Kids

Child Youth Study Center Mission Statement

Consistent with other Centers for Excellence nationwide, the Center on Disabilities and Human Development has implemented a clinical service center to address a regional lack of comprehensive assessments, consultations and treatment for children, services that historically have been available only in Seattle or Portland. The University of Idaho Child and Youth Study Center, under the direction of W. Rand Walker, Ph.D., is operated in conjunction with a number of clinicians and faculty from both the University of Idaho and Washington State University. The clinical center focuses on delivering direct services to children and families presenting with more severe behavioral disorders, pervasive developmental disorders, learning disabilities and other mental illnesses impeding normal development. These services are made available to families and agencies with limited resources at a cost determined according to the individual needs and ability to pay. Reflective of the CDHD’s mission to provide training, the program is staffed primarily by advanced doctoral students from the respective universities and supervised by faculty Drs. Tim Rehnberg, Len Burns, Tom Trotter and Brian McNeill, with numerous faculty consultants assisting on specific cases. Over the next five years, the goals for the center include establishing more comprehensive services, including interdisciplinary approaches to case coordination and treatment implementation, advanced training for providers and parents, including the development of specialized skills for chronic disabling conditions. Additional goals will encompass specialty clinics that rotate into the region for team consultations and individual staffing, and empirically supported treatments for a variety of conditions related to developmental delays, educational impairment and children at risk. The University of Idaho Child and Youth Study Center continues to provide a resource that ensures that Idaho residents with developmental disabilities, pervasive developmental disorders and other chronic disabling conditions are identified and have local access to exemplary services, education and research.

The Child Youth Study Center is a unit of the Center on Disabilities and Human Development within the College of Education at the University of Idaho.

The Center on Disabilities and Human Development is a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities within the national network of the Association of University Centers on Disabilities.

Center on Disabilities and Human Development

College of Education

University of Idaho

Association of University Centers on Disabilities