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Owned and operated by a
Developmental Therapist with
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About Eb Pediatric Resources
We offer evaluations, consultations, developmental interventions, playgroups/classes, family counseling/training workshops, and Therapeutic Play Interactions ™ for children age birth through five years (specialists in child development work with you and your child in your own home using directed play interactions designed to enhance your child’s development.)
Contact info: Tel. 312-458-9865
Email: ebpr@att.net
EbPediatric Resources is intended to be a resource for parents of both typically and atypically developing children in the Chicago area. It is owned and operated by a Developmental Therapist with over 15 years experience working with children with developmental delays or disabilities.
The founder, Elizabeth Benney, is also a certified Infant Massage Instructor, and state-credentialed Evaluator for the Illinois Early Intervention Program. She is the founder of the Illinois Developmental Therapy Association and an Executive Committee Member on the Local Interagency Council (LIC#2.) She earned her graduate degree from University of Chicago and is currently working with graduate schools in the Chicago area to provide Child Development graduates and interns with supervised clinical experience and training as developmental therapists serving the Chicago population, providing services in the natural environment of the home.
Summary of Professional Experience
Elizabeth Benney, MA, DT, CIMI
elizbenney@pediatricresources.org
- State-credentialed Evaluator and Developmental Therapist for the Illinois Early Intervention Program (EI Provider since 1998)
- Specializations:
- IAIM Certified Infant Massage Instructor
- Listening Therapy (“Core/Listening with the Whole Body”)
- ABA and Greenspan’s Floor Time Approach
- Therapy for the Visually Impaired
- Social-Emotional/Infant Mental Health
- Professional Affiliations:
- Founder and Past President, Illinois Developmental Therapy Association
- Executive Committee, Local Interagency Council (LIC#2)
- Member:
- International Association of Infant Massage
- American Association for Home-Based Early Interventionists
- Illinois Association for Infant Mental Health
- Illinois Neonatal Developmental Follow-up Association
- International Family Therapy Association
- Clinical experience: (birth to three)
- PDD-NOS, Autism/Asperger/Hyperlexia
- ADD/ADHD
- Sensory Integration Dysfunction
- Brain disorders (Encephalopathy/Epilepsy/Hydrocephalus)
- Genetic/Chromosomal disorders (e.g. Down syndrome, Fragile X)
- Micro-premature and medically fragile infants
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and infants with prenatal drug exposure
- Vision or hearing impaired
- Behavioral and/or environmental challenges
- Adoption from foreign country
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