Autism Services

This group will help parents and caregivers learn strategies to support their child across a variety of group-based activities. The teaching strategies used are based on the science of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) and will help you to prepare your child to transfer their skills to different settings, such as school, recreational activities, camp, etc. The focus will be on learning readiness skills, including attending to a leader/teacher, following a visual schedule, transitioning between activities, and remaining appropriate near peers. Parents/caregivers will participate along with their child within this group, which is facilitated by Autism Therapists who provide hands-on coaching with supervision from an OAP Clinical Supervisor

This group will help parents and caregivers learn strategies to support their child across a variety of group-based activities. The teaching strategies used are based on the science of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) and will help you to prepare your child to transfer their skills to different settings, such as school, recreational activities, camp, etc. The focus will be on learning readiness skills, including attending to a leader/teacher, following a visual schedule, transitioning between activities, and remaining appropriate near peers. Parents/caregivers will participate along with their child within this group, which is facilitated by Autism Therapists who provide hands-on coaching with supervision from an OAP Clinical Supervisor.

Is your child interested in sports? Do they have readiness skills to participate actively with their peers? This group will build upon your child’s interests and readiness skills (e.g., shooting baskets, kicking a soccer ball) by helping them learn to communicate with their teammates, work together (e.g., passing the ball to score a goal), and be a good sport (e.g., winning or losing) while playing various team sports. Parents/caregivers will participate along with their child to support them to practice the strategies taught. This group will be facilitated by Autism Therapists with supervision for an OAP Clinical Supervisor.

The Making Friends group will provide children with opportunities to socialize and build skills to make friends. This group will teach children how to ask peers to play or join activities, respond to feedback from their peers, and further develop their conversational skills. Parents and caregivers will participate along with their child to help coach them to respond and engage with their peers. This group is facilitated by Autism Therapists with supervision from an OAP Clinical Supervisor.

This intake assessment is completed by an OT and is used to evaluate your child’s strengths and needs in the domains of sensory processing, self-regulation, self-care tasks, and fine and gross motor development. The OT will meet with you to review a written report which will provide strategies and make recommendations regarding therapy.

PEERS (Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills) is a teen social skills group that targets: conversational skills; how to find common interests; use humour; be a good host; make a phone call; handle rejection, teasing, bullying, rumours, gossip and disagreements; and how to change a bad reputation. Parent participation is required at each session. Teen and parent groups are run concurrently.  Facilitated by Autism Therapists with supervision from an OAP Clinical Supervisor.