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Services offered

The Children's Treatment Centre (CTC) offers many services for children with a variety of challenges including:

  • developmental disabilities
  • physical disabilities
  • severe hearing and speaking difficulties
  • complex or multiple special needs

Learn about the services and programs we offer:

Adaptive Technical Services

Our Adaptive Technical Services team promotes and facilitates the use and customization of adaptive technology and toys. Our goal is to enhance learning and play for children and youth with special needs. We offer consultations and toy and tech adaptions.

We operate the Adaptive Toys & Tech Resource Centre at both our Smyth Road and Kanata locations. We also offer appointments at other sites.

Clients can access our resource centre and borrow the following items:

  • Toys geared towards children with complex and special needs
  • Educational software
  • Some reference books and DVD's
  • Communication devices
  • Specialized computer items (adapted keyboards, mice, etc.)

These resources can be used to help children practice the communication, literacy and motor skills being worked on at home, in school or therapy.

Registration is required to access these resources. Please fill out and return to toysandtech@cheo.on.ca for processing.

Adaptive Technical Services registration form

CHEO Preschool

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.

Clinic for Augmentative Communication (CAC)

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 systems

CHEO's 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

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

Diagnostic Services - Psychology and Developmental Pediatricians

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

Diagnostic Services - ASD Diagnostic Hub

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

Diagnostic Assessment Services - CHEO

Enhanced Parenting

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

FASD Worker Program

The FASD Worker program is one of Ontario’s six 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 & Glengarry. Service is offered in both official languages.

FASD Worker Program

Infant and Child Development Program (ICDP)

The Infant and Child Development Program 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.

Medical clinics

We support and receive support from medical clinics, including:

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

Recreation therapy

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

Respite services

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

Seating and mobility

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

Social Work

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.

Therapy teams

CTC therapy teams provide assessment, treatment, consultation and education to meet your child's needs. 

Our team is made up of: 

  • physiotherapists 
  • occupational therapists 
  • speech-language pathologists 
  • rehabilitation assistants 

We offer direct therapy services to children under the age of four at one of our Ottawa Community Locations. 

Contact us

Our Children's Treatment Centre services are located at our main site on Smyth Road in central Ottawa. Additional programming and services are available at our sites in Kanata, East Ottawa, Renfrew and Cornwall.

Central Ottawa locations

395 Smyth Road

Ottawa, ON K1H 8L2

Tel: 613-737-0871

Fax: 613-523-5167

Toll Free: 1-800-565-4839

Western Ottawa location – Kanata

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

Eastern Ottawa location

2211 Thurston Drive

Ottawa, ON K1G 6C9

Tel: 613-737-7600 ext. 2500

Fax: 613-738-4230

Renfrew County location

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

Eastern Counties location — Cornwall

600 Campbell Street, suite 100

Cornwall, ON K6H 6C9

Tel: 613-932-2327

Fax: 613-932-5688

Toll Free: 1-866-558-2327

Make a referral

To make a referral for CTC services, please contact the CHEO Access Team at:

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

Cancelling your appointment

To provide services to as many children and youth as possible, we ask that you keep all of your appointments. If you need to cancel or reschedule your appointment, please call is as soon as possible.

Please call to reschedule if your child has been having these symptoms in the past 24 hours:

  • fever
  • vomiting
  • diarrhea
  • cough
  • congestion

If you aren't sure if you need to reschedule, call us and we can discuss.

If two appointments are missed without notification, or if you cancel three appointments in a three-month period, we may re-examine your services.

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