Local resources in Greensboro
Ordered by review count, then name. Providers cannot pay to be listed, ranked, or edited.
18 resources in Greensboro
1. ABS Kids — Greensboro
Assessment and therapy from the same provider, with a choice of home or centre — which shortens the route for a family still waiting on a diagnosis.
Ages Ages not published in the sources we saw — ask when you call
2. Autism Learning Partners — Greensboro
Autism Learning Partners' Greensboro location names Medicaid among the plans it accepts, alongside most major commercial insurers.
Ages Ages not published in the sources we saw — ask when you call
3. Autism Society of North Carolina - Greensboro
Support groups in the Greensboro area link families into a statewide network of more than 80 groups, including Hispanic support groups, run by parent and family volunteers alongside autistic individuals. Guilford County appears on the organisation's group finder, and every page links to Spanish-language resources and school and IEP guidance.
Ages All ages
4. Behavioral Framework — Greensboro
Behavioral Framework combines evaluation and ABA therapy in one Greensboro clinic and continues working with clients up to age 21, well past the age many centres stop.
Ages Up to age 21
5. Centria — Life Skills Autism Academy, Greensboro
A centre-based programme close to the university district, part of a small North Carolina network rather than a one-off site.
Ages Ages not published in the sources we saw — ask when you call
6. Children's Developmental Services Agency — Greensboro
Early-intervention evaluations and services for infants and toddlers (birth to age 3) with developmental concerns. Part of North Carolina's statewide system.
Ages Birth to age 3
7. Children's Specialized ABA — Greensboro
A clinic that splits its day by age: preschool children in the daytime block, school-age children in a 5-to-7 after-school slot, so therapy does not have to come out of school hours.
Ages Ages not published in the sources we saw — ask when you call
8. Compleat Kidz — Greensboro
Compleat Kidz's Greensboro centre bundles ABA with speech, occupational and physical therapy, useful for families coordinating several services at once.
Ages Ages not published in the sources we saw — ask when you call
9. Cone Health Autism Spectrum Evaluation (LeBauer Behavioral Medicine)
Cone Health's behavioural-medicine practice runs gold-standard ADOS-2 autism evaluations for toddlers through adults, publishes exactly what the testing involves, and helps families use the results to unlock insurance-covered services afterwards.
Ages 18 months and up, including adults
10. Exceptional Children's Assistance Centre (ECAC)
Free training, information and workshops for parents of children with special education needs. Parent educator support available.
Ages All ages
11. Greensboro Parks and Recreation - Adaptive and Inclusive Recreation
Greensboro Parks and Recreation's Adaptive and Inclusive Recreation section runs leisure and recreation programmes for residents of all abilities, working to build skills, leisure awareness and community engagement. The city's F.A.I.R. programme offers income- and residency-based reduced fees, and the Parks Foundation's Send a Kid to Camp initiative provides need-based camp scholarships.
Ages All ages
12. Kind Behavioral Health — Greensboro
Kind Behavioral Health runs a dedicated Greensboro clinic serving Guilford County families.
Ages Ages not published in the sources we saw — ask when you call
13. Mosaic Pediatric Therapy — Greensboro
Mosaic's Greensboro clinic is a recent addition to its North Carolina network, so ask about current capacity given how new it is.
Ages Ages not published in the sources we saw — ask when you call
14. Piedmont Pediatric Dentistry
Paediatric dental care with experience working with children who have additional needs or dental anxiety.
Ages Children
15. Special Olympics Guilford County
Athletic training and competition across Olympic-type sports. No cost to athletes.
Ages Children and adults
16. Succeed ABA — Greensboro
Succeed ABA delivers therapy in the home across Greensboro rather than running a centre, and does not stop at early childhood.
Ages Ages not published in the sources we saw — ask when you call
17. TEACCH Autism Program — Greensboro Centre
Diagnostic evaluations for autism, with ongoing support and consultation available. Centre accommodates individuals across the lifespan.
Ages All ages
18. The Greensboro Center for Pediatric Dentistry
The Greensboro Center for Pediatric Dentistry treats infants, children and teens, including those with additional healthcare needs as defined by the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, and reserves specific appointment times for these patients for when the office and staff are ready to provide the required care.
