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The Knights of Columbus Developmental Center at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital supports children with autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders in reaching their highest potential through comprehensive evaluation, care, family guidance, education and innovative research. With continuous funding provided through Missouri Columbian Charities,  Illinois State Council, Missouri and Illinois Local Councils and generous individual contributions, the center was opened in 1981. It was the first in the region dedicated to children with intellectual developmental disorders. In 2007, the Knights of Columbus Developmental Center was designated as a Missouri Autism Center by the Missouri Department of Mental Health. 

Developmental Center

In 2014, Autism Speaks named the center one of the 14 Autism Treatment Network sites in the U.S. and Canada.      

Over the past two decades, increased understanding of the complex function of the brain allows them to identify a child’s developmental disorder at an early age, resulting in appropriate educational and early intervention programs, enabling a child to reach his or her fullest potential.    

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