The Centre provides families and the community with information and resources to support children with disabilities.
Our Resources Include:
- a family resource library that contains books, videos, DVDs, pamphlets and articles for loan
- information on useful websites for families
- internet access for families’ use
- therapeutic and adapted toys available for loan through
your child’s therapist - equipment loan available in consultation with your child’s physiotherapist, occupational therapist or recreation therapist
- a software lending library
Read, Speak, Sing: Your baby and early literacy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLCYNOxue04&feature=em-share_video_user
What is Autism? Video produced by the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) that helps explain autism to Indigenous families.
PRESENTATIONS
A Few Words About First Words: This video series is part of a public awareness campaign highlighting the power of parent-child interactions to set the stage for language learning. The campaign is spearheaded by the Hanen Ontario Provincial Preschool Speech and Language Initiative, in collaboration with the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services:
‘Sounds and gestures: Building blocks for your child’s first words’
You are the key to your child’s first words
Conversations pave the way for first words
Five Counties Children’s Centre Occupational Therapy Videos and Tip Sheets