Early Years - Supporting children’s development at home.
Empowering Families to Foster Growth and Learning
Families and caregivers will receive training to learn therapeutic strategies and techniques tailored to their child's specific needs. The training will focus on enhancing parents' and caregivers' ability to promote their child's development in various areas, including social interaction, play, communication, emotional growth, adaptive development, and self-help skills. The Geneva Centre for Autism provides parent and caregiver training through Project ImPACT (Improving Parents as Communication Teachers).
This program is funded through the Ontario Autism Program (OAP) and offered at our centre, with registration through the Toronto Autism Services Network (TASN).
Program benefits:
- Families and caregivers learn strategies from professionals
- Individualized skill-building goals
- Meet other parents/caregivers during caregiver group sessions
- 1 to 1 coaching from your CMEY staff
- Uses a combination of ABA and developmental strategies to increase social communication
- Flexible schedules to meet family needs
Eligibility criteria:
- Your child is between the ages of 12 to 48 months
- Your child is registered in the Ontario Autism Program (OAP)
- You have received an invitation to participate in the program from Access OAP