage and family therapists.

Offers outpatient behavioral healthcare services including: Individual, marital, family, and group therapy Specialized services for children and adolescents Women's services Eating disorders treatment Psychiatric evaluations Medication management Psychological testing Treatment is provided by psychiatrists, psychologists, and licensed clinical social workers and licensed marriage and family therapists.

Provides academic and emotional support to schoolchildren with Autism Spectrum Disorder in their home school districts. Focuses on individual intensive teaching, maintenance/generalization/flexibility, expressive/receptive skill building, natural environment teaching, independent skill building, daily living skill development, play skills training, social emotion skill building, and vocational skill building. Develops and implements individual education plans. Provides transition services for students age 14+ as they approach graduation.

Therapy is provided in home and community to strengthen relationships and problem-solving skills.

Offers outpatient behavioral healthcare services including:

• Individual, marital, family, and group therapy
• Specialized services for children and adolescents
• Women's services
• Eating disorders treatment
• Psychiatric evaluations
• Medication management
• Psychological testing
• Autism Diagnosis and evaluation
• Developmental Disorder Diagnosis and Evaluation

Treatment is provided by psychiatrists, psychologists, and licensed clinical social workers and licensed marriage and family therapists.

Provides treatment programs designed to reduce the symptoms of autism. Treatment focuses on clients' communication, interaction, change and transitions, behaviors and responses, social competencies, and sensory processing.

Behavioral health program focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of behavioral social and emotional problems in individuals with developmental disorders. Services include:

• Diagnosis/Evaluation
• Treatment
• Team Approach
• Individual and family counseling
• Medication management
• Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services (BHRS)
• Psychotherapy
• Anger management
• Summer Therapeutic Activities Program (STAP)
• Early Intervention fast track 0-3 years

Provides adult day programs and training, supportive employment services, children’s services-three approved private schools, medical rehabilitation, camp and respite programs, and residential and veterans’ services. The essential tools and resources provided enable individuals with disabilities to live their best life.

Provides an on-site therapeutic program for children and adolescents with an autism spectrum disorder.

Offers hearing evaluations, hearing aids, hearing aid counseling, and the Hear Now Program for low income individuals, as well as outpatient speech evaluations and speech therapy.

Provides diagnostic evaluations for individuals ages 2 through adulthood suspected of having autism spectrum disorder.

Offers outpatient behavioral healthcare services including: Individual, marital, family, and group therapy Specialized services for children and adolescents Women's services Eating disorders treatment Psychiatric evaluations Medication management Psychological testing Treatment is provided by psychiatrists, psychologists, and licensed clinical social workers and licensed marriage and family therapists.

Offering monthly meetings designed to build connections and support families with autism, as well as in-home supports to assist adults with autism to live in their own homes by providing additional supports, as outlined in the Adult Autism Waiver.

Provides an environment in which to teach and strengthen positive social skills development. Facilities include a sensory room, gross motor room and model apartment. Students with autism thrive when education is creatively tailored to individual learning styles and the environment is responsive to sensory differences.

Offers Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) therapy coaching for parents of children with autism throughout northeast Pennsylvania. ABA is a type of therapy that helps improve communication and social interactions, develop new skills, and support positive behavior. Families can receive a free, one-on-one consultation with a Board Certified Behavior Analyst that includes six one-hour long sessions: (1) Introduction to ABA; (2) Learn what autism is and how it relates to ABA; (3) Verbal behaviors and communication strategies; (4) The basics of ABCs and the functions of behavior; (5) ABA techniques for common behaviors; and (6) A personalized plan of available services. All coaching sessions are done through a secure online platform using videoconferencing. The program is provided at no cost to families thanks to funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

The Center's Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) program is a center-based program for children ages 2 to 6. The program offers full-day state-of-the-art intensive and comprehensive treatment based on the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis. The staff to child ratio is one-to-one. Children who are candidates for Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) have been diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) including Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Asperger's Disorder, Rhett's Disorder and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder.

Helps children with autism achieve the next level of independence based on their unique needs and strengths.