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 […]
ITA Introduces CBT/DBT Art Therapy Group for Teens
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 […]
Affordable Colleges Online Supports New Perspective for Autism Awareness
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 […]
Groundbreakers: Music for the Mind
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 […]
On the CASE: Evanston Newsletter Turns on Fountain of Knowledge for Spring
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 […]
Demystifying the Spectrum: March Presentations Will Provide Understanding for Children with Behavioral Challenges
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 […]
Music Therapy Helps Reduce Child and Adolescent Depression – Study
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 […]
Affordable Care Act Navigators at Evanston Library
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, […]
Rush University Medical Center Begins Autism Study on Social Skills
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 […]
Columbia College Chicago Presents Deaf Awareness Day
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: […]