City resource guide
Autism Providers in Louisville, Kentucky
13 providers listed at an address in Louisville itself. For everyone who serves the wider area, see Jefferson County.
This page lists autism providers based in Louisville — the ones close enough to drive to. Many providers serve Jefferson County from neighboring towns, or by telehealth and in-home visits, and those appear on the county page rather than here.
ABA therapy
Applied Behavior Analysis therapy — typically requires insurance authorization.
Louisville
Adapt For Life — Louisville
ABA therapy services in Louisville East and Louisville South serving Jefferson County families with autism.
Source: https://aflaba.com/louisville-east/
Louisville
April ABA Therapy — Louisville
Clinician-owned BCBA and RBT team providing ABA therapy in Louisville/Jefferson County.
Source: https://www.aprilaba.com/areas-we-serve/louisville-jefferson-county
Louisville
Cultivate Behavioral Health — Louisville
Outpatient center-based ABA therapy for children with autism in Louisville, Jefferson County. Multiple clinic locations.
Source: https://cultivatebhe.com/locations/kentucky/louisville/
Louisville · multi-county
Hopebridge — Louisville
Center-based ABA therapy with Louisville metro locations. BCBA-supervised with multidisciplinary approach. Accepts most commercial insurance and Kentucky Medicaid.
Kentucky requires commercial insurance to cover ABA therapy.
Activities, clubs & recreation
Clubs, sports, camps, and social programs that welcome autistic children and teens — inclusive, adaptive, and special-needs specific.
Louisville · multi-county
Autism Society of Kentuckiana (ASK)
Serves greater Louisville and southern Indiana with family support and social events. Local chapters usually know about activities that appear in no directory, so worth a call even when their own calendar is not the fit.
Louisville · multi-county
Dreams With Wings
A Louisville nonprofit running a seven-week summer camp for around 50 campers aged 13 to 21 with intellectual disabilities - five days a week, eight hours a day. Full-day, full-summer provision for teenagers is scarce almost everywhere.
Louisville · multi-county
FEAT of Louisville - summer camp
An eight-week educational, therapeutic and recreational summer camp for autistic children and teenagers across the Louisville metro, surrounding counties and southern Indiana. Eight weeks is close to the whole summer, which for a working family is the difference between a camp and a solution.
Autism-friendly dentists
Dentists experienced with autistic patients — desensitisation visits, sensory accommodations, and staff who take the time it takes.
Louisville · multi-county
Lee Specialty Clinic
4501 Louise Underwood Way, Louisville, KY 40216
Not only a dental clinic - a whole healthcare system built for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and one of very few of its kind anywhere. Under one roof: dental, medical, psychiatry, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology, nutrition and applied behavior analysis. For an autistic adult whose care is usually scattered across providers who each know a little about disability, a single team that knows a lot is a different proposition entirely.
Best known for serving adults with IDD. Ask what they can take on together rather than booking a single service.
Louisville · multi-county
UofL Special Care Dentistry
The University of Louisville runs Special Care Dentistry for people of ALL ages with intellectual and developmental disabilities, behavioral issues and physical limitations - the all-ages part matters, because most special-care dentistry stops at 18 or 21. A sensory-friendly environment, techniques aimed at lowering anxiety, and sedation where it is genuinely needed. Delivered across several Louisville sites plus a community clinic in Owensboro.
Ask which of the Louisville locations suits your child - they include the Graduate Pediatric Dentistry Practice and the Kosair for Kids Center. Owensboro is a separate community clinic.
Parent & family support
Parent groups, sibling programs, and family peer support.
Louisville · multi-county
Autism Society of Kentucky — Louisville
Kentucky's statewide autism organization with active Louisville programming. Support groups, resource navigation, and family events across Jefferson County.
Advocacy & legal
Legal advocates, special education advocates, and disability rights organizations.
Louisville · multi-county
Kentucky Special Parent Involvement Network (KY-SPIN)
Kentucky's federally funded Parent Training and Information Center. Free IEP advocacy, training, and one-on-one support for Kentucky families statewide. Knows Kentucky's special education regulations and ARC process.
FREE. Federally funded PTI. Call before any IEP meeting or dispute in Kentucky.
Occupational therapy & sensory
Occupational therapy, sensory integration, and sensory diets.
Louisville
Kid Therapy — Louisville
Pediatric speech, ABA, and occupational therapy in Louisville. Serves children with autism and developmental delays.
Source: https://kidtherapy.org/locations/louisville-pediatric-therapy/
Diagnostic clinics
Formal autism evaluations by developmental pediatricians, psychologists, or neuropsychologists.
Louisville · multi-county
Norton Children's Hospital — Autism Evaluation Program
Comprehensive autism evaluations at Norton Children's Hospital, Louisville's premier pediatric hospital. Multi-disciplinary team serving Jefferson County and the greater Louisville metro.
Louisville's dominant pediatric program. Ask about their community-based evaluation referrals.
Not finding the right fit in Louisville?
20 more providers serve Jefferson County from outside Louisville — including telehealth and in-home services that do not depend on how far you can drive.
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