Tools and Resources

From Early Intervention to the transition to adulthood, we have informational materials that may help you care for children and youth with special needs.

• Office Lookup Locator by Zip Code and County: Find out which of our offices serves a county, or which of our Chicago-area offices serves a Cook County zip code.
• Pediatric to Adult Transition Toolkits: Developed by the American College of Physicians to facilitate more effective transition and transfer of young adults into health care settings.
• Got Transition/Center for Health Care Transition Improvement: A cooperative agreement between the Maternal and Child Health Bureau and The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health that aims to improve transition from pediatric to adult health care through the use of new and innovative strategies for health professionals and youth and families.
• Early Intervention Handbook for Providers: Provides information on the program policies, descriptions of services and billing codes for providers.
• Illinois Sound Beginnings: A parent-friendly website designed to provide information and resources to families of children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
• National Resource Center for Patient/Family-Centered Medical Home (NRC-PFCMH): A cooperative agreement between the Maternal and Child Health Bureau and the American Academy of Pediatrics. The NRC-PFCMH is focused on ensuring that all children and youth receive care within, and have access to, a medical home.
• Shared Plan of Care: A Tool to Support Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs and Their Families: A shared plan of care can help implement key functions of the medical home model for children and youth with special health care needs. The National Center for Medical Home Implementation, in collaboration with the National Academy for State Health Policy, created a fact sheet on key components of a shared plan of care, the role of families in creating and maintaining a shared plan of care and strategies state agencies can utilize to support implementation of a shared plan of care.
• Toolkit for Primary Care Providers: Health Care for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: This website provides best practice tools to help providers more readily serve adults with intellectual or other developmental disabilities.
• Web-Based Video on Communicating with Persons with Disabilities: This brief video was created by the National Service Inclusion Project and sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community Service.