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As Our Clients Grow, So Do We!

September 10, 2018 by ITA Staff Leave a Comment

ITA’s Music Program Gets a New Name ITA and Silverado partnered this past year to run the Bridging Memory through Music program at Silverado’s Morton Grove location. Recently, Silverado published a video about the program and collaboration that features ITA’s Jenni Rook and Northwestern University’s Dr. Borna Bonakdarpour. Take a look, as the video highlights […]

Filed Under: Resources Tagged With: creative arts therapies, Dr. Borna Bonakdarpour, ITA, music therapy, Musical Bridges to Memory, Northwestern University, Silverado

ITA Introduces CBT/DBT Art Therapy Group for Teens

May 10, 2018 by ITA Staff Leave a Comment

Adolescents Invited to Step into Spring with Training in Eight New Skills This spring, ITA is proud to offer a one-of-a-kind skills training art therapy group that will cater to teens who endure anxiety, quick changes in mood, and strong emotional states. What are CBT and DBT Skills? Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) skills use problem-solving […]

Filed Under: Events, Resources Tagged With: adolescents, art therapy, cbt, cognitive behavior therapy, creative arts therapies, dbt, dialectical behavor therapy, Evanston, group therapy, ITA, Marni Rosen, skills, spring, teens, training

Affordable Colleges Online Supports New Perspective for Autism Awareness

April 3, 2018 by ITA Staff Leave a Comment

Resource Website Releases Guide to Prepare Parents and Students with ASD for Higher Education Affordable Colleges Online, a resource website with the two primary goals to make college more affordable and spread the importance of accreditation, has celebrated this year’s perspective on National Autism Awareness Month: April 2018 adopts a focus on ensuring acceptance and […]

Filed Under: Resources Tagged With: AC Online, Affordable Colleges Online, ASD, Asperger's, autism, Autism Awareness, autism spectrum disorder, Dr. Crystal I. Lee, Dr. Darren Sush, family, going to college, guide, higher education, resource

Groundbreakers: Music for the Mind

June 12, 2017 by ITA Staff Leave a Comment

ITA Collaborative Music Program Promotes Connection Among Dementia Residents and Families The Institute for Therapy through the Arts Music for the Mind program is well underway after two years of planning, training, and music programming. Beginning with a year of planning in 2014, Music for the Mind was born on Symphony of Evanston’s Memory Care […]

Filed Under: Resources Tagged With: creative arts therapies, dementia, Evanston, family, Institute for Therapy through the Arts, ITA, jeffrey wolfe, memory care and dementia support, music, music for the mind, music therapy, symphony of evanston

On the CASE: Evanston Newsletter Turns on Fountain of Knowledge for Spring

April 20, 2017 by ITA Staff Leave a Comment

Citizens for Appropriate Special Education Shares Helpful Information for IEP Season It’s IEP season, that time of year when teachers and parents meet to discuss the oncoming year’s Individualized Education Plan. With an enormous amount of content being dealt with at the heart of addressing children’s educational wellbeings, IEP season can sometimes be stress-inducing. Evanston’s […]

Filed Under: Resources Tagged With: CASE, Citizens for Appropriate Special Education, Evanston, iep, individualized education plan, ITA, special education, spring

Demystifying the Spectrum: March Presentations Will Provide Understanding for Children with Behavioral Challenges

March 2, 2017 by ITA Staff Leave a Comment

Professionals Scheduled to Give Parents Insight on Advocating within the Public School System Are you the parent of a child with behavioral challenges? Are you interested in learning about new ways to support your child and how to advocate for her within the public school system? Join representatives from Autism Speaks, Spectrum Toy Store, Center […]

Filed Under: Resources Tagged With: aba, autism, autism speaks, behavior plans, center for autism and related disorders, colleen shinn, demystifying the spectrum, erin liebman inc., everdine vangalen, iep, jamilah rahim, special needs, spectrum toy store, workshop

Music Therapy Helps Reduce Child and Adolescent Depression – Study

January 4, 2017 by ITA Staff Leave a Comment

Findings Also Show Music Therapy Improved Communication and Interaction Skills From the Economic Times: “Music therapy may help to reduce depression in children and adolescents with behavioural and emotional problems, finds a study. The researchers involved 251 children and young people for the study and found that children and young persons, aged 8-16 years, who […]

Filed Under: Articles, Resources Tagged With: adolescents, children, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, music, music therapy, research, study, therapy

Affordable Care Act Navigators at Evanston Library

December 7, 2016 by ITA Staff Leave a Comment

Free Opportunity for Affordable Care Act Information and Guidance through the Illinois Insurance Marketplace The Evanston Public Library is hosting Certified Affordable Care Act (ACA) Navigators each Friday, 1-5PM, throughout December and January. Certified ACA Navigators from the Patient Innovation Center will provide enrollment assistance and information about health insurance coverage options available through GetCoveredIllinois, […]

Filed Under: Resources Tagged With: aca, affordable care act, Downtown Evanston, Evanston, evanston public library, get covered illinois, Insurance, library, marketplace, patient innovation center

Rush University Medical Center Begins Autism Study on Social Skills

November 30, 2016 by ITA Staff Leave a Comment

From the Huffington Post: “The Autism Assessment Research Treatment AND Services (AARTS) Center is now offering a unique study of oxytocin and social skills groups. In this study, we are pairing oxytocin, a hormone thought to improve social learning in individuals with ASD, and an empirically supported social cognitive therapy curriculum (NETT: Nonverbal synchrony, Emotion […]

Filed Under: Resources Tagged With: ASD, autism, children, huffington post, oxytocin, Rush University Medical Center, social play, social skills, special needs, The Autism Assessment Research Treatment AND Services (AARTS) Center

Columbia College Chicago Presents Deaf Awareness Day

September 15, 2016 by ITA Staff Leave a Comment

Part of International Deaf Awareness Week, Presented by the American Sign Language Department at Columbia College Chicago On Wednesday, September 28, from 10am-3pm, Columbia College Chicago’s Department of American Sign Language (ASL) will host Deaf Awareness Day, showcasing agencies and businesses with community resources for Deaf, Deaf-Blind, Hard of Hearing, Late Deafened and Interpreters. Location: […]

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