Bridge services

Your child will receive a personalized assessment and service plan supervised by a board certified behaviour analyst (BCBA). Your child will work on their individualized goals in 1:1 therapy and in small groups in our unique classroom setting. 

Your child will benefit from highly structured activities focusing on communication, play, learning readiness, self-care, self-regulation, and transitioning through tasks and activities.

As parents and caregivers, you will be invited to participate in some coaching sessions to learn strategies to support your child in a variety of environments and situations.

Select from:

two or four full days per  week

(9 a.m.-3 p.m.) 

or

two or four half days per week (mornings or afternoons)

Industrial Avenue 

Kanata 

Cornwall 

If your child is beginning to develop play skills and an interest in being near others, come join us for Let’s Play I

Across 11 weeks, CHEO’S ABA-trained staff utilize Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) based strategies to help your child to learn to play with various toys and be near peers in a safe and fun environment. 

In their social skills group, your child will practice skills like manipulating various toys, engaging in parallel play, sharing toys, participating in short group activities and promoting positive social interactions.

This group is the first of our Let’s Play series where children new to peer interactions and sharing can develop these skills in a supported environment.

**Spaces limited**

Saturdays 

(8:30-10:00am)

Industrial Avenue 

If your child can communicate independently and is interested in their peers, come join us for Friendship Frenzie II

Across 11 weeks, CHEO’S ABA-trained staff utilize Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) based strategies to help your child to learn about friendship while they practice skills that promote conversation in a safe and fun environment. 

In their social skills group, your child will practice skills like starting/ending conversations, sharing a conversation, joining social games and promoting positive social interactions.

This group is a continuation of our Friendship Frienzie I.  Participation in Friendship Frenzie I is not required in order to participate in Friendship Frenzie II.

Saturdays 
(1:30-3:30 p.m.) 

Kanata

Industrial Avenue (available in French and English)   

If your pre-teen can communicate independently and is looking for coping strategies to deal with big emotions, come join us for Get in the Zone I

Across 11 weeks, CHEO’s ABA-trained staff use the The Zones of Regulation framework to teach your pre-teen self regulation and self control through recognizing and communicating how they're feeling in a safe, non-judgmental way.

In their social skills group, your pre-teen will practice skills like emotional regulation, communicating how they are feeling and playing group games to practice their new skills.

As parents, you will also receive educational materials to help support your pre-teen at home and in the community.

**Spaces limited**

Saturdays 

 (10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.)

Kanata

If your pre-teen can communicate independently and is looking for coping strategies to deal with big emotions, come join us for Get in the Zone II

Across 11 weeks, CHEO’s ABA-trained staff use the The Zones of Regulation framework to teach your pre-teen self regulation and self control through recognizing and communicating how they're feeling in a safe, non-judgmental way.

In their social skills group, your pre-teen will practice skills like emotional regulation, communicating how they are feeling and playing group games to practice their new skills.

As parents, you will also receive educational materials to help support your pre-teen at home and in the community.

This group is a continuation of our Get in the Zone I.  Participation in Get in the Zone I is not required in order to participate in Get in the Zone II.

**Spaces limited**

Saturdays

(10:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m.)

Industrial Avenue

A CHEO ABA-trained therapist will work with you and your child or youth to identify individualized goal(s) toward learning new skills and/or managing behaviours. Your child or youth will receive a personalized assessment and service plan that is grounded in ABA based intervention and supervised by a board certified behaviour analyst (BCBA).

Your child or youth will then receive 1:1 therapy sessions to work toward individual goals. Parents are encouraged to participate so they can use their skills in a variety of environments.

1-2 hour weekly therapy sessions  across approximately 12 weeks

Tuesday - Thursday from 9 a.m.- 8 p.m.  and Mondays and Fridays from 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.

All locations

Focused 20/40 - ABA based intervention

A CHEO ABA-trained therapist will work with you and your child or youth to identify individualized goal(s) toward learning new skills and/or managing behaviours. Your child or youth will receive a personalized assessment and service plan that is grounded in ABA based intervention and supervised by a board certified behaviour analyst (BCBA).

Your child or youth will then receive 1:1 therapy sessions to work toward individual goals. Parents are encouraged to participate so they can use their skills in a variety of environments.

1-2 hour weekly therapy sessions  across approximately 12 weeks

Tuesday - Thursday from 9 a.m.- 8 p.m.  and Mondays and Fridays from 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.

All locations