San Jose and Silicon Valley have Stanford and Lucile Packard — board-certified pediatric neuropsychology — plus the South Bay's only integrated Orton-Gillingham school and SJSU's training clinics. The hard part is finding the genuinely excellent help near you. This is San Jose's own credential-vetted directory of the best evaluators, schools, therapists, and doctors, plus free and low-cost options. 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.
Stanford Health Care's Neuropsychology Clinic — most of its neuropsychologists are board-certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology — provides comprehensive evaluations of memory, attention, language, and learning for children and teens.
The American Board of Professional Psychology's directory lists clinicians who passed board certification in clinical neuropsychology — the real credential to look for in a private evaluator near you.
The South Bay's only integrated Orton-Gillingham program (San Jose) for children with dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia — staff are Orton-Gillingham Academy certified, with a 4:1 ratio and time alongside general-education peers.
A Bay Area private school (Newark) dedicated to students with dyslexia and language-learning differences, using a structured multisensory (Slingerland / Orton-Gillingham) approach. Confirm grade levels and current openings.
The Academy's directory lists accredited Orton-Gillingham practitioners — the gold-standard credential for a private dyslexia tutor near you in the South Bay.
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 San Jose families — listed in the Behavioral Health Center of Excellence directory, the real quality bar for choosing ABA.
For more options, the BHCOE directory lists accredited ABA providers across San Jose (such as Behavior Frontiers and The Reilly Behavioral Group) — the field's real quality standard.
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.
Stanford Medicine Children's Health's developmental-behavioral pediatricians — board-certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in DBP — provide comprehensive assessments for milestones, behavior, autism, and complex ADHD.
The Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates' directory lists active, vetted special-education advocates and attorneys serving the San Jose / Silicon Valley area — the field's real professional standard.
The Law Foundation of Silicon Valley provides free legal help to children with disabilities and their families — including special-education and school-access matters — for income-eligible San Jose families.
San Jose State University's training clinic (KACCD) provides low-cost speech, language, and hearing evaluation and therapy for children, delivered by supervised student clinicians.
For children birth to 3, California's Early Start program provides developmental evaluations and therapies at free or sliding-scale cost — the earliest, no-barrier place to start.
Federally funded and free — they help California families understand their rights, the IEP/504 process, evaluations, and meetings. A great first call.
California'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 Jose 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 Jose providers from the vetted directory above.
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