Ages Infants, children and teens
The short answer for Greensboro
- Under 3: contact the Greensboro CDSA at 743-902-5400 to refer your child to North Carolina's Infant-Toddler Program. Referrals come from parents, doctors, or other caregivers, and no diagnosis is required to start.
- Age 3 and up: request an evaluation in writing through your school. Guilford County Schools' Exceptional Children division can be reached at 336-370-2323, with a parent liaison available at 336-271-5180 to help navigate the process.
- For a diagnostic evaluation, the UNC TEACCH Autism Program operates a Greensboro Center (919-966-1000) offering assessment, intervention, and consultation for autistic individuals across the lifespan.
- Medicaid behavioral health and the NC Innovations Waiver are both managed locally by Trillium Health Resources (1-877-685-2415) — the statewide waiver registry held close to 19,000 names as of a 2025 legislative filing.
- North Carolina funds ABA two ways: through a state insurance mandate that binds many private plans, and through NC Medicaid directly for enrolled children with an autism diagnosis.
Greensboro sits in Guilford County, at the center of the Piedmont Triad, and the systems a family here relies on run through the same statewide framework used across North Carolina: a county-level agency for early intervention before age 3, a school district Child Find duty after that, and a regional public authority managing Medicaid behavioral health and the state's oversubscribed autism waiver.
This page maps that framework onto Guilford County specifically — the CDSA that handles early referrals, the districts around Greensboro with Child Find duties, a UNC diagnostic center based in the city, and the Medicaid system families rely on for longer-term support — with every fact sourced to the agency that publishes it.
Statewide programs, numbers, and rights are on the North Carolina page. This page adds the local entry points that are specific to Greensboro (Guilford County).
Early intervention under 3: North Carolina Infant-Toddler Program (NC ITP), delivered locally by the Greensboro CDSA
Guilford County's early intervention door is the Greensboro CDSA, one of 16 regional Children's Developmental Services Agencies that carry out North Carolina's Part C program, known statewide as the NC Infant-Toddler Program. Referrals reach the CDSA by phone, fax, letter, in person, or the state's NC ITP Referral form, and can come from a parent, physician, allied health professional, or teacher — no diagnosis is needed to start. From there, CDSA staff review a child's developmental and medical background and run the assessments used to decide whether a child under 3 qualifies for services. Every family gets screening, evaluation, and service coordination without charge, no matter their income or insurance.
- North Carolina Infant-Toddler Program (NC ITP), delivered locally by the Greensboro CDSA
- Referral phone: 743-902-5400 (Greensboro CDSA)
New to early intervention? Read the plain-language guide first.
School districts and special education
The duty to find and evaluate children with a suspected disability, from birth through 21, is called Child Find and is coordinated statewide by the NC Department of Public Instruction's Exceptional Children Division; each district then runs its own version of the process. Guilford County Schools, formed by the 1993 merger of the former Greensboro City, High Point City, and Guilford County systems, is the sole public school district covering Greensboro itself. Families should also know that TEACCH's own regional map groups Guilford together with neighboring Davidson County for referral purposes, so a family that moves just across the county line may end up dealing with a different district's Child Find team.
- Guilford County Schools — Exceptional Children Services 336-370-2323 (fax 336-370-2326); EC Parent Liaison Jacqui Hawkins, 336-271-5180, hawkinj@gcsnc.com
- Davidson County Schools — neighboring district grouped with Guilford under the same TEACCH regional catchment; district office 336-249-8182
Evaluation and diagnosis pathways in Greensboro
These are hospital and university programs with public intake information. Listing here is informational — it is not a recommendation, and it is not medical advice. Public school evaluation is free and does not require any of these.
- UNC TEACCH Autism Program — Greensboro Center — diagnostic evaluation, intervention and therapy services, education, and consultation for individuals on the autism spectrum, part of UNC's statewide TEACCH network; a professional referral form is referenced on the center's page, so call to confirm whether your family can refer directly · 919-966-1000
Disability services and waivers: Trillium Health Resources (Guilford County's LME/MCO)
North Carolina channels Medicaid-funded mental health, substance use, and I/DD services through regional public managed-care organizations called LME/MCOs, and Guilford County's is Trillium Health Resources. Trillium administers the NC Innovations Waiver locally — the state's home- and community-based Medicaid waiver covering autism and other I/DD — through a Tailored Plan, the only type of NC Medicaid plan that currently gives access to waiver services. Innovations has far more eligible applicants than funded slots, so the state maintains a Registry of Unmet Needs rather than a normal enrollment queue; a bill filed in the NC Senate in 2025 counted about 19,000 people on that registry statewide. Families can ask Trillium to add a child's name well ahead of any formal diagnosis, and can also ask about NC Medicaid's 1915(i) option, which provides some similar supports without affecting a family's place on the registry.
