Age group: 0-18 years.
(This service is not intended for complex behavioural needs due to short service block period)
- Applied Behaviour Analysis
- Assessment
- Behaviour
- Behaviour Prevention
- Caregiver Training
- Coaching
- Communication
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
- Consultation
- Daily Living Skills
- Daily Routine
- Early Learning
- Emotional Regulation
- Independence
- Language
- Life Skills
- Play
- Preschool
- Reinforcement
- School Age
- Self-regulation
- Skill Building
- Social Skills
- Transitions
- Visuals
GJCC Focused Consultative ABA services (using the techniques and strategies of Applied Behaviour Analysis – ABA) can help individuals learn new skills, cope with, and tolerate different situations, and decrease challenging behaviours. Individualized plans may include 1-2 goals, which are then broken into smaller steps through teaching strategies. Some examples are:
• Improving social skills, taking turns
• Managing strong emotions
• Following instructions, transitioning between activities, following a schedule
• Learning to care for personal needs, like: getting dressed, teeth brushing
• Communication
You will guide the process. Together, we will talk about your needs, goals, and what you and your child/youth need support with. Do not worry; we will help give clinical recommendations if you do not know where to start.
When you have selected the goals, we will observe and assess your child/youth to see his/her current strengths and needs. Our clinical team will create an individualized 10-week plan for your child/youth based on your goals. Your child/youth will be working 1-1 with a Behavioural Therapist to deliver the plan with the Clinical Supervision of the BCBA. There are also opportunities for caregiver mediated coaching throughout the 8 week sessions. All services can be delivered virtually or in-person, as determined in collaboration with your child/youth’s Behaviour Clinician (BCBA).
Available to Entire North Region
Age Group: 3 - 18 years
- Applied Behaviour Analysis
- Assessment
- Behaviour
- Caregiver Training
- Coaching
- Communication
- Consultation
- Daily Living Skills
- Daily Routine
- Emotional Regulation
- Independence
- Life Skills
- Reinforcement
- School Age
- Self-regulation
- Skill Building
- Social Skills
- Teens
- Toileting
- Transitions
- Visuals
- Vocational skills
Are you looking for a dynamic approach to teaching your child /youth life skills? Using a BST (Behaviour Skill Training) approach supported by a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst (BCaBA), you will learn fun ways to incorporate teaching your child with ASD life skills into your every day routine. This model uses an Instruct, Model, Practice and Feedback (tell-show-do) to consolidate newly learned skills. The parent and child/youth choose one specific goal to target over the course of 3 weeks, ranging from dressing, personal hygiene, cooking, independent skills, community skills, etc. Support form the Behaviour Analyst to assess needs and guide programming goals is provided. The parent then engages in the sessions with their child/youth to putting the practice of specific skills into effect to provide long lasting learning at home and in the community.
Available to Entire North Region
**Exclusionary Criteria
This service is not intended for individuals with limited communication and attending or with maladaptive behaviour.
- Independence
- Skill Building
- Social Skills
A social skills group aimed at improving social communication and providing youth with a meaningful opportunity to engage in and develop relationships with peers. This group will practice conversation skills, sharing experiences, perspective taking and empathy.
Available to Entire North Region
**Exclusionary Criteria
This service is not intended for individuals with limited communication and attending or with maladaptive behaviour.
- Independence
- Skill Building
- Social Skills
A social skills group aimed at improving social communication and providing youth with a meaningful opportunity to engage in and develop relationships with peers. This group will practice conversation skills, sharing experiences, perspective taking and empathy.
Available to Entire North Region
- Applied Behaviour Analysis
- Assessment
- Behaviour
- Caregiver Training
- Coaching
- Consultation
- Daily Living Skills
- Early Learning
- Employment
- Life Skills
- Preschool
- School Age
- Skill Building
- Teens
- Transitions
- Visuals
- Vocational skills
Transitions can be difficult for children and youth with ASD, but they don’t have to be. Parents will be provided with the tools, education and knowledge for advocacy skills and navigating systems seamlessly in order to support their child to experience smooth transitions. Sectors included can be between years of study and/or between school settings, secondary and post-secondary or for the adult sector, work force and community settings. These individual consultations will be child/youth specific in response to their personal strengths, needs and specific needs of the family.
