Services at Wonder Brightly

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Developmental Therapy is a global, relationship-based service provided through the Illinois Early Intervention system. It supports how young children grow and learn across multiple areas of development, rather than focusing on a single skill domain.

Developmental Therapy addresses core developmental domains, including communication, cognition, physical development, social-emotional development, and adaptive skills, while also considering a child’s sensory processing profile, regulation, and engagement patterns. This integrated lens helps families understand how developmental areas interact and influence one another over time.

Services are delivered through play-based, relationship-centered interactions within a child’s natural environments and everyday routines. Caregivers are always present and actively involved, building insight and practical skills that support development between sessions and over time.

Developmental Therapy is aligned with a child’s Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) and emphasizes collaboration with caregivers and care teams to ensure support feels coordinated, meaningful, and responsive to the child’s daily life.

Child & Family Developmental Consultation is a consultative and educational service focused on understanding children’s development, behavior, and relationships within everyday life.

This work supports caregivers, educators, and care teams in making sense of a child’s social-emotional development, regulation, communication, engagement, and play. Rather than addressing behavior in isolation, consultation looks beneath the surface to understand what children are expressing through their actions, emotions, and interactions.

Consultation may take place across a variety of settings and formats, depending on the needs of the child and team. This may include caregiver coaching, classroom or program observation, collaborative problem-solving with educators, participation in IEP or team meetings, and reflective consultation with professionals supporting young children and families.

Sessions may be caregiver-only, offering a reflective space to slow down, think together, and plan, or may include hands-on, in-the-moment coaching with the child present. Across settings, the focus remains the same: strengthening adult understanding and responsiveness so support for regulation, connection, communication, and social-emotional development can continue over time.

This service is especially supportive for families and teams working with autistic and neurodivergent children, including differences in communication, sensory processing, regulation, and social engagement, as well as for programs seeking a developmental and early childhood mental health–informed lens.

Child & Family Developmental Consultation is not therapy. Private services are consultative and educational in nature. Developmental therapy is provided only through Illinois Early Intervention, when authorized through a child’s Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP).

PLAY Project® Consultation is a relationship-based, play-centered intervention model developed for children with autism and other neurodevelopmental differences and implemented through caregiver coaching and guided play.

This work focuses on strengthening engagement, communication, shared attention, and social connection—particularly when back-and-forth interaction or meaningful connection feels hard to access. Consultation supports caregivers in understanding how their child communicates and relates through play, and how to join that play in ways that feel natural, joyful, and developmentally supportive.

PLAY Project® Consultation may include observation, video review of play interactions, collaborative reflection, and individualized play planning. When working in person, sessions can be hands-on—blending modeling, shared play, coaching, and reflection—so caregivers build confidence and skill in supporting interaction during everyday routines.

PLAY Project® Consultation fits within the broader Child & Family Developmental Consultation framework while remaining a distinct, evidence-based model for families and providers seeking this specific approach.