Children's Developmental Center

Children's Developmental Center is a speech therapist and early intervention provider in Richland, Washington. Licensed and certified early intervention specialists work with children from birth to age three who have delays in social/emotional, cognitive/adaptive, speech/language, or fine and gross motor development. Services include speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, special instruction, and educational assistance, and the center serves families in Finley, Kennewick, Patterson, and Pasco. It holds a rating of 4.50.

The center's mission is to empower families and improve children's lives through early intervention services, education, and therapeutic services, with a stated vision of a community of empowered families and successful children. Its values are compassion, teamwork, communication, support, and flexibility. The organization traces its history to 1977, when a family with a special-needs child in Kennewick opened their home to provide early intervention services to other children. Its team includes an executive director, a people and operations director, a program director, a program manager, and a development manager, alongside family resources coordinators, special instruction teachers, early interventionists, educational assistants, occupational therapists, physical therapists, COTAs, speech-language pathologists, and speech-language pathology assistants. A parent portal is available, and providers, teachers, and parents can make a referral through a form that a Family Resources Coordinator follows up on. Hours are Monday through Friday, 7:30 am to 4:30 pm, closed on national holidays.

The center is located on Georgia Avenue in Richland, about a quarter mile from Kadlec Clinic - Northwest Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine, roughly 0.3 miles from Columbia Park Trail and Wye Park, and a similar distance from the Gene L. Spaulding memorial. Columbia Canal and Columbia Center Boulevard are each about 0.4 miles away.

The center holds a positive rating from the customers who have reviewed it.