Youth Game and Pizza Party night is an opportunity for youths 12- 16 with ASD.
- Communication
- Play
- Resilience
- Social Skills
- Teens
Youth Game and Pizza Party night is an opportunity for youths 12- 16 with ASD to socialize with other youth, make new friends, and play some fun games. Caregivers are asked to stay and participate. Pizza dinner and games will be provided.
Family Meet and Greet is an opportunity for families with children with ASD ages 0-18. All abilities welcome.
- Communication
- Play
- Resilience
- School Age
- Social Skills
- Teens
Family Meet and Greet is an opportunity for families with children with ASD ages 0-18 to spend a few hours socializing, having fun, and meeting with other autism families while creating and exploring activities and games. Pizza dinner and refreshments will be provided.
All abilities welcome.
Family Meet and Greet is an opportunity for families with children with ASD ages 0-18. All abilities welcome.
- Communication
- Play
- Resilience
- School Age
- Siblings
- Social Skills
- Teens
Family Meet and Greet is an opportunity for families with children with ASD ages 0-18 to spend a few hours socializing, having fun, and meeting with other autism families while creating and exploring activities and games. Pizza dinner and refreshments will be provided.
All abilities welcome.
This service is intended for those who can participate in a group setting without additional support. For example, Sibshops would not be a good fit if the sibling needed a support person in the school environment. Sibshops is also not appropriate for those siblings who are querying or undergoing an ASD assessment for themselves.
- Mental health
- School Age
- Siblings
- Teens
Sibshops is an opportunity for those who have a sibling with an ASD diagnosis. Sibshops is not therapy, but rather a venue for sibs to have fun, laugh, talk about the good and not-so-good parts, play some great games, learn something about the services/diagnosis of their brothers or sisters, and have some more fun. This session includes snacks and lunch.
This service is intended for those who can participate in a group setting without additional support. For example, Sibshops would not be a good fit if the sibling needed a support person in the school environment. Sibshops is also not appropriate for those siblings who are querying or undergoing an ASD assessment for themselves.
- Mental health
- School Age
- Siblings
- Teens
Sibshops is an opportunity for those who have a sibling with an ASD diagnosis. Sibshops is not therapy, but rather a venue for sibs to have fun, laugh, talk about the good and not-so-good parts, play some great games, learn something about the services/diagnosis of their brothers or sisters, and have some more fun. This session includes snacks and lunch.
This service is not intended for those unable to follow instructions within a group setting, with maladaptive behavior that may put other children at risk, or those who are unable to attend school.
- Mental health
- School Age
- Siblings
- Teens
Practice and boost social skills through our fun and active March Break Social Skills. Skills that will be focused on include:
- Sportsmanship
- Taking turns
- Sharing
- Compromising
Reserved for children and families who are not engaged in a similar service with another provider. Children who engage in any of the following are not eligible for this service:
- self-injury
- aggression
- property destruction
- pica
- other potentially dangerous behaviour
- client actively receiving direct ABA services, or services via telehealth that are supervised by a Registered and/or Board Certified Behaviour Analyst (BCBA)
Please note: Children under the age of 3 are also eligible for this service.
- Applied Behaviour Analysis
- Consultation
- Preschool
- Skill Building
Following a 1-hour consultation meeting with our on-site BCBA, your child will receive 6 hours of 1:1 follow up service/caregiver coaching with our clinical team, at our center, for up to 4 weeks. Session dates and times will be arranged with each individual family.
- Behaviour
- Caregiver Training
- Coaching
- Consultation
- Skill Building
This program uses a collaborative approach to provide caregivers with the tools they need to prevent challenging behaviours from worsening. Participants will also be equipped with the skills needed to support their children to develop communication and coping strategies in the home environment.
- Applied Behaviour Analysis
- Caregiver Training
This workshop will provide caregivers with a practical introduction to some of the core principles of ABA that they can use to meet some of their child’s needs at home. There will also be an opportunity for caregivers to gain information and ask questions regarding the service landscape of the different services that are using an ABA approach with children in Thunder Bay.
Caregivers with children 3-8 years.
