The Intensive Treatment Needs Unit (ITN) at IDTC offers the additional care, structure, and supervision needed to provide treatment for dually diagnosed children who experience uncontrollable and unpredictable behaviors that significantly interfere with their day-to-day living.

ITN residents may be non-verbal, functioning at a moderate to severe range of mental retardation, seriously organically or neurologically impaired, and may carry diagnoses that include:

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Autistic Spectrum Disorders
• Pervasive Developmental Disorder
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder
• Intermittent Explosive Disorder

Our unique program has the ability to implement a variety of intervention and treatment strategies with specific outcome measures and criteria for moving to a less-restrictive setting. Residents placed in our ITN show significantly decreased frequencies of identified inappropriate and undesirable behaviors, as well as improved social and self-care skills.

In addition to our comprehensive treatment services, the ITN has the ability to offer a higher degree of staff supervision, depending on the needs of the child.