Chicago Area Resources
DOWN SYNDROME CLINICS
Pediatric Clinics
Loyola University:
www.luhs.org/programs/downsyn.htm
Lutheran General Hospital:
www.advocatehealth.com/lgch/services/centers/index-orig.html
University of Chicago:
www.larabida.org/program_details.asp?ID=7
Teenagers and Adults
Adult Down Syndrome Center, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital: www.advocatehealth.com/luth/services/other/adsc/
DOWN SYNDROME PARENT SUPPORT GROUPS
Western Suburbs:
West Suburban Parent Support Group:
www.wspsg.com
Southwest Suburbs:
Down Syndrome Support:
www.dssupport.net
Northwest Suburbs:
United Parent Support for Down Syndrome:
www.upsfordowns.org
Lake County/Northern Suburbs:
Down Syndrome Development Counsel:
http://www.TheDDC.org/
PLAY
Lekotek Centers in IL:
www.lekotek.org/lekotek.asp?selState=Illinois
Gigi’s Playhouse:
Hoffman Estates, IL: www.gigisplayhouse.com
Plainfield, IL: www.gigisplayhousetoo.com
RESPITE CARE
Metropolitan Chicago Area:
- Coachcare Center:
www.coachcarecenter.org - Illinois Department of Human Services:
www.dhs.state.il.us/ors/hsp/index.asp - Jewish Children’s Bureau of Chicago:
www.jcbchicago.org/pages/cli-cccts-respite.html - Lutheran Social Services:
www.lssi.org/lssiPublic/publicsite/bhs_detail.asp#disability - Misericordia:
www.misericordia.com
City of Chicago:
- NIA Comprehensive Center for Developmental Disabilities:
www.niapurpose.org/respite.html
City of Chicago/Near West Side:
- El Valor Corporation:
www.elvalor.org
South Side Chicago:
- Abraham Lincoln Centre:
www.abrahamlincolncentre.org/programs/
residential_services.html - South Chicago Parents and Friends of Retarded Children:
www.scpfrc.org
Southwest Chicago and Suburbs:
- Chicago Association for Retarded Citizens:
www.chgoarc.org
South Suburbs:
- New Hope Center:
www.newhopecenterinc.com
North Side Chicago/Northwest:
- Anixter Center:
www.anixter.org/ASSISTIV.HTM - Association House:
https://secure.digitalcommunity.com/english/
associationhouse.org/about_us/what_we_do/
behavioral_health.html
North Shore:
- Glenkirk:
www.glenkirk.org/support.html
Northern Cook County/Lake County:
- Countryside Association for the Handicapped:
www.countrysideassn.org
McHenry County:
- Pioneer Center of McHenry County:
www.pioneercenter.org/OOS.ASP
Western Suburban Cook County:
- Aspire Children’s Services:
www.aspireofillinois.org/fs_ttrp.asp - Community Support Services: www.communitysupportservices.org/about_us/
services.html?services_item=5177&db_item=listitem
DuPage and Western Suburbs:
- Little Friends, Inc.:
www.littlefriendsinc.com/inhome.asp - Our Children’s Homestead:
www.ourchildrenshomestead.org/programs.asp - Ray Graham Association:
www.ray-graham.org/?q=node/40
Kane and Kendall counties:
- Association for Individual Development:
www.the-association.org/programs/ddcm.html
Will, Grundy, and Kankakee Counties:
- Easter Seals:
www.joliet.easterseals.com - United Cerebral Palsy of Will County:
www.ucp.org/ucp_channelsub.cfm/1/11/51
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