Children's Treatment Centre

Adaptive Technical Services (ATS) is a small multi-disciplinary team in Development and Rehabilitation consisting of: an Electronics Technologist, a Rehabilitation Assistant, and an Occupational Therapist.

Adaptive Toys & Tech Resource Centre Registration Form

The CHEO Preschool is a half-day licensed program for children with physical disabilities and accompanying developmental difficulties who require a specialized environment.

We offer therapeutically based preschool program with resources and support to the child and family.

Our team is made up of:

• early childhood educators
• physiotherapists
• occupational therapists
• speech-language pathologists

Our preschool (Smyth Road) offers service in English and French and accepts children 2 - 5 years old who receive services from the Children's Treatment Centre and live in Ottawa.

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) refers to communication methods that supplement or replace speech or writing. These can include non-verbal communication techniques such as facial expressions, eye gaze and gestures, as well as systems and devices such as:

• communication displays with pictures/symbols/words
• electronic devices with voice output
• adapted computer systems9

CHEO's Clinic for Augmentative Communication (CAC) may provide communication services to children and youth (0-18 years of age):

• with limited speech or whose speech is hard to understand to meet daily needs at home and/or
• who have difficulty producing written work at home

The CAC is designated as an expanded level clinic by the Assistive Devices Program (ADP) and therefore is able to prescribe a range of AAC devices and obtain funding for lease or purchase, as appropriate.

Learn more about the Clinic for Augmentative Communication

Coordinated Service Planning supports children and youth with multiple or complex special needs. We also support families through a service planning coordinator who can quickly connect families to the services they need. The coordinator will help monitor your child's needs and their progress through a coordinated service plan.

Coordinated Service Planning - CHEO

Our developmental pediatricians and psychologists provide assessment and diagnosis services for children and youth with physical and developmental concerns. These services are provided to families throughout our coverage area.

Diagnostic Assessment Services - CHEO

Partnership with community pediatricians for diagnostic assessment for Autism Spectrum Disorder, for children aged 5 and under.

Diagnostic Assessment Services - CHEO

The Enhanced Parenting program is an individualized in-home basic parent education program. This program serves families within Ottawa.

Parents accessing this program must report learning difficulties and/or a developmental delay, and have a child in the home under the age of 6. This program consists of home visits with an Early Childhood Consultant and will address areas such as:

• safety
• nutrition
• hygiene
• routine
• child development
• parent child interaction
• child budgeting

The Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Worker program is one of Ontario’s 6 FASD initiatives, designed to provide clinical support and system navigation to children and youth with confirmed or suspected Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and their families.

FASD Workers provide customized FASD education workshops to professionals and agency staff to improve their ability to support people with FASD.

CHEO has collaborated with Citizen Advocacy Ottawa’s Fetal Alcohol Resource Program (FARP) to deliver the FASD Worker Program in the regions of Ottawa, Prescott Russell, and Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry. Service is offered in both official languages.

FASD Worker Program

The Infant and Child Development Program (ICDP) is for families with children who are referred to and/or are receiving service from CHEO Children’s Treatment Centre (CTC). Consultation with CHEO staff, strategies, resources and information will be available. The Learn and Play group is offered to children from birth to 6 years old.

Please note: If you or your child are showing signs of illness, please refrain from attending the group. CHEO staff reserves the right to refuse entry if a parent or child are exhibiting signs of illness.

Registration is required for certain groups.

All groups will be offered in English and French and facilitated by CHEO and EarlyON Child and Family Centre Learn and play group staff.

Barrhaven

Please note: registration is required for this group, please contact the group facilitator Margaret Saba below.

Time

Thursdays between 10:00am - 11:30am.

Location

EarlyON Child and Family Centre, Mothercraft Ottawa

75 Waterbridge Drive, Nepean (Farley Mowat Public School)

More Information

Margaret Saba
Phone: 613-831-5111
Email: msaba@cheo.on.ca

EarlyON Child and Family Centre Mothercraft
Phone: 613-728-1839 ext. 228

Please bring a nut-free snack for your child.

Kanata

Time

Tuesdays between 10:00am and 11:30am

Location

EarlyON Child and Family Centre
Kanata / West Carleton
2 MacNeil Court, 1st floor

More Information

Denyse Deslauriers
Phone: 613-831-5112
Email:  ddeslauriers@cheo.on.ca

EarlyON Child and Family Centre
Phone: 613-591-3686 ext. 490

Please bring a nut-free snack for your child.

Ottawa-Vanier

Time

Mondays between 9:30am and 11:30am

Location

Central East EarlyON Child and Family Centre
270 Marier Ave

Parking on the side of the building

More Information

Chantal Chatigny
Phone: 613-688-2126 ext. 4021
Email: cchatigny@cheo.on.ca

Central East EarlyON Child and Family Centre
Phone: 613-744-2892 ext. 1432

Please bring a nut-free snack.

We support and receive support from medical clinics, including:

• developmental pediatricians
• neurology
• physiatrist
• orthopedic surgeons
• nurses
• dieticians

Our recreation therapy team provides skills and resources for children and youth to participate in meaningful recreation in their community.

We offer group programs and some individual consultation that allows our clients to try new recreation activities, discover new interests and build life skills.

To make a referral, please contact the CHEO Access Team:

• Phone: 613-737-2757 or 1-800-565-4839
• Fax: 613-738-4841

We offer out-of-home respite services for families living within Ottawa. We give emotional support to families caring for a child or youth with significant health challenges.

We offer:

• respite for medically fragile or technologically dependent children and youth, and their families
• respite programs for children living with autism spectrum disorder
• respite programs for youth living with autism spectrum disorder
• summer programs

To make a referral, please contact the CHEO Access Team:

• Phone: 613-737-2757 or 1-800-565-4839
• Fax: 613-738-4841

Our seating and mobility team works with clients up to age 18 with complex medical, neurological or orthopedic needs. We work closely with the client and their family to provide comfortable, functional seating and mobility equipment that meets their needs.

Our multidisciplinary team is made up of:

• occupational therapists
• physiotherapists
• administrative assistants
• program assistants

The CTC social work team offers support and counselling to families of our clients, up until the child's 18th birthday. The social work team is made up of social workers and family resource workers. They work towards the social and emotional well-being of children, adolescents and their families. We strive to provide accessible and timely support.

On-call Service

We offer over the phone consultation and support with a CTC social worker. Please call 613-737-0871 (press 2926 or 0). You can reach us Monday to Friday from 9 am to 3 pm A social worker will call you back the same day or next day.

• occupational therapists

• speech-language pathologists

• rehabilitation assistants

395 Smyth Road

Ottawa, ON K1H 8L2

Tel: 613-737-0871

Fax: 613-523-5167

Toll Free: 1-800-565-4839

Located in the Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre

2 MacNeil Court

Ottawa, ON K2L 4H7

Tel: 613-831-5098

Fax: 613-831-9098

Toll Free: 1-866-391-2914

2211 Thurston Drive

Ottawa, ON K1G 6C9

Tel: 613-737-7600 ext. 2500

Fax: 613-738-4230

Located at the back of the Renfrew Victoria Hospital

499 Raglan Street North

Renfrew, ON K7V 1P6

Tel: 613-433-8239

Fax: 613-433-8265

Toll Free: 1-888-790-9166

600 Campbell Street, suite 100

Cornwall, ON K6H 6C9

Tel: 613-932-2327

Fax: 613-932-5688

Toll Free: 1-866-558-2327