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The Detroit Institute for Children is a leading center of excellence, providing comprehensive and multi-disciplinary care for children and young adults with chronic disabilities. Child and family expectations are exceeded through evaluation, treatment, education, research and development provided within an integrated regional network. Service is provided in a financially solvent environment sustaining a charitable mission.Formed by eight teenaged girls, the Sigma Gamma (ΣΓ) organization was created in 1904 for two purposes – camaraderie with friends and charitable work in the community. Considering the high incidence of polio and tuberculosis in the Detroit area at the time, they focused their efforts on children with disabilities.After several years of volunteering at various clinics and institutions, they established the ΣΓ Clinic (now The DIC) in 1920, guided by service to the disabled community, regardless of the patients’ ability to pay and concentration on treating the whole child, not just the disability. Because of the significant decline in diseases requiring long-term care, ΣΓ developed an outpatient clinic that would in 1970 become The DIC. Its founding principles remain at the cornerstone of the organization today.A comprehensive array of services and programs provide a continuum of care for children and young adults with physical, neurological or developmental disabilities. The professional staff of The DIC, including physicians, therapists, nurse practitioners, social workers, psychologists, and orthotists all take great pride in their holistic approach and working with the child’s family and caregivers to maximize his or her potential for independent functioning. Whether a child’s condition is the result of a birth defect, illness or injury... whether a child is mildly involved or more severely affected... whether a child requires multiple weekly therapy sessions and equipment, or monitoring by a specialty physician only once or twice a year...The DIC is here to help.

• Release Date

  Apr 14, 2009

• Runtime

  08:33