The Wasatch Front around Salt Lake City covers far more than downtown — West Valley City, Sandy, West Jordan, Murray, Draper, Taylorsville, plus Davis County (Layton, Bountiful), Weber County (Ogden), and into Utah County (Lehi, Orem). This directory is built so a family ANYWHERE along the Wasatch Front can find genuinely excellent help nearby, not just options clustered downtown. It's ranked by real credentials (ABPP, BHCOE, Orton-Gillingham/Wilson accreditation, COPAA, board-certification) — never by reviews or who pays. Start with the free Utah options (Baby Watch serves your area through a local program), then the best evaluators, schools, therapists, doctors, and advocates near you. Then, if you want it, an expert reads your child's records and builds your plan.
We don't rank by star ratings — they're noisy and easy to game. Every group below earns its place by credentials: board certification, school accreditation, professional licensure, and standing in the field's real professional bodies. The honest bar, not the loudest reviews.
For children birth to 3, Utah's Baby Watch provides free developmental evaluation and early-intervention services (speech, OT, PT, developmental) through a network of local programs — so a family in Ogden, Sandy, or Lehi reaches a program near them. The earliest, no-barrier place to start.
Utah's federally mandated protection & advocacy agency — free legal information and advocacy when a child's special-education rights are denied, available statewide at no charge. A powerful free resource before you pay anyone.
Utah's federally funded Parent Training and Information Center (since 1984) — free training, information, and IEP Coaches who help you prepare for and even attend IEP meetings, staffed largely by parents of children with disabilities. A great first call from anywhere in Utah.
University of Utah Health and Primary Children's Hospital provide neuropsychological and psycho-educational testing for learning disabilities, ADHD, and autism — access assessment through their ARCS (Assessment, Referral, and Consultation) service. The Wasatch Front's leading academic pediatric program.
A Salt Lake City private practice led by Sam Goldstein, PhD — a board-certified, nationally known pediatric neuropsychologist — offering comprehensive evaluation for autism, ADHD, and learning disabilities. The credential to look for in a private evaluator.
The American Board of Professional Psychology's directory lists clinicians who passed board certification in clinical neuropsychology — the credential to verify in any private evaluator (in Davis, Weber, or Utah County), instead of trusting star ratings.
The Reid School (Salt Lake City) teaches students with dyslexia and learning disabilities using a structured, research-based reading and language method — a long-established specialized option for the Wasatch Front.
The Carmen B. Pingree Autism Center of Learning (Salt Lake City) provides comprehensive education and treatment for children with autism from preschool through secondary — CARF-accredited, with parent training and sibling support. One of Utah's premier autism schools.
A tuition-free public charter focused on students on the autism spectrum, Spectrum Academy has campuses in North Salt Lake, Pleasant Grove, and the south valley (Sandy/West Jordan area) plus St. George and Orem — so families on different sides of the Wasatch Front have a nearby option, with licensed teachers, therapists, and behavior specialists.
The Utah Parent Center's consultants can help you compare additional Wasatch Front school options for dyslexia, autism, and learning differences at no cost — vetted, statewide guidance from Utah's parent center.
Kathy Tenney, M.Ed., is a Certified Academic Language Therapist (CALT) and Qualified Instructor (QI) — the level that trains other therapists — credentialed through Texas Scottish Rite. Her Salt Lake City (Avenues) practice, Dyslexia Therapy Utah, delivers structured-literacy dyslexia therapy using Take Flight and other Orton-Gillingham-based programs.
The Academy's directory lists accredited Orton-Gillingham practitioners across the Wasatch Front — searchable by area so you can find one near Sandy, Layton, Ogden, or wherever you live. The gold-standard credential for a private dyslexia tutor.
A huge audiobook/highlighting library — free for students with a qualifying reading disability, so your child keeps up with grade-level books while they learn to decode.
A BHCOE-accredited ABA provider serving the Salt Lake area — research-based applied behavior analysis (verbal behavior, natural-environment teaching, and more) for autistic children, accredited for clinical quality rather than chosen by ad spend.
The Behavioral Health Center of Excellence directory lists accredited ABA providers across the Wasatch Front — searchable by zip so a family in West Valley, Draper, Layton, or Provo can find the nearest accredited center instead of the one that advertises most.
A pediatric clinic in Murray (Salt Lake County) providing family-centered, play-based speech-language pathology and occupational therapy — also serving charter, private, and community early-childhood programs across the valley.
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's directory lists speech-language pathologists who hold the CCC-SLP — the national mark of a fully qualified clinician, searchable anywhere along the Wasatch Front.
The American Occupational Therapy Association helps you find licensed occupational therapists (OTR/L) for sensory, fine-motor, and daily-living support — a credential to verify alongside speech and ABA care.
University of Utah Health and Primary Children's Hospital provide developmental-behavioral pediatric diagnosis and care — including the Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinic — for autism, ADHD, and developmental concerns, by board-certified specialists serving the whole Wasatch Front.
The American Academy of Pediatrics' directory helps you find board-certified developmental-behavioral pediatricians across the Salt Lake metro — the credential to verify for a formal autism or ADHD diagnosis.
The Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates' directory lists active, vetted special-education advocates and attorneys serving the Salt Lake metro — the field's real professional standard.
Beyond information, the Utah Parent Center's IEP Coaches help you prepare for — and when possible attend — IEP meetings at no cost. A respected free alternative to hiring a private advocate first, available anywhere in Utah.
Utah Legal Services provides free civil legal help to income-eligible families across the state — a no-cost route to legal assistance, including some education and benefits matters.
The University of Utah's Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic provides low-cost speech-language evaluation and therapy for children of all ages — including those with autism, Down syndrome, and developmental disabilities — delivered by graduate clinicians under licensed, ASHA-certified supervisors.
The Autism Council of Utah is a free statewide network connecting families to vetted autism resources, services, and referrals across the Wasatch Front — a no-cost way to find what's near you alongside clinical care.
For children birth to 3, Utah's Baby Watch provides free developmental evaluations and early-intervention therapies through a local program near you — the earliest, no-barrier place to start.
Federally funded and free — they help Utah families understand their rights, the IEP/504 process, evaluations, and meetings. A great first call.
Utah's protection & advocacy agency — free legal-rights information and help if your child's rights are being denied.
A short message — your child, your Salt Lake City district, and what you're facing. We set up a secure way to share the IEP.
We review the records against your rights and match your child to the right Salt Lake City providers from the vetted directory above.
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