Developmental/Behavioural Support Contract Providers (DBS)

Developmental/Behavioural Support CONTRACT

Sometimes, when a child does not qualify for Specialized Services, when they have transitioned from them or while they wait for Specialized Services to be approved, a DBS (Developmental/Behavioural Support) might be offered by FSCD. This contract is less intensive than Specialized Services and has a 6 month duration. Typically, it has 9 hours of Aide support per week and 26 total hours of consultation from 1 or 2 professionals (the hours can be split). One of the consultants has to be the program coordinator and write a plan that includes the family goals to focus for the duration of the contract.

Some service providers may offer FSCD rates, however not all professionals within an organization charge the same, so some may still require parents to top-up the rate. Please check in with each service provider individually.

Achievements Unlimited

Specializes in providing services to both preschool and school-aged children with FSCD funded contracts. Offers a wide range of therapy services tailored to address various developmental needs. Neuro-affirming and trauma-informed approach, creating a playful, nurturing, and validating environment for children. They work in a transdisciplinary team that includes a psychologist, speech-language pathologist, occupational therapist, trainer, and a team of well-supported therapy aides. This multidisciplinary approach ensures that each child’s unique needs are comprehensively addressed. Therapy sessions take place in the familiar and comfortable environment of the child’s home. This setting promotes a sense of security and ease, facilitating the therapeutic process. Can also meet in community locations to support the child/family’s needs.

Airdrie Foundation 4 Early Childhood Intervention (Inspiration Station)

Airdrie Foundation 4 Early Childhood Intervention is a private ECS operator providing services at Inspiration Station (an independent preschool in Airdrie) and at The Village Kindergarten. They offer a common approach to provide Specialized Services to children enrolled in their PUF program. They have very specific suitability criteria and a child’s primary diagnosis should be communication delays and/or disorders. Contact them to determine eligibility/suitability for programming.

www.inspirationstation.ca/

A Heart for Families

Provides services to individuals of any age. Can work with a child’s PUF provider to offer a common approach. Relocating operations to Carstairs, so serves the communities of Olds, Didsbury, Carstairs, Crossfield, and Airdrie. No longer providing services in Calgary.

https://hrt4families.janeapp.com/locations/a-heart-for-families-therapy-services-inc/book

Along Dusty Trails

Providing traditional and alternative speech-language programming, including nature and/or community based intervention. Offering both individual services and social-language therapy play groups. All supports are engaging and tailored to each individual’s abilities.

https://www.alongdustytrails.com

Autism Partnership

Providing in home & clinic multidisciplinary services to children with autism and other developmental disabilities, specializing in children 18 months to 6 years old.

www.autismpartnership.ca

Ascend Pediatrics

Ascend Pediatrics Offers in-home Private Therapy Support Services in Cochrane, Canmore, Chestermere, Banff, Airdrie, and Calgary, AB. Their service providers are approved to work within FSCD contracts. Assessments they offer are ASD Diagnostic, Psyco-educational assessments, Giftedness, Fluency, Language and speech sounds, language and literacy, sensory processing, fine motor and visual motor integration, Gross motor and Developmental coordination.
They have a social thinking program and offer small interactive Respite Groups where kids can explore activities and play with friends. They have summer camps and more.

www.ascendpeds.com/

AXB Psychological Services

AXB offers psycho-educational, mental health (ADHD), and Autism diagnostic Assessments. They also offer Psychology Support, Coordination, and Sibling Intervention services for families with SS and BDS through FSCD.

https://www.axbpsychologicalservices.com/

Behaviourlytics

Board Certified Behaviour Analyst and Behaviour aide/Tutor to support learning and monitor goal achievement. Accept funding through BDS, Specialized Services and Private Clients, with direct billing.

http://www.behaviourlytics.com

Beyond Speech Therapy Services Inc.

Provides person-centered adult and pediatric speech and language therapy, adult and pediatric occupational therapy, and pediatric and adolescent behaviour consulting services in Calgary and southern Alberta, in their clinic, in-home, and virtually. Their team can offer support with Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) and they provide PUF services in some daycares and preschools.

www.beyondspeechservices.com/

Bridging Abilities

Focuses on growth and connections with thier families and communities. Their team has behaviour consultants, psychologists, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and counsellors that work with families in achieving goals.

https://bridgingabilities.ca/

Canadian Centre for Development

The Canadian Centre for Development is a private provider of Behaviour Developmental Support services like physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology and aide services. They have several different billing options including a market-rate option, as well as a reduced-rate option for families looking for services at FSCD-rates. Results-oriented, family-centric and love seeing kids of all abilities and ages (0-18 y.o.). Utilizes techniques and equipment like: Dynamic Movement Intervention (DMI), Cuevas Medek Exercise (CME), Sensory Integration Strategies, Movement ABC Assessments, TrexoRobot, Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation, Full Body Vibration Therapy, Feeding Therapy, Orofacial Myology, Beckman Oral Motor Method, and others.

https://www.canadiancentrefordevelopment.org

Carly van Boven Consulting

This therapist provides consultative services and Coordination for Specialized Services and BDS contracts.

