Active Autism Friendly Businesses

Bear Creek Family Dental

Bear Creek Family Dental believes in caring for people first. Their mission is to provide quality care in a warm, welcoming environment. They’re a family practice that recognizes the essential role oral health plays in overall wellness, and they want to ensure the community has the knowledge and tools required to keep both optimal.

Callaway County Special Services

Callaway County Special Services is committed to empowering people and enriching lives by fostering a community that values and supports individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families through education, resources, and services. Callaway County residents may be eligible to receive services from Callaway County Special Services if they have a diagnosed intellectual or developmental disability.

Capital Dentistry for Children

At Capital Dentistry for Children, their friendly, dedicated, and energetic dental team is committed to working with you and your family to create a positive dental experience every time you visit their practice.

Cassie & Frances Photography

Columbia Convention and Visitor’s Bureau

Whatever your reason for visiting, the Columbia Convention and Visitors Bureau and the people of Columbia warmly welcome you. From festivals to food and scenic escapes to shopping, CCVB can’t wait for you to explore all there is to do here and they know you’ll find something perfectly unexpected.

Columbia Dentistry for Children

At Columbia Dentistry for Children and Capital Dentistry for Children, their friendly, dedicated, and energetic dental team is committed to working with you and your family to create a positive dental experience every time you visit their practice.

Compass Health – Pediatric Dentistry

Compass Health Pediatric Dentistry provides children with exceptional dental care and ongoing preventive oral health services in a courteous and compassionate
atmosphere. Staffed with some of the most respected dentists and hygienists in the region, our clinics have state-of-the-art equipment to meet your dental needs.

Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture

Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture (CCUA) is a non-profit working in central Missouri out of two main locations: Columbia’s Agriculture Park and Mark and Carol Stevenson Veterans Urban Farm. Their vision is a community transformed by good food for all and the skills to grow it. They run a number of targeted programs to provide a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables directly to community members in need while supporting people of all ages with opportunities to develop lifelong skills in home gardening, agriculture, and cooking.

Community Health Center of Central Missouri Autism Clinic

Community Health Center of Central Missouri was established in 2005 to serve the primary healthcare needs of Central Missouri residents. They believe that providing primary care services is much more than just providers and facilities. Quality of care, customer service, disease management, value and convenience are also key parts of the service delivery process. Community Health Center emphasizes providing access to primary care services to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay and works with our community partners to achieve our vision of “embracing people, inspiring health”. CHCCMO is a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) deemed facility.

Daniel Boone Regional Library

The Daniel Boone Regional Library strives to be at the heart of the community, a trusted resource and partner known for excellence, creativity, and open, equitable access, connecting every person to opportunities for a lifetime of discovery, learning and joy.

Danielle Worthington Photography

Danielle Worthington is a trauma-sensitive portrait photographer who is dedicated to providing meaningful, thoughtful and inclusive portrait experiences for all humans. She is based out of Mid-Missouri and specializes in portraits, branding and boudoir. Danielle is also a proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community and believes deeply in celebrating and honoring the beauty and individuality of all humans through the art of portraiture.

Eurofins – Columbia

Eurofins Biopharma in Columbia, MO is committed to hiring neurodiverse employees and creating inclusive and supporting work environments. Eurofins Scientific and its subsidiaries, is a world leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences, and in agroscience Contract Research services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in genomics and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in BioPharma Contract Development and Manufacturing. In addition, Eurofins is one of the key emerging players in specialty esoteric and molecular clinical diagnostic testing in Europe and the USA. With over 65,000 staff across a network of independent companies in 60 countries and operating over 950 laboratories, Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods for evaluating the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin and purity of biological substances and products, as well as for innovative clinical diagnostics. The objective of Eurofins companies is to provide their customers with high-quality services, accurate results on time and expert advice by their highly qualified staff.

Focus on Health Chiropractic

Focus on Health wants to influence the health and mobility of our community by empowering patients to make conscious health care decisions, aligning ourselves with competent and compassionate allied health professionals, and by creating a warm and welcoming environment to deliver clinical excellence and inspiring our team to change healthcare.

Giving Song

Giving Song’s central aim is to aid clients to achieve their fullest potential through the use of specifically designed music experiences uniquely tailored to each individual and group. Giving song believes music is an amazing tool to meet people where they are and to enhance relationships.

