All Children Are Special

Welcome to All Children Are Special, the website for the medical practice of Patricia McGuire MD FAAP. This is a Developmental and Behavioral Pediatric Practice.  The focus of this practice is to provide service and support  to children with developmental and behavioral challenges and their families.

BELIEF:

All children are born wanting to be loved, accepted, and respected. The rest we have to teach them.

VISION:

All children will be supported in their quest for competence and happiness through

the mentoring, coaching, and teaching of the world around them.

MISSION:

To provide adults with the knowledge and support to understand, the developmental and behavioral underpinnings

of children and youth in order to be

models, guides, and providers of

constructive feedback

which will lead to their growth in competence and happiness.



UPDATE:

Some people may have heard that Dr. McGuire is closing her practice.  While that will occur sometime in the next  3-12 months (depending on how long it takes to either sell her building, lease out her building, or find part-time employment in Wisconsin where her husband now lives),  she is currently still actively seeing patients, including assessing new patients with developmental and behavioral concerns.

Once she moves to Wisconsin, she will focus exclusively on speaking, training, and writing in order to create a more understanding world for children with developmental and behavioral challenges.



Dr. McGuire is a board certified developmental and behavioral pediatrician. She has been in private practice since 1985, serving children first in Wisconsin and for the last 20 years in Cedar Rapids, IA. She has worked with hundreds of families with their children, providing diagnostic services, as well as counseling and support services. She is a speaker for PESI, LLC.  She also speaks for Kirkwood Community College and for Springtides, Inc., the nonprofit side of the medical practice. Dr. McGuire is the author of Never Assume: Getting To Know Children Before Labeling Them.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

American Academy of Pediatrics

American Medical Association

Council for Exceptional Children

International Dyslexia Association

Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics

STAFF:

Tammi Moser - Office manager

Poncho - Unofficial therapy cat (now retired at home)

Ingrid - Unofficial therapy cat

BLOG: 

Get a dose of developmental and behavioral common sense with Dr. McGuire, The Pediatric Profiler.

FACEBOOK FAN PAGE: Like Dr. McGuire and get frequent updates on developmental and behavioral advances.