Coping Cat is for children ages 9-12 with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and separation anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and/or related anxiety disorders.
- Anxiety
- Applied Behaviour Analysis
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
- Emotional Regulation
- Depression
- Mental health
- Resilience
- Skill Building
Coping Cat is for children ages 9-12 with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and separation anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and/or related anxiety disorders.
The program focuses on 4 key components:
• Recognizing and understanding emotional and physical reactions to anxiety
• Clarifying thoughts and feelings in anxious situations
• Developing plans for effecting coping (for example, changing anxious self-talk to coping self-talk, or determining what coping strategies might be effective).
• Evaluating performance and giving self-reinforcement (How well are they doing with the skills learned in the program) and administering self-reinforcement).
Each child will be provided with a workbook.
One STIC (Show That I Can) assignment to be completed weekly.
Parents/caregivers are required to meet in session 4 & 9, and as needed for exposure tasks.
Age Group: All ages
- Behaviour
- Caregiver Training
- Daily Living Skills
- Daily Routine
- Feeding
- Independence
- Life Skills
- Picky Eaters
- Reinforcement
- Skill Building
- Toileting
Individualized targeted 3 session consultation to work on a specific goal. These may include: functional skills such as toileting, eating, hygiene; communication goals (i.e., functional communication); identifying alternatives to disruptive behaviour, etc.
Disponible dans toute la région du Nord
- Applied Behaviour Analysis
- Assessment
- Behaviour
- Caregiver Training
- Coaching
- Consultation
- Daily Living Skills
- Early Learning
- Employment
- Life Skills
- Preschool
- School Age
- Skill Building
- Teens
- Transitions
- Visuals
- Vocational skills
Les transitions peuvent être difficiles pour les enfants et les jeunes atteints de TSA, mais elles ne devraient pas l'être. Les parents recevront les outils, l'éducation et les connaissances nécessaires pour défendre efficacement leurs intérêts et naviguer dans les systèmes de façon harmonieuse afin d'aider leur enfant à vivre des transitions en toute simplicité. Les secteurs inclus peuvent être entre les années d'études et/ou entre les milieux scolaires, secondaires et postsecondaires ou pour le secteur adulte, la main-d'œuvre et les milieux communautaires. Ces consultations individuelles seront spécifiques à l'enfant/au jeune en réponse à ses forces personnelles, à ses besoins et aux besoins spécifiques de la famille.
- Daily Living Skills
- Daily Routine
- Independence
- Skill Building
- Toileting
- Webinar
Toileting is an essential milestone for all individuals to acquire and a steppingstone to the development of other skills. This workshop aims to support parents and caregivers of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to teach toileting skills; the workshop includes teaching:
• Toileting phases
• Research supported strategies
• Child centered approach to toileting
• Collecting and interpreting data
• Reinforcement and troubleshooting
Technology Based Social Skills Group-Teaching Your Youth Socialization Skills While Using Technology
- Communication
- Independence
- Skill Building
- Social Skills
This group will run for 6 sessions with two BCBAs as facilitators, mediating the discussions on various topics. The aims include youths socializing, learning about how to identify friends and skills to maintain friendships while providing a platform to build social skills, and using technology to do it!
- Caregiver Training
- Coaching
- Communication
- Consultation
- Early Learning
- Language
- Life Skills
- Play
- Preschool
- Skill Building
- Transitions
This series is recommended for families who have recently received a diagnosis for their child. In the midst of receiving a diagnosis, families will navigate through a lot of information and make decisions about next steps. This series offers 3 workshops, along with 3, 1:1, 30-minute consultations with a BCBA-D. Workshop 1 will provide an overview of various services recommended to families with a child with ASD. Workshop 2 will provide an overview of Autism and Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) and why ABA is well suited to address ASD. If seeking ABA based services, this information is key for knowing what to look for in providers and how caregiver involvement is key to helping children reach their full potential. Workshop 3 will review things to do as you wait for service that will aid in developing skills and routines in the home to maximize learning from the get-go. The initial consultation is aimed at gathering information that will be pertinent to focusing the workshops on the audience attending, with follow up consultations occurring after Workshop 3 which will focus on implementing ABA strategies in the home with coaching from a BCBA-D.
