Adult & Child Therapy Services: 2010-2011

Adult & Child Therapy Services (ACTS) is a nonprofit, outpatient clinic that has served McHenry County in Illinois since 1949. The clinic provides physical, occupational and speech therapy services to patients of all ages, whether insured, underinsured or uninsured.

Thanks to a grant to the Washington Square Health Foundation, ACTS can now deliver its services [Read More…]

Easter Seals: Talk and Play: 2000 – 2001

For children with Pervasive Developmental Disorder/Autism, language-scripting therapy provides significant changes in social interaction with peers. Talk and Play, a multi-media language-scripting therapy study compares video versus picture-book scripts to determine which has the better long-term effectiveness in a variety of typical social situations.

Twelve children were divided into two groups, one using video scripts [Read More…]

A Grant Making Focus on Children: 1998 – 1999

CIRCLING A TB SKIN TEST WITH A "SMILEY FACE" IS PART OF A SUCCESSFUL INFANT WELFARE TB SKIN TESTING COMPLIANCE INITIATIVE.

CIRCLING A TB SKIN TEST WITH A "SMILEY FACE" IS PART OF A SUCCESSFUL INFANT WELFARE TB SKIN TESTING COMPLIANCE INITIATIVE.

Over the past dozen years, Washington Square’s grant making program, while not adopting a particular disease or population sector, has developed various targets. For example, early on and to this day HIV, [Read More…]