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For Parents and Patients
Find Your Family Voices
Family Voices is a national family-led organization of families and friends of children and youth with special health care
needs (CYSHCN) and disabilities. There is a Family Voices in each State. These organizations provide one on one consultations,
resource and referral, and parent education on special health care and disability issues.
Utah Parent Center
A nonprofit organization that provides training, information, referral, and assistance to parents of children and youth with
all disabilities including physical, mental, hearing, vision, learning, behavioral, and emotional. Staff consists primarily
of parents of children and youth with disabilities.
Find Your Parent Center
Parent Centers provide education and referrals for families with a child who has a disability, as well as the professionals
who work with them. There are almost 100 Parent Training and Information Centers (PTIs) and Community Parent Resource Centers
(CPRCs) in the US states and Territories; Center for Parent Information & Resources.
Learn the Signs. Act Early (CDC)
Offers many tools, videos, lists, learning materials, and an app to track a child’s developmental milestones (ages 2 months
to 5 years) and act if concerned about progress; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Services for Patients & Families in Utah (UT)
Service Categories | # of providers* in: | UT | NW | Other states (4) (show) | | MT | NM | NV | RI |
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Audiology | 28 | 3 | 49 | 8 | 8 | 26 | |||
Developmental Assessments | 55 | 13 | 128 | 3 | 34 | ||||
Early Intervention for Children with Disabilities/Delays | 55 | 3 | 27 | 44 | 32 | 14 | |||
Genetic Testing and Counseling | 14 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 14 | 9 | |||
Local Support Groups, General | 72 | 3 | 16 | 3 | 55 | 10 | |||
Medical Genetics | 6 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 4 | |||
Newborn Screening Services | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
Occupational Therapy | 38 | 43 | 38 | 27 | 15 | ||||
Physical Therapy | 51 | 48 | 33 | 30 | 5 |
For services not listed above, browse our Services categories or search our database.
* number of provider listings may vary by how states categorize services, whether providers are listed by organization or individual, how services are organized in the state, and other factors; Nationwide (NW) providers are generally limited to web-based services, provider locator services, and organizations that serve children from across the nation.