Using a holistic approach to empower children and support families.

We are multi disciplinary team and can provide services for Occupational Therapy Speech therapy, Behavioural Therapy, and Psychology as part of the team.  We are a family-centered practice using a holistic and goal-orientated approach to empower children and their families to:

• Use a strength-based approach to overcome challenges
• Develop strategies to be able to function
• Build self-efficacy for the family
• Utilize building blocks to succeed
• Support the family using a team approach to care

Our team of Occupational Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Behavioral Therapists, and Psychologists support all areas of daily living (ADL) including play with peers, self-care (feeding, dressing, toileting, personal hygiene), and leisure activities (family community participation and participating at school). We also support functional communication using a positive behavioral approach as well as sensory and emotional regulation.

We can direct bill Family Supports of Children with Disabilities (FSCD) and can work with you through your private insurance.

Developing and practicing Fine Motor Skills will assist your child with the coordination of small finger muscles with the eyes. Learning to grasp, release, and play with toys that are the beginning of pencil skills. Developing and practicing Visual Motor Skills will assist your child to track an object.  Building hand-eye coordination assists children as they play with blocks, read books, batt a ball, and copy from a blackboard.

Functional communication plays an important role in everyday situations. When we can functionally communicate, we can communicate our: basic needs, how we are feeling, what we are thinking and wanting to express, understanding others and engaging in meaningful interaction with others. Being able to play and communicate with peers, express needs, and how a person feels without behaviours is an important part of life.

Communication can be with gestures or signing, pictures, body language, use of an AAC (Augmented and Alternative Communication Device), verbally, or a combination.  Functional communication targets communication skills needed for daily activities, social interactions, and academic success.

Sensory regulation, self-regulation and emotional are terms that look at a person's (any age) ability to be at that just right level of alertness, focus to task, arousal level and positive emotional state to be able to complete activities of daily living and cope in the day. As well as the ability to match the situation or environment with the emotional reaction and attention needed.  This is an important skill for children, teens and adults to learn and cope in their day.

Sensory regulation and emotional regulation also are impacted by sensory sensitivities or low registration of our senses and how we process information around us. Senses are how we interact in our environment: vision, hearing, smell, touch, balance, body awareness (proprioception), interoception (internal sense of our body).

These areas can impact the child’s/teens/adult’s ability to eat a variety of foods, impact toilet training, ability to learn new skills such as dressing and transitioning from one activity to another. Also to be able to tolerate being in social situations and use functional communication, how we react in our environment and can cause negative behavioural reactions.

We can direct bill to FSCD, support families for private insurance and private pay.