- Behaviour
- Caregiver Training
- Coaching
- Communication
- Consultation
- Daily Living Skills
- Emotional Regulation
- Life Skills
- Reinforcement
- Skill Building
- Visuals
- Webinar
This workshop aims to outline strategies on reducing transition related problem behaviours. We will review how to establish positive rapport, specific steps to cue your child of upcoming changes, ways to prevent and deescalate behaviours and deciding when the advance notice is viable with the aim of reducing problem behaviours as a whole.
Caregivers of children who engage in at least 6 turns in conversation (3 turns each) would be better suited for Hanen’s Talkability Program. More Than Words is designed for children of up to 8 years of age who do not engage in lengthy conversations with others.
3-8 years of age are eligible (if child does not yet engage in multiple turns in conversation with others).
- Caregiver Training
- Communication
- Daily Routine
- Language
- Preschool
- Social Skills
The More Than Words Program was designed for parents of children on the autism spectrum and with other social communication difficulties. Addressing the unique needs of these children, the program provides parents with the tools, strategies and support they need to help their children reach their full communication potential.
More Than Words does this by empowering parents to help your child reach the following three goals:
1. Improved social communication and back-and-forth interactions
2. Improved play skills
3. Improved imitation skills
As a parent and/or caregiver, here are some of the valuable things that are learned when attending the More Than Words Program:
-What motivates your child to communicate
-How to use your knowledge about your child to set appropriate and realistic goals
-How to make interactions with your child last longer
-Tips for using pictures and print to help your child’s understanding
-Strategies for how to talk so that your child understands you
-Strategies for developing your child’s play skills
-Ways to help your child make friends
This is a caregiver coaching program, but children attend the video feedback sessions
The early years are especially crucial for verbal children on the autism spectrum because they still face special communication challenges. Often, these children find it difficult to:
- Have conversations with others
- Play with children their own age
- Talk about things that interest someone else
- Change a routine without becoming frustrated
If you’ve noticed more than one of these difficulties in your child, the TalkAbility Program can help. Specifically designed for parents of verbal children ages 3-7 years and up with social communication difficulties, the TalkAbility Program teaches parents practical ways to help their child learn people skills.
By “people skills”, we mean the ability to “tune in” to the thoughts and feelings of others by paying attention to non-verbal cues such as body language, facial expressions, eye gaze, and tone of voice. The ability to consider other points of view and to have empathy for others is essential for successful conversations and for making friends. Children with social communication difficulties require extra help to develop these skills.
When you take the TalkAbility Program, you’ll learn:
- How your child carries on conversation and the next steps to take to help him have back-and-forth conversations
- How to encourage your child to pay attention to the social messages people send non-verbally
- How to talk so your child can tune in to what others are thinking ; help them appreciate another person<s feelings and point of view
- How to help your child tell stories and play imaginatively
- How to help your child make friends
Program Components
- Informative and personal classes for small groups of parents
- A Hanen Certified speech-language pathologist who leads the program and has received special training from The Hanen Centre
- A pre-program consultation for you and your child with your speech-language pathologist
- Individual video feedback sessions of you interacting with your child, so you can “see” what is helping and what else you can do
- Individual video feedback of your child playing with another child so you can “see” how you help their interaction
- Applied Behaviour Analysis
- Behaviour
- Caregiver Training
- Self-regulation
Individualized targeted 3 session consultation to work on a specific goal. These may include: functional skills such as toileting, eating, hygeine; communication goals (i.e., functional communication); identifying alternatives to disruptive behaviour, etc.
- Language
- Life Skills
- Social Skills
This skills group will aim to teach preschool and kindergarten learners prosocial skills for transitioning into the demands of a school setting. Learners will focus on school readiness skills, play skills, as well as self-awareness skills. This social skills group will provide learners with an opportunity to explore and practice social skills such as asking for help, greeting peers, turn taking, asking peers to play, and joining in on other peers’ play. Through a variety of facilitated activities, this group will also help learners identify and practice skills needed for managing their emotions and learning to cooperate with other peers.
