One group · distinct practices
Human expertise.
AI at work.
SL Global is a group of operating businesses in education, advisory, talent and technology. Each has its own clients and its own standards. What they share is a way of working: people who know the subject, with AI carrying the volume — and a source behind every claim.
- Operating since
- 2010Special Learning, our founding business
- People served
- 20,500+across 140+ countries
- Providers indexed
- 8,553organisations in the ESBAP directory
- Registered office
- Chicago, Illinois
Seven practices. One way of working.
Every practice below ends in a door you can open. Where the product is public, the link goes straight into it. Where the work is confidential, we built a demonstration you can walk instead of a screenshot you have to take on faith.
Investigations & Disputes
Human analysis and AI synthesis on information-intensive matters — internal investigations, diligence, disputes — worked in a private matter room with a citation behind every fact.
Special Learning
Autism and ABA education for families, educators and practitioners. Founded 2010; a BACB ACE Provider; 20,500+ people served across 140+ countries.
ABA Business Growth
Retained executive search and advisory for ABA organisations — leadership hiring, and the operating help that makes a hire work.
ESBAP
An independent transparency resource for families choosing autism services: every U.S. provider we can find, who owns them, and what the published record shows.
AutismFLIX
Expert autism and ABA training on video, for parents and professionals who learn better by watching than by reading.
Learning platforms
The course delivery, CE tracking and credential wallet behind our own programmes — and available to organisations running theirs.
Video production
Training video built from a client's own deck and speaker notes — presenter, captions and multiple language tracks, in audience-specific versions.
What that looks like in practice.
Three of our surfaces, live today. Nothing below is a mock-up.
The thread that connects us.
A parent after a diagnosis. A general counsel with a problem and a deadline. An agency owner hiring a clinical director. Each needs something different, and each is one person deciding something that matters. We start there and build the work around it.
Questions we get asked
What is SL Global?
SL Global is a group of operating businesses founded on Special Learning, which began in 2010. The group works in autism and ABA education, investigations and disputes advisory, executive search for ABA organisations, provider data, media and learning technology. Each business keeps its own name, clients and standards.
What does SL Global mean by AI as a partner rather than a tool?
Our AI partners have names, defined roles and accountability for a specific part of the work — drafting, analysis, reconciliation and checking. People decide and put their names to the result. Where an AI partner writes to you directly it says so and will hand you to a person on request. The current partners, their roles and the model configured behind each one are published at slglobal.ai/partners.html.
Does SL Global provide legal advice?
No. Our investigations and disputes practice works as a vendor to the law firm or the company, under the engagement's privilege arrangements. We read and reconcile large records and put a source behind every fact. Counsel keeps the judgement.
Can I see the products before engaging?
Yes. Every public product links directly from its practice page — Special Learning, the ESBAP provider directory, AutismFLIX, the course catalogue. For the confidential matter-room work we publish a walkable demonstration matter at slglobal.ai/demo/war-room/ running on invented facts, so you can use the real product rather than look at screenshots.
Where is SL Global based?
Chicago, Illinois — 445 E. Illinois St, Suite 6702, Chicago, IL 60611. We work with clients internationally; Special Learning alone has served people in more than 140 countries.