Preschool Resource Consultant
The Resource Consultant services through Niagara Children’s Centre are geared towards supporting families who meet the service criteria for specialized supports, within EarlyON sites and within designated Child Care Centres across Niagara for French Services (outside of Welland/Pelham). In partnership with educators and support personnel, our Resource Consultants will provide formal/informal assessments and work in conjunction with a child’s team of specialists at Niagara Children’s Centre (as appropriate) to create goals and offer strategies to optimize each child’s development all within an inclusive, play-based group program at the EarlyON sites and designated Child Care Centres. If your child is actively involved in Centre services, please speak to your child's therapist. Referrals can be made by EarlyON staff: EarlyON staff Referral Portal
Preschool Resource Consultant - French
Referrals can be made by Designated Child Care Centres, across Niagara for French Services (outside of Welland/Pelham): Designated Child Care Centres - French Services
Aquatics
Niagara Children’s Centre aquatic services provide opportunities to enhance physiotherapy, occupational therapy and recreation activities, and enable children to further develop their functional skills. In addition to program- and service-based activities, the Centre also offers open swim programs for children and their families who may not be able to participate in community-based pool programs due to their condition.
https://www.niagarachildrenscentre.com/aquatics
ASD Services
Niagara Children’s Centre supports children and youth diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, as well as their families, with a variety of programs and services. These include services under the OAP provided in partnership with the Centre and other community partners.
https://www.niagarachildrenscentre.com/autism
Behaviour Consultation
The behaviour consultant at Niagara Children’s Centre works to enhance child and family participation and quality of life by providing support to clinicians and families for managing behaviour concerns of children with identified needs. Methods of support include assessment, consultation and education.
https://www.niagarachildrenscentre.com/behaviour
Coordinated Service Planning
Coordinated Service Planning (CSP) was created to support families and improve service experiences and outcomes for children and youth with multiple and/or complex special needs. Through the support of a Service Planning Coordinator, families will experience an integrated, collaborative, and family-centered coordinated service planning process that will result in a single coordinated plan.
https://www.niagarachildrenscentre.com/coordinated-service-planning
Family Supports
We offer a variety of Family Education and Support opportunities that are open to families of children and youth under 18 with diagnosed or identified physical, developmental, or communicative delays or disabilities. The child does not need to be receiving active Centre services.
https://www.niagarachildrenscentre.com/family-supports
Infant Hearing Language services
The Niagara Children’s Centre is pleased to be partners with Affiliated Services for Children and Youth (ASCY)’s Central South Infant Hearing Program. At Niagara Children’s Centre, we provide language services to eligible children identified by the Infant Hearing Program, in collaboration with designated Infant Hearing Program audiologists, family support workers, and families. Speech-language pathologists are specially trained to support the development of spoken language through listening and development of communication skills in children with permanent hearing loss.
https://www.niagarachildrenscentre.com/infant-hearing-program
School-Based Rehabilitation Services (OT, PT, SLP)
School-Based Rehabilitation Services (SBRS) are available to children attending publicly funded schools until the age of 21. The mandate of SBRS is to provide Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, and Speech-Language Pathology services for students in order for the student to attend school, participate in school routines, and receive instruction.
https://www.niagarachildrenscentre.com/school-based-rehabilitation-services
Social Work
Social Workers are a regulated body of professionals who seek to empower and support children/youth and their families. Areas of support for families and youth include: brief solution-focused counselling related to disability, assisting with disability-based funding, connecting families with resources within their community, and assisting/supporting transition processes (school, high school, adulthood, major home modification planning, etc.)
https://www.niagarachildrenscentre.com/social-work
Special Services at Home (SSAH)
Niagara Children’s Centre provides support to parents in applying for Special Services at Home (SSAH) funding as well as in administering SSAH funding on behalf of families. The SSAH program helps families who are caring for a child/youth with a developmental and/or physical disability.
https://www.niagarachildrenscentre.com/SSAH