- Play
- Skill Building
- Social Skills
This skills group will aim to teach school aged learners’ important social skill for engaging in social play and social interactions, building friendships with peers, as well as managing emotions in challenging social settings. Learners will have the opportunity to identify their social strengths as well as an opportunity to practice play skills, language skills, self-regulation skills and school readiness skills. This social skills group will provide a variety of facilitated activities that will encourage learners to connect with peers, enhance their self-awareness skills and practice problem solving and cooperation skills.
- Behaviour
- Caregiver Training
- Coaching
- Daily Routine
- Skill Building
The RUBI Parent Training for Disruptive Behaviours is intended to equip parents with a variety of techniques and tools that can help minimize disruptive behaviours and increase desired behaviours. It provides families with a wealth of information that can assist in their day-to-day planning for their child by including teaching opportunities for play skills, daily living skills as well as opportunities to apply behaviour management skills for encouraging desired behaviours.
- Anxiety
- Coaching
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
- Employment
- Resilience
- Self-regulation
The Think Good Feel Good program uses a cognitive behavioural approach to explore and test thoughts as well as learn alternative cognitive and behavioural skills. The program helps learners explore their thoughts and feelings and understand the impact these have on their actions. The goal of the program is to gain greater control over what happens in our lives while increasing overall happiness.
- Anxiety
- Behaviour
- Self-regulation
- Transitions
Sensory Yoga classes consist of yoga postures, breathing techniques and relaxation. Classes are held for children with sensory differences. Programs are adaptable to individual needs. Benefits include improved balance, coordination and strength. Learn practical tools to help manage stress and create a calm and focused mind. Learn in a safe and enjoyable environment with an occupational therapist certified to deliver sensory yoga.
- Behaviour
- Caregiver Training
- Emotional Regulation
- Self-regulation
Sensory Survival Course is designed to equip caregivers to better understand their child’s sensory differences and to learn strategies for how they can best support their child’s sensory differences.
- Caregiver Training
- Feeding
- Picky Eaters
Mealtimes can be full of stress and overwhelm for families with a picky eater, Rachel and Julie provide a team perspective (OT and SLP) to provide caregivers with an understanding of why children may be “picky eaters” and how parents can support their child to become more open to trying and exploring new foods. Make mealtimes fun again by learning tips for gradually increasing your child’s interest in new or less-preferred foods.
- Early Learning
- Independence
- Preschool
- Skill Building
This caregiver workshop is designed to give caregivers a better understanding of what fine motor skills are expected for their child, why fine motor skills are important, and simple tips for supporting fine motor skills at home. It includes a quick consultation phone call of up to 30 minutes to discuss how the strategies can be implemented and/or individualized.
- Caregiver Training
- Coaching
- Communication
- Consultation
- Daily Living Skills
- Daily Routine
- Early Learning
- Emotional Regulation
- Independence
- Life Skills
- Play
- Preschool
- School Age
- Self-regulation
- Skill Building
- Transitions
- Visuals
Consult and collaboratively work with an Occupational Therapist to identify concerns related to fine motor skills, visual motor skills (paper and pencil, cutting), self-regulation, self-care skills as well as areas of sensory processing affecting the child’s functional skills in their everyday life.
- Caregiver Training
- Coaching
- Communication
- Consultation
- Daily Routine
- Early Learning
- Emotional Regulation
- Language
- Play
- Preschool
- Reinforcement
- School Age
- Skill Building
- Social Skills
A Speech-Language Pathologist will conduct a parent interview and screen your child to determine speech, language and/or social communication skills. Based on parent focus and child’s skill level, SLP will work with child, demonstrate strategies and coach the caregiver in order to facilitate learning and help transition skills to home.
Service Providers
ABA Northern Services and Training Inc.
Applied Behaviour Analytic Services
Breakthrough Speech & Language Therapy
Brenna Lanktree and Associates, Inc.
George Jeffrey Children's Centre
Kerry Maisels Behaviour Consulting Inc
Northern Outreach & Clinical Services