San Antonio is a deeply bilingual city, and culturally responsive, Spanish-speaking help matters here. This is San Antonio's own directory, ranked by real credentials (ABPP, BHCOE, Orton-Gillingham accreditation, COPAA, board-certification) — never by reviews or who pays — with bilingual and Spanish-speaking options flagged throughout. Start with the free Texas options, 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, Texas ECI provides developmental evaluations and therapies on a sliding scale — no child is turned away for inability to pay. In San Antonio, Any Baby Can and other agencies deliver ECI. The earliest, no-barrier place to start.
Texas's federally mandated protection & advocacy agency — free legal information, a special-education helpline, and representation when a child's rights are denied (Spanish available). A powerful free resource.
Texas's federally funded Parent Training and Information Center — free help understanding your rights, the IEP/ARD/504 process, evaluations, and meetings. A great first call.
UT Health San Antonio's neuropsychology program — board-certified faculty Jeremy Davis, PsyD, ABPP and A. Campbell Sullivan, PsyD, ABPP — serves Latinx and Spanish-speaking communities with bilingual evaluations for learning, attention, and neurodevelopmental conditions.
Gilbert Martinez, PhD, ABPP-CN — board-certified in clinical neuropsychology — provides comprehensive private evaluations for learning disabilities, ADHD, and autism in San Antonio.
A multidisciplinary San Antonio team (neuropsychologists, psychometrists, counselors) offering specialized bilingual (English/Spanish) neuropsychological services. Confirm the evaluator's ABPP board certification when you book.
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, instead of trusting star ratings.
Since 1985, The Winston School San Antonio has provided college-prep education to bright students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, ADHD, and language-based learning differences — ISAS-accredited, an IDA member, with an 8:1 ratio.
The Autism Treatment Center provides school and therapeutic services for children and adults with autism in San Antonio — a long-standing Texas nonprofit serving the lifespan.
Navigate Life Texas (a state resource, in English and Spanish) helps families find special-education schools, services, and supports across San Antonio — the verified way to locate the right placement.
The Academy's directory lists accredited Orton-Gillingham practitioners across San Antonio — the gold-standard credential for a private dyslexia tutor, verified by training rather than advertising (Winston SA is an IDA member school).
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 multidisciplinary San Antonio clinic offering ABA, occupational therapy, and speech therapy together for children with autism and developmental delays (ages 18 months–12).
A BHCOE-accredited ABA provider with multiple San Antonio centers (Stone Oak and more) — center- and home-based applied behavior analysis for autistic children, accredited for clinical quality.
The Behavioral Health Center of Excellence directory lists accredited ABA providers across San Antonio (such as Centria Healthcare and Behavior Frontiers) — ask each about Spanish-speaking, culturally responsive staff.
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 (filter for bilingual).
UT Health San Antonio's Section of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics (with University Health) — board-certified developmental pediatricians diagnose and treat autism, ADHD, developmental delay, and learning concerns, and help families advocate for services.
Clarity Child Guidance Center is South Texas's only nonprofit mental-health treatment center for children ages 3–17 — diagnosis and care for the emotional and behavioral needs that often accompany autism, ADHD, and learning disabilities.
The Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates' directory lists active, vetted special-education advocates and attorneys serving San Antonio (some bilingual, such as 101 Advocacy) — the field's real professional standard.
A Texas special-education law firm advocating for IEPs and resolving district disputes — IDEA, Section 504, ARD representation, and due process for San Antonio families.
TRLA provides free civil legal help (including some special-education matters) to income-eligible San Antonio families, with Spanish-speaking staff — a no-cost route to legal assistance.
Our Lady of the Lake University's Harry Jersig Center provides speech, language, and hearing evaluation and therapy in English and Spanish at no or low cost — supervised graduate clinicians on OLLU's west-side campus.
Any Baby Can provides services at no cost regardless of income to San Antonio families with a child (birth–17) who has a chronic illness, disability, or developmental delay — case management, autism services, and ECI.
For children birth to 3, Texas ECI provides developmental evaluations and therapies on a sliding scale — the earliest, no-barrier place to start, with no child turned away for inability to pay.
Federally funded and free — they help Texas families understand their rights, the IEP/504 process, evaluations, and meetings. A great first call.
Texas's protection & advocacy agency — free legal-rights information and help if your child's rights are being denied.
A short message — your child, your San Antonio 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 San Antonio providers from the vetted directory above.
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