Little Friends Center for Autism
Services for Professionals

For more than 40 years, Little Friends, Inc. has been providing services for children and adults with disabilities. In that time, the agency has grown to serve more than 800 people each year through 14 direct service programs, including early intervention, alternative schools, in-home support, vocational training, and community-based residential services. Little Friends has also become widely recognized as a leader in serving children with autism. 

Drawing on that day-to-day experience, the Little Friends Center for Autism is pleased to be able to share our expertise with other professionals who serve children with autism and their families.   

Consultation Services

Consultants from the Little Friends Center for Autism are available to meet with you or your staff and provide consultation regarding a particular student, students or classroom. 

Training & Workshops

The LFCA offers a variety of workshops to train your staff in specific techniques, methodologies, or skill areas for teaching children with autism. To download a list of our training descriptions, please click here.

Topics include:

• Bus Driver Training: Understanding Children with Autism and Developmental Disabilities
• Characteristics and Behavioral Issues in Individuals with Asperger’s Syndrome
• Communication Training
• Communicative Functions of Behavior
• Discrete Trial
• Helping Individuals Improve Eating & Sleeping Routines
• Helping Individuals Improve Grooming & Bathing Routines
• New & Practical Ways of Thinking about Sensory Issues
• Organizational Supports for High-Functioning Autism
• Parent’s Perspective
• Positive Proactive Programming for Individuals with Behavior Problems
• Sensory Processing
• Social Language Strategies Workshop
• Structured Teaching (TEACCH)
• Teaching Independent Skills Using Nonverbal Prompts
• Teaching Personal Boundaries to Individuals with Autism
• Teaching Play Skills with Board Games to Children with Autism
• Testing Children with Autism Using Visual Supports
• Toilet Training: Using Visual Supports
• Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorders & Successful Treatment Strategies
• Visual Strategies
• Walk in My Autism

Our highly-trained team of professionals conducts trainings each month at our Naperville location, however we will work with your organization to schedule and host a training for your employees at your location. Workshops are also routinely held at the agency's Lifeskills Training Center for Children with Autism in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.

For more information or to inquire about scheduling a workshop, please contact the Little Friends Center for Autism at (630) 305-4196.