- Antecedent Strategies
- Applied Behaviour Analysis
- Behaviour
- Caregiver Training
- Coaching
- Communication
- Daily Routine
- Early Learning
- Language
- Play
- Reinforcement
- Skill Building
- Social Skills
This workshop provides an opportunity to learn Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) strategies to teach your child play skills that increase and promote language. Teaching communication skills and expanding your child’s language through play increases skill development across many areas maximizing learning opportunities. There are six individual consults with a BCBA-D included with this workshop. These consultations are individualized specific to implement the strategies reviewed at the workshop with your child.
- Behaviour
- Caregiver Training
- Coaching
- Communication
- Daily Living Skills
- Daily Routine
- Early Learning
- Emotional Regulation
- Life Skills
- Reinforcement
- Skill Building
- Webinar
This workshop will outline strategies on reducing transition related challenging behaviours. We will review how to establish positive rapport, specific steps to cue your child of upcoming changes, strategies when advance notice is viable and ways to prevent and deescalate behaviour. The aim of this workshop is to share strategies that are aimed at reducing challenging behaviours, as a whole.
- Applied Behaviour Analysis
- Daily Living Skills
- Daily Routine
- Independence
- Skill Building
- Toileting
- Webinar
This workshop has two group sessions across two months with four follow up individual sessions with a BCBA-D
Workshop 1: Review ABA strategies on teaching self-help skills
Workshop 2: Identify a self help goal and develop a plan.
Consultation sessions: Follow up progress with a BCBA-D and goal monitoring
Caregivers with children 3-8 years.
- Antecedent Strategies
- Applied Behaviour Analysis
- Behaviour
- Caregiver Training
- Coaching
- Communication
- Daily Routine
- Early Learning
- Language
- Play
- Reinforcement
- Skill Building
- Social Skills
This workshop provides an opportunity to learn Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) strategies to teach your child play skills that increase and promote language. Teaching communication skills and expanding your child’s language through play increases skill development across many areas maximizing learning opportunities. There are six individual consults with a BCBA-D included with this workshop. These consultations are individualized specific to implement the strategies reviewed at the workshop with your child.
Available to full Northern Region
- Antecedent Strategies
- Applied Behaviour Analysis
- Behaviour
- Caregiver Training
- Coaching
- Communication
- Daily Living Skills
- Daily Routine
- Independence
- Play
- Reinforcement
- Skill Building
- Social Skills
- Toileting
- Visuals
- Vocational skills
- Webinar
This service includes 2 caregiver workshops that aim to help caregivers teach their children independent skills.
Workshop 1: Review ABA strategies on teaching self-help skills
Workshop 2: Identify a self-help goal and develop a plan.
There also four consultation sessions - for caregivers to share progress with a BCBA-D
This service is not intended for…those who can participate in a group setting without additional support. For example, Sibshops would not be a good fit if the sibling needed a support person in the school environment. Sibshops is also not appropriate for those siblings who are querying or undergoing an ASD assessment for themselves.
- Siblings
- Social Skills
Sibshops is an opportunity for those who have a siblings win an ASD diagnosis led by our certified and experienced Sibshops Facilitators. Sibshops Is not therapy, but rather a venue for sibs to have fun, talk about the good and not-so-good parts, play games, learn something about the services/ diagnosis of their brothers or sisters, and have some more fun.
This service is not intended for…those who can participate in a group setting without additional support. For example, Sibshops would not be a good fit if the sibling needed a support person in the school environment.
Sibshops is also not appropriate for those siblings who are querying or undergoing an ASD assessment for themselves.
- Siblings
- Social Skills
Sibshops is an opportunity for those who have a siblings win an ASD diagnosis led by our certified and experienced Sibshops Facilitators. Sibshops Is not therapy, but rather a venue for sibs to have fun, talk about the good and not-so-good parts, play games, learn something about the services/ diagnosis of their brothers or sisters, and have some more fun. This session is open to those 9-12 years of age.
