CLINICAL SERVICES
ABA/IBI
We provide safe, compassionate, and evidence-based care to help children with autism and developmental differences reach their full potential. Our Intensive Behavioural Intervention or IBI services deliver 20–40 hours of one-on-one instruction per week, provided daily to offer high rates of consistent learning opportunities. These programs cover multiple developmental areas, including: communication, social skills, life skills, play, academic skills, and daily routines. For children requiring a less intensive approach, focused Applied Behavioural Analysis or ABA programs work on targeting a smaller set of skills. Therapists focus on specific learning goals to promote steady progress. ABA services delivered at fewer hours generally focus on one or two skill areas. All programs are custom-designed to meet each child’s unique needs and delivered in a highly structured environment. Individualized Behaviour Intervention Programs: - 1:1 therapy tailored to each child’s unique needs - Data-driven, evidence-based strategies grounded in Applied Behaviour Analysis - Clear, measurable goals targeting communication, social skills, daily living, play, self-regulation, and academics Programs focus on: - Joint attention and cooperation - Receptive and expressive language - Play, leisure, and social interaction - Life skills and daily routines - Small group instruction and classroom routines - Academic skills: reading, writing, math, and spelling Data is collected daily and monitored by both the Instructor Therapist and Senior Therapist to ensure each program is effective.
ABLLS-R
The Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills – Revised or ABLLS-R is a comprehensive assessment tool used to evaluate the skills of children with autism and other developmental differences. It helps identify a child’s strengths and areas for growth across language, learning, and daily living skills. How It Works: The assessment covers hundreds of skills across multiple domains, including communication, social interaction, self-care, academics, motor skills, and play. Therapists observe and assess the child’s current abilities, often through direct observation, structured tasks, and caregiver input. Results are used to create an individualized learning plan tailored to the child’s needs, ensuring therapy targets the skills that will have the greatest impact on their daily life. Progress is tracked over time, allowing therapists and families to monitor growth, adjust goals, and celebrate achievements. The ABLLS-R ensures that every child’s program is personalized, data-driven, and focused on meaningful skills, helping children with ASD develop communication, independence, social skills, and academic readiness in a structured and supportive way.
PEAK - Relational Training Systems
What is PEAK? PEAK (Promoting the Emergence of Advanced Knowledge) is an evidence-based curriculum designed to help children with autism and developmental differences learn new skills, generalize them across contexts, and develop independence. Unlike traditional teaching methods, PEAK encourages learners to apply previously taught skills to acquire new skills, fostering true “learn to learn” abilities. This approach supports the development of critical thinking, problem-solving, and self-directed learning. PEAK is suitable for children and adolescents with programs tailored to individual learning needs. PEAK uses a combination of full assessments and pre-assessments to identify strengths and areas for growth: Full Assessments: Indirectly evaluate a child’s skills by reviewing a comprehensive list of behaviours and noting those the learner demonstrates. Pre-Assessments: Directly assess skills one-on-one with the learner during sessions, helping pinpoint specific areas that need support. PEAK programs cover Five Key Domains: - Direct Training: Teaching skills systematically to build foundational abilities. - Generalization: Ensuring skills can be applied across settings and situations. - Equivalence: Helping learners understand relationships between concepts. - Transformation: Supporting higher-level thinking and problem-solving. - PEAK Life: Applying skills to real-world, functional tasks that promote independence. Skill Areas Addressed: - Foundational Learning Skills: Requests, imitation, following instructions - Perceptual Learning Skills: Identifying, matching, and sorting objects - Verbal Comprehension Skills: Understanding and answering questions - Verbal Reasoning & Memory: Responding to situations, recalling past events - Math Skills: Working with numbers, quantities, and money PEAK is clinical, evidence-based, and highly effective for promoting skill acquisition, generalization, and independent learning. By teaching children how to learn, PEAK helps them reach their full potential across communication, cognition, social skills, and life skills.
Parent Support/Coaching
We offer specialized Parent Support to empower families with the tools, strategies, and confidence to support their child’s progress beyond therapy sessions. When parents are actively involved in ABA methods, children make faster progress, generalize skills more effectively, and achieve meaningful gains across daily life. What it Includes: - Understanding Your Child’s Program: Learn your child’s goals, teaching methods, and strategies to apply consistently at home and in the community. - Behaviour Management: Evidence-based techniques to reduce challenging behaviours, reinforce positive alternatives, and respond in ways that promote lasting behavioural improvement. - Communication & Social Skills Support: Guidance on supporting your child’s ability to communicate needs and interact successfully with family members and peers. - Daily Routines & Life Skills: Practical strategies to integrate learning into everyday activities, including mealtimes, play, transitions, and errands. - Generalization Across Settings: Learn how to help your child use newly acquired skills across home, school, and community, supporting independence and real-world success. - Sessions are tailored to your child and family’s needs, delivered one-on-one. - Parents receive hands-on coaching, modelling, and feedback using behavioural skills training to ensure confidence in implementing strategies. Parent Support / Coaching is more than instruction—it’s a partnership that extends therapy into everyday life, helping your child reach their full potential with the support of the people who know them best.