- Trillium Health Resources (Guilford County's LME/MCO)
- Phone: 1-877-685-2415 (Trillium Health Resources member and recipient services)
Local organizations that help Greensboro families
- Exceptional Children's Assistance Center (ECAC) — a federally funded resource for North Carolina families raising a child with a disability, offering free one-on-one help with the special education system from birth to 26 (704-892-1321, helpline 1-800-962-6817)
- The Arc of North Carolina — Triad Region — based in Salisbury and serving the Piedmont Triad; housing, care management, advocacy, and self-directed-services programs (704-637-1521)
Documented waits and access notes
Wait times change. Each note below links to the public source it came from — confirm current status directly with the program.
- A 2025 North Carolina Senate bill (S246) put the statewide NC Innovations Waiver waiting list at roughly 19,000 people, noting the list had about doubled over the prior decade while only around 2,000 new slots were added statewide in that same period. (source)
- Guilford County Schools must move from a written referral through evaluation, the eligibility meeting, and IEP development in 90 calendar days flat — North Carolina's rule doesn't bend that deadline for holidays or summer break. (source)
- The Greensboro CDSA follows the same federal Part C benchmark as every regional CDSA in the state: developmental assessment and the first IFSP meeting completed within 45 days of a referral. (source)
- Some Guilford County families report a ten-year-plus wait on the NC Innovations Waiver's registry, a reflection of how few new funded slots the state adds each year compared with new registrations. (source)
Paying for support in Greensboro
Guilford County's LME/MCO, Trillium Health Resources, is the local gateway to the NC Innovations Waiver, the state's Medicaid waiver for long-term autism and I/DD support — though North Carolina's registry for that waiver was carrying roughly 19,000 names statewide as of a 2025 bill filing. On a shorter timeline, NC Medicaid pays directly for ABA under a dedicated behavioral-health policy for diagnosed children, and state law separately requires many private insurers to cover up to $40,000 a year in ABA-type treatment for members under 19.
Nothing here is a recommendation — we list what exists, note what a provider says about itself, and let parents tell you the rest.
Common questions from Greensboro parents
Sources
- [1]NCDHHS — NC Infant-Toddler Program (NC ITP). Open source
- [2]NCDHHS — NC ITP Children's Developmental Services Agency Directory. Open source
- [3]NC DPI — Exceptional Children Division (Child Find). Open source
- [4]Guilford County Schools — Exceptional Children. Open source
- [5]Davidson County Schools — Exceptional Children. Open source
- [6]UNC TEACCH Autism Program — Regional Centers. Open source
- [7]UNC TEACCH Autism Program — Greensboro Center. Open source
- [8]NC Medicaid — Behavioral Health and I/DD Tailored Plans. Open source
- [9]NC Medicaid — NC Innovations Waiver. Open source
- [10]NC Medicaid — Program-Specific Clinical Coverage Policies (8F, RB-BHT for ASD). Open source
- [11]NC General Assembly — Senate Bill 246 (2025), Innovations Waiver slot expansion. Open source
- [12]Autism Speaks — North Carolina state-regulated insurance coverage (SB 676). Open source
- [13]Trillium Health Resources. Open source
- [14]Exceptional Children's Assistance Center (ECAC). Open source
- [15]The Arc of North Carolina — Triad Region. Open source
- [16]Disability Rights NC — IEP referral process (90-day timeline). Open source
- [17]NCDHHS — NC Infant-Toddler Program, step by step (45-day timeline). Open source
- [18]Vaya Health — NC Innovations Waiver (wait-time description). Open source
Last checked 2026-08-11. Programs and links change — confirm with the agency before relying on any detail. This page is information, not legal or medical advice.