Children between the ages of 3-5
- Antecedent Strategies
- Applied Behaviour Analysis
- Assessment
- Behaviour
- Coaching
- Communication
- Consultation
- Daily Routine
- Early Learning
- Independence
- Language
This service is an early communication social group - the small group will focus on the early stages of social interactions (paralell play, turn taking, responding to greetings), alongside communication skills developed through play (requesting, referencing others, and imitation). Each learner will have individualized goals specific to their needs that are measured at each session.
2 caregiver meetings: 1 pre-group and 1 post-group to discuss progress
This service is not intended for…those who can participate in a group setting without additional support. For
example, Sibshops would not be a good fit if the sibling needed a support person in the school environment.
Sibshops is also not appropriate for those siblings who are querying or undergoing an ASD assessment for
themselves.
- Siblings
- Social Skills
Sibshops is an opportunity for those who have a siblings win an ASD diagnosis led by our certified and experienced Sibshops Facilitators. Sibshops Is not therapy, but rather a venue for sibs to have fun, talk about the good and not-so-good parts, play games, learn something about the services/ diagnosis of their brothers or sisters, and have some more fun.
This service is not intended for…those who can participate in a group setting without additional support. For
example, Sibshops would not be a good fit if the sibling needed a support person in the school environment.
Sibshops is also not appropriate for those siblings who are querying or undergoing an ASD assessment for
themselves.
- Siblings
- Social Skills
Sibshops is an opportunity for those who have a siblings win an ASD diagnosis led by our certified and experienced Sibshops Facilitators. Sibshops Is not therapy, but rather a venue for sibs to have fun, talk about the good and not-so-good parts, play games, learn something about the services/ diagnosis of their brothers or sisters, and have some more fun. This service is intended for those ages 9-18 years of age.
The workshop and consultations can be attended in person in Thunder Bay or virtually for families who live in the District.
- Caregiver Training
- Consultation
- Daily Living Skills
- Toileting
This workshop is designed to provide caregivers with the tools they need to support their young child on the journey to toileting success. Beginning with a group-based workshop that will empower caregivers with the foundational skills they need to get started, families will then have the opportunity to meet with an instructor therapist and a behaviour analyst on an individual basis to ask specific questions about how their child is progressing. By the end of the program, caregivers will understand how a consistent approach, visual cues and positive reinforcement can be used to foster routines to enable their child to succeed.
This service is not intended for…those would best benefit from programming to support with maladaptive
behaviours or those with no communication skills.
- School Age
- Skill Building
- Social Skills
- Teens
Our Brief Social Skills Consultation uses Clinically Supervised Progressive ABA to support social skill development. This service includes; individual intake and target determination, 12 hours of skill building services, an individualized schedule, and summary report.
The workshop and consultations can be attended in person in Thunder Bay or virtually for families who live in the District.
- Behaviour
- Caregiver Training
- Consultation
- Reinforcement
- Resilience
- Toileting
This workshop is designed to support caregivers to prepare children to develop healthy responses to limits and boundaries in response to being denied access to an item or activity. Caregivers will be taught techniques that will foster resilience and while encouraging their child to be able to accept "no".
The workshop and consultations can be attended in person in Thunder Bay or virtually for families who live in the District.
- Caregiver Training
- Consultation
- Reinforcement
This program uses a collaborative model to provide participants with the tools they need to support their children in trying new foods while limiting problem behaviours or emotional responses during meal time. Individualized sessions are offered to address specific behaviours that may be impacting a child's willingness to eat a variety of foods.
The workshop and consultations can be attended in person in Thunder Bay.
- Behaviour Prevention
- Caregiver Training
- Consultation
- Emotional Regulation
This program uses a collaborative approach to provide caregivers with the tools they need to prevent challenging behaviours from worsening. Participants will also be equipped with the skills needed to support their children to develop communication and coping strategies in the home environment.
The workshop and consultations can be attended in person in Thunder Bay.
- Behaviour Prevention
- Caregiver Training
- Consultation
- Emotional Regulation
This program uses a collaborative approach to provide caregivers with the tools they need to prevent challenging behaviours from worsening. Participants will also be equipped with the skills needed to support their children to develop communication and coping strategies in the home environment.
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