Childhood Disability LINK - LIENS incapacités de l'enfant
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Resources
The following resources have been approved by our research, clinical and family advisory groups. They are either located in the Montreal region or are websites found on the internet. Please browse by category. These resources are to be used at your own discretion: Childhood disability LINK takes no responsibility for any negative event or circumstance that occurs either directly or indirectly, due to the use of any of these resources.
| Treatment programs/centers/schools
- MacKay Rehabilitation Center
The Mackay Rehabilitation Center is a dynamic health care establishment serving children with motor and language impairments as well as the deaf and hard of hearing population of all ages. It is part of the Montréal and Québec rehabilitation networks striving to provide excellence and best practices in rehabilitation for over one hundred years.
 www.mackaycenter.org
- Les Écoles Victor-Doré et Joseph-Charbonneau
A francophone school for children with special needs (website in French only).
www.fondationvdjc.org
- Summit School
Summit School services students, ages 4 to 21, with developmental disabilities including behavioural and emotional disturbances, autism, Down Syndrome and severe learning disabilities. They are referred by parents, school boards, hospitals, and social services agencies. The student body comes from every socio-economic, religious and cultural background.
www.summit-school.com
- The Rehabilitation Centre Marie Enfant of the UHC Sainte-Justine
The Rehabilitation Centre Marie Enfant of the UHC Sainte-Justine provides infants, children and teenagers who have motor or speech difficulties with highly specialized services in the areas of rehabilitation - to include adaptation, integration and social participation.
www.crme-sainte-justine.org
- Giant Steps Montreal
A francophone school for children with P.D.D. (website in French only)
www.giantstepsmontreal.com
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Respite services
- Le Phare
A respite service for children with disability
www.phare-lighthouse.com
- Emergo Respite Services
Emergo is a non-profit organization founded in 1976 by parents of autistic people with the desire of helping other parents like themselves by offering respite services. This is how the first camp able to receive autistic people in Quebec was born.
www.servicesderepitemergo.com
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Web-based information for families
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Cerebral Palsy Resources
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My Child Without Limits
An excellent and comforting resource for parents of newly-diagnosed children with Cerebral Palsy (CP). Helps to understand what CP is, offers guidance on planning, as well as provides opportunities for action and outreach.
www.mychildwithoutlimits.org
- CP-Engine
A bilingual website with a focus on CP rehabilitation and interventions.
www.medicine.mcgill.ca/cpengine/
- Cerebral Palsy Consortium
Another bilingual website, whose mission is to help children with CP remain socially engaged. A site dedicated to spreading sound information to all caregivers and health providers of children with CP.
www.consortiumpc.ca
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Web-based information for service providers
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ICNApedia: The Child Neurology Knowledge Environment
An excellent network of leading researchers and sound information for service providers in the field of child neurology.
www.icnapedia.org
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NeuroDevNet
A Canadian network of centres of excellence in child neurology. Researchers in this network strive to understand the causes of neurological conditions and pass this information on to other researchers, health care workers of all disciplines, policy-makers and the wider community, to work towards the healing of all pediatric neurological deficits.
www.neurodevnet.ca
CanChild
- CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research is a research and educational centre which is focused on improving the lives of children and youth with disabilities and their families. The goal of CanChild is to make research findings easily accessible to a wide range of audiences, from families to practitioners in every discipline involved in caring for the young.
www.canchild.ca
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Government Reports
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FEDERAL DISABILITY REPORT: The Government of Canada's ANNUAL REPORT on Disability Issues
A must for anyone concerned with federal policies on care for the disabled. This report (pertaining to the year 2010) examines accessibility to the elements that are important for the quality of life of a person with a disability. These include accessibility to: health, learning, standard of living, employment and community participation.
The Government of Canada's ANNUAL REPORT on Disability Issues
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