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Service Description:
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The centres provide intensive behavioural programming in one to one and small group settings. The Centre is an optimal learning environment for school aged learners with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) that may have challenges in a regular education placement. Additionally, programing is supplemental to school placements
Programs
provided:
ABA/IBA
- Full and half day programming, year-round, tailored to the developmental needs of the child
- Individual therapy as well as therapeutically goal-oriented group and social instruction
- Consistency of staffing and programming, as well as robust supervision and staff training
- Opportunities for children to interact socially with each other, in a supervised, developmentally-useful program
- Therapeutically-focused parent training, both on site at one outside the centres
- For students in or graduating to the public or private school systems, the agency offers preschool integration as well as tailored transition-to-school programs
Youth Program - BRIDGES (Building Relationships, Independence, Development, Growth, Engagement Skills)
- Program was created with the goal of demonstrating that adolescents and youth with ASD can learn and move towards independence and successful inclusion in the community
- Target skills are designed to provide each individual with the opportunity to acquire and advance skills in the areas of: self-advocacy and self care, mobility/transportation, community-based living, communication, general health /lifestyle, job skills/vocational training, personal resource management, community/social participation, executive functioning/planning and time management
Academic Remediation/Tutoring: Reading, writing and math support *offered weekdays between 2pm-7pm
Parent Coaching: Equip parents and family members with knowledge and strategies to foster important skills in the home and the community. Specific target areas can include sleep, eating, toileting.
Skills Assessments - will provide answers to a variety of questions about a child’s development. As part of the assessment a child will participate in different standardized tasks and play activities so that the clinician can observe a variety of skills and behaviours
Assessments may take place either in clinic or in the community. At the end of each assessment parents will have a chance to review all of the information gathered and receive a report with next steps and clinical recommendations. The assessment will evaluate a full spectrum of potential diagnosis and is not limited to ASD
Social Skills Groups
- Friendship Club - An 8- 10 week group for children 8-12 years old. In this group, learners will meet to practice skills related to friendship, perspective taking, conflict resolution and social interaction in a fun and empowering way
- Hangout Hug - An 8–10-week group for teens 13-19 years old. In this group learners will meet to practice skills related to friendship/appropriate boundaries, conflict resolution, peer cooperation and leisure in a fun and empowering way
Three campus locations (Woodbridge, North York and Mississauga)
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