Occupational Therapy (OT)
We partner with Lighthouse Occupational Therapy to support children in building skills, confidence, and independence in daily life. Occupational therapy helps children succeed in self-care, school, play, and community activities by addressing challenges that may impact their functional abilities or confidence. Services Include: - Self-care, fine and gross motor skills - Sensory processing and self-regulation - Social skills and communication - Visual-motor and perception skills - Organization, technology, accessibility, and safety
Speech & Language Pathology (SLP)
We partner with A to Z Speech to provide comprehensive speech and language therapy for children with a wide range of communication needs. Their team assesses and treats speech, language, voice, swallowing, and cognitive-communication challenges, helping children improve clarity, comprehension, expression, and social communication skills. Areas of Focus Include: - Articulation & Motor Speech Disorders: Improve clarity and confidence in speech. - Receptive & Expressive Language: Support understanding and use of language in daily life. - Social Communication Skills: Build conversational skills, friendships, and social understanding, including through group programs. - Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC): Assist non-speaking children using devices, pictures, or sign language. - Reading & Writing: Support literacy, phonological awareness, and written expression. Speech therapy is delivered by speech-language pathologists and supported by communication disorder assistants, ensuring therapy goals are effectively implemented. This service benefits children with autism, developmental delays, genetic conditions, and other communication challenges.
Behaviour Reduction Plans & Programming
We develop and implement individualized Behaviour Support Plans grounded in clinical best practices and data-driven decision-making. Each plan is designed with clearly defined goals, measurable outcomes, and ongoing supervision to ensure consistency and effectiveness across environments. Our approach focuses on: - Comprehensive functional assessment to identify the underlying causes of behaviour - Teaching alternative, functional, and socially appropriate behaviours - Ongoing data collection, monitoring, and program adjustments based on progress - Collaboration and coaching for caregivers, educators, and the clinical team to support skill generalization - When required, we provide crisis intervention and proactive safety planning to support the child and those around them. All programming is delivered by CPI-trained staff, ensuring safe, respectful, and supportive responses to challenging behaviours. Services are delivered through structured 1:1 intervention and are informed by comprehensive assessments and ongoing clinical oversight.
Clinical Oversight & Quality Assurance
Every program is thoughtfully and collaboratively developed in partnership with families and guided by comprehensive clinical oversight. Programs are reviewed and refined on an ongoing basis to ensure meaningful progress, consistency, and long-term success across home, school, and community environments. All services are supervised by a Registered Behaviour Analyst (RBA) and Clinical Psychologist (C.Psych), ensuring that intervention strategies are clinically sound, individualized, and aligned with each child’s unique strengths and needs. Our trained and supervised therapists deliver services within a structured clinical setting, maintaining high standards of care and professionalism. We are committed to ethical, evidence-based practice, adhering to the RBA Ethics Code and the standards set by the Ontario Autism Program (OAP). Continuous data collection, regular progress reviews, and collaborative team meetings allow us to monitor outcomes closely and make timely program adjustments to support optimal learning and development. This layered approach to clinical supervision and quality assurance ensures accountability, transparency, and the highest level of care for the children and families we serve.
ADDITIONAL SERVICES
Summer Camp & March Break
Our March Break and Summer Camps offer a fun, structured, and supportive environment where children can build meaningful skills while enjoying exciting seasonal activities. Camps run from 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM, with before- and after-care available. Programs are designed for children in the following age groups: 4–6, 7–10, and 11–14, and are covered under Core Clinical ABA Services. All programming is clinically supervised by a Registered Clinical Psychologist and RBA team, ensuring evidence-based, individualized support for every child. Eligibility and screening are required. What We Work On - Through engaging group activities and individualized support, campers work on: - Social skills (turn-taking, cooperation, communication, and peer interactions) - Life skills and independence - Cooking and simple food preparation activities - Emotional regulation and flexibility - Following routines and group expectations - Fine and gross motor development - Creativity, play, and leisure skills - Camp Activities & Theme Days Each week is packed with themed days, outings, and hands-on experiences. This balanced approach allows children to have fun, build friendships, and continue developing essential skills in a safe, supportive, and clinically guided environment.