Kansas City Public Library

The Kansas City Public Library system consists of a central library, nine physical branches, a digital branch, and an outreach services program serving a community of over 250,000 in Kansas City, Missouri. In addition to providing library services to residents, the Library also serves as a resource for the 1.7 million metropolitan residents of greater Kansas City.

Lohman Building

The Lohman Building is a visitor’s center for guests in Jefferson City, MO. They provide slide shows on the area’s history as well as a museum concentrating on the development of Jefferson City as the seat of Missouri government and the role the building played in that development are in the basement. Visitors can walk the stone floor, touch the limestone walls, and sense the atmosphere of history in the building.

Mason Eye Institute – East

Eye appointments can sometimes be scary, but the trained staff at Mason Eye Institute can the help make the process as comfortable as possible. As a part of MU Healthcare, Mason Eye Institute – East offers comprehensive eye and vision care, including a full optical shop.

Missouri River Relief

Missouri River Relief’s mission is to engage individuals and communities along the Missouri River in the exploration, enjoyment, restoration and care of the river through hands-on river cleanups, education programs and recreation.

Missouri State Capitol Museum

The Missouri State Museum is where visitors go to immerse themselves in the history of the Show-Me State. The museum, located in the state Capitol, houses an impressive collection of exhibits portraying the state’s natural and cultural history. Museum staff provide tours of the Capitol. Jefferson Landing was a busy center of commerce along the Missouri River during the mid-1800s. Steamboats traveling between St. Louis and Kansas City docked in front of the Lohman Building. The nearby Union Hotel contains the Elizabeth Rozier Gallery with changing exhibits on Missouri history, art and culture.

Mizzou Greek Week

Mizzou Greek Week is a student-led series of events held each spring that represents the values of the fraternity and sorority community – service, scholarship, leadership, brotherhood & sisterhood. Specifically, Greek Week hosts a sensory friendly carnival in the spring tailored for individuals with disabilities and their families. Events are dedicated to fostering relationships among between members, campus community and the greater Columbia community. Greek Week offers exceptional leadership opportunities for students while giving back to local, charitable organizations.

MU Pediatric Orthopaedics

MU’s Pediatric Orthopaedics provides care in a nurturing environment with knowledgeable physicians and the latest technology. Within their clinic they have multiple providers, including surgeons, sports medicine doctors, and nurse practitioners available Monday through Friday.

Retrieving Freedom

The mission of Retrieving Freedom, Inc. is to change lives through the training and placement of Service Dogs for Veterans with disabilities and children with autism.

Ronald MacDonald House Charities of Mid-Missouri

The mission of Ronald McDonald House Charities® of Mid-Missouri is to provide a home away from home that gives children a place to play after a long day at the hospital, their parents a home near the hospital for a good night’s sleep and a warm meal and families relief from the financial and emotional burdens of traveling for their child’s medical care.

Sacred Heart Catholic Church

Parishioners of Sacred Heart are a resilient, warm and welcoming family with a culturally diverse community learning from one another. They strive to grow both spiritually and in social awareness and they welcome you to join them as parishioners.

SFS Architecture

SFS Architecture is a full-service architecture, interior design and planning firm founded in Kansas City, Missouri in 1973. For over 50 years they’ve stimulated community growth through renovation, expansion, adaptive reuse and new construction building projects across eight markets: academic, civic and state, culture and recreation, federal, justice, private, public safety and worship. In designing the new Thompson Center facility, SFS recognized the role that each of us has in creating communities and workplaces where neurodiverse individuals are not just welcomed, but truly belong.

Sky Zone – Columbia

Discover a gravity defying experience at Sky Zone Trampoline Park in Columbia, MO. It is the ultimate destination for exciting jumps and nonstop fun. Make sure to check their website for special sensory friendly nights and events.

St. Thomas More Newman Center

The Newman Center is a university parish of more than 800 families and over 1,000 students. Founded in December 1963, their primary apostolate is serving the collegiate campuses of the University of Missouri-Columbia, Stephen’s College, and Columbia College. As a full parish, they also serve the full sacramental and spiritual needs of the entire community.

Thompson Foundation for Autism & Neurodevelopment

The Thompson Foundation for Autism & Neurodevelopment strengthens children and families impacted by autism and neurodevelopmental diagnoses by raising awareness, advancing public policy, and funding the needs of the Thompson Center for Autism & Neurodevelopment at the University of Missouri. Together with the Thompson Center, we are making a difference in the lives of people impacted by autism and neurodevelopmental diagnoses.