Why Choose Us
- Team Approach: We partner with specialists from across Cincinnati Children’s to ensure children receive quality care in a coordinated manner, with experts who have experience seeing children with different developmental profiles.
- Family-Center Care: We work with you and your family to determine how to best meet your child’s needs. By evaluating your child’s unique strengths and challenges, we create a family-centered care plan to meet your child’s greatest potential.
- Innovative Research: Our commitment to innovative partnerships and collaborative programs ensures that your child has access to the most advanced and up-to-date resources.
- Community Support: We strive to connect patients and families to community activities and support resources including parent networking, education programs, sibling support groups and more.
- Top 50 in the Nation: Cincinnati Children's is ranked Top 50 in the nation for pediatric and adolescent behavioral health in the U.S. News & World Report 2026-2027 Best Children's Hospitals rankings. All 50 programs are recognized equally without assigned rankings.
History of Excellence
The Sonya Oppenheimer Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics (DDBP) is named in honor of Sonya Oppenheimer, MD, who retired as division director in July 2005. Dr. Oppenheimer’s decades of outstanding service helped establish our reputation as one of the leading centers for interdisciplinary training in the care of children with developmental disorders. This naming is made possible thanks to generous support from the Jack Rubinstein Foundation for Developmental Disorders.