Respite
Our Respite Services provide children with a safe, supportive, and engaging environment where they can continue to learn, grow, and develop new skills. Our trained team offers structured activities tailored to each child’s needs, fostering social, communication, and daily living skills in a positive and nurturing setting. These services also give families the opportunity to manage their schedules while knowing their child is receiving consistent, high-quality care. Our goal is to support both children and families, helping each child reach their full potential in a caring and inclusive environment.
Saturday Social Skills
Our Saturday Social Skills Groups are designed for children ages 3–6 and 7–12, providing a fun, engaging, and supportive environment to develop essential social and life skills. Over 6 or 8-week sessions, participants take part in a variety of activities that encourage growth in social skills, friendship building, life skills, group and motor activities, arts and crafts, cooking, and sensory play. These sessions help children develop communication, cooperation, independence, creativity, and confidence, all while making meaningful connections and enjoying a positive group experience.
Pre-Teen Boys & Pre-Teen Girls Social Skills Groups
Pre-Teen Girls Social Skills Group Our social skills group for pre-teen girls ages 10 to 13 provides a supportive and engaging environment to build essential social and life skills. Participants practice communication, friendship development, confidence, and teamwork through structured activities. The program also focuses on impulse control and emotional regulation, helping girls develop self-expression, positive social interaction, and resilience. Pre-Teen Boys Social Skills Group This social skills group for pre-teen boys ages 10 to 13 focuses on understanding social cues, building friendships, improving self-control, and strengthening communication skills. Participants engage in interactive activities, creative projects, group challenges, and role-playing. The program also emphasizes emotional regulation, impulse control, and internet safety, providing a safe and supportive environment for boys to practice skills and build confidence.
Teen Group
Our social skills program for teens ages 13 to 18 provides a supportive and engaging environment to develop essential social, emotional, and life skills. Participants take part in structured activities designed to enhance communication, friendship development, emotional regulation, and internet safety. Teens practice verbal, non-verbal, and written communication, learn to initiate conversations, share interests, and resolve conflicts, and explore strategies for managing emotions. The program also covers online safety and responsible technology use, helping participants protect personal information and navigate risks such as scams, cyberbullying, and identity theft.
Youth Hub
The Youth Hub is a social program for teens and young adults that provides a supportive environment to develop essential social, emotional, and life skills. Participants engage in structured activities that enhance communication, friendship development, emotional regulation, and real-world social skills. Through fun and interactive exercises, participants practice verbal, non-verbal, and written communication, build meaningful friendships, and develop strategies for managing emotions. The program also focuses on practical decision-making, problem-solving, and independent living skills, including cooking and safe food handling.
Academic Tutoring
Some children may face challenges reaching their full academic potential due to factors such as the language used for instructions, a noisy environment, frequent changes in routines, or being surrounded by distractions. These challenges can lead to confusion, frustration, or a lack of confidence in learning. At IBI Behavioural Services, our personalized academic tutoring is designed to support each child in a calm, focused, and supportive environment—often in the comfort of their own home. Our tutoring programs are tailored to your child’s individual learning needs, ensuring that lessons are engaging, effective, and aligned with their pace and style of learning. We follow the Ontario curriculum and incorporate evidence-based strategies to help children develop strong academic skills while building confidence and independence. Flexible scheduling allows us to accommodate your family’s unique requirements, ensuring learning fits seamlessly into your child’s routine. Education can be challenging, but with the right guidance, tools, and a collaborative approach between parents, teachers, and our dedicated tutors, children can surpass expectations and reach their fullest potential.
School Observation
Your child’s success in school depends on understanding their unique strengths and needs. Our school observation services provide educators and support staff with insights that help foster both academic and social growth tailored to your child. Through direct observation in the school environment, regular meetings with the school, our team identifies areas where your child may need support and develops strategies to enhance learning, communication, and behaviour. Services include: - Direct observation in the classroom and school setting - Behavioural and communication strategies to support social and academic growth - Assistance with program modifications and Individualized Education Plan (IEP) development - Sensory integration support to enhance focus and engagement - Promotion of functional skills across daily activities - Environmental adjustments to maximize skill generalization - Implementation of specialized programs, such as visual aids, to support learning - Consultation and program support for school staff to ensure continuity and consistency By collaborating with teachers, parents, and support staff, our school observation services help create a learning environment where your child can thrive and reach their full potential.