Centre for Autism Services Alberta

A non-profit organization founded in Edmonton in 1997 by parents of children with autism. CFASA’s vision is to support individuals with autism in leading meaningful, engaged lives; their purpose is to empower autistic people and their families to thrive. CFASA works with autistic people and their families to promote the development of skills that create inclusion, meaningful engagement, and autonomy. Specializing in strategies to assist in maximizing family capacity.

http://www.centreforautismab.ca/

Connect Behaviour Inc.

Connect Behaviour works with parents and caregivers to create and support strong connections with their children. By focusing on practical skills and strategies that families can use every day, they address and support the skills of the entire family, with the emphasis that skillful and well supported families, raise thriving children.

https://www.connectbehaviour.com/

Connecting Dots

Connecting Dots is a family centered agency in Calgary, Alberta. Provides support for children, youth and parents in their natural environments, such as home, school or local communities. Uses evidence-based practices and neuro-diversity affirming approaches to help families learn and grow to meet their potential. They offer in-home or online therapy services including SLP, OT, Psych, and PT.

http://www.connecting-dots.ca

Elevated Abilities

Offers quality services and creates caring communities for those that are most vulnerable. Their programs consist of a multidisciplinary approach for children aged 0-17 diagnosed with disabilities and their families. These services provide consultation and support for acquiring skills, learning strategies, and building capacity to help a family promote their child’s healthy development. Provides counseling, in office group respite, clinical services, and psychological assessments.

https://www.elevatedabilities.ca/

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Intuitive Therapy Solutions

Specializing in Feeding Therapy and Intuitive Parent Coaching; Intuitive Therapy Solutions empowers families to move from surviving to thriving. Intuitive Therapy Solutions offers Teletherapy support to Alberta families. This organization has the ability to support FSCD contracts, including Behavioural Developmental Supports (BDS), Specialized Services (SS), and coordination services.

www.intuitivetherapysolutions.com

Hispir Care

Provides quality behavioural/developmental aide and respite aide services that align seamlessly with existing BDS or SS contracts through FSCD. Their dedicated aides collaborate closely with the family’s clinicians to create customized intervention plans, ensuring each session is tailored to the child’s development. Committed to empowering families, offering support in navigating complex programs, and making it convenient by conducting sessions in the family’s home or community.

https://hispir.com

Haven Family Wellness

Has a registered psychologist offering behaviour consulting who will work with the family’s goals in the home, via phone, virtual and community.

www.havenfamilywellness.com

Jared Hazzard Consulting

Behavioral therapy for BDS and specialized contracts as well as specialized team coordination.

www.jaredhazzard.com

Jared Shore, Speech-Language Pathologist and Occupational Therapist

Therapy provided in the office or in home. Dual certified occupational therapist and speech-language pathologist works privately or through FSCD contracts.

www.Therapyjared.com

Jessica Fritz, Board-Certified Behaviour Analyst

Jessica provides services to children of all ages using an evidence-based approach to address challenging behaviours in the natural environment. Jessica works on DBS and Specialized Services contracts through FSCD. She provides services to families in Calgary and the surrounding areas. Jessica believes in collaborating with families and other community members to build up the individual’s potential, while at the same time strengthening everyone’s knowledge and skills. She is dedicated to designing and supporting families with individualized strategies that are specific for each child and their unique ways of learning while using the principals of applied behaviour analysis.

Kids Early Treatment Centre

Treatment involves a careful assessment of the child to determine skill deficits and behavioral excesses. The goal of intervention is to increase positive behaviours while simultaneously reducing maladaptive behaviors that may impair or interfere with the child’s daily functioning. Each child will have a comprehensive, individualized treatment plan developed to meet his or her needs and the child’s progress is closely monitored and evaluated through direct observation and data collection. Kids ETC coordinates programming for clients who are receiving specialized services or behavioural aide supports through FSCD. Coordination of services includes comprehensive programming for the child, the development of an Individual Service Plan, coordination of services with multidisciplinary team members, monitoring the child’s progress with treatment goals, scheduling team meetings, and providing behavioural aides to implement 1:1 therapy in the child’s home environment. Parents are an important part of treatment and are involved in all aspects of the child’s intervention. Parents are taught to utilize behavioural principles and to teach their child in a manner that is consistent with the approach utilized by the treatment team. Kids ETC will teach parents how to implement structured and unstructured programming with their child, generalize their child’s skills to the natural environment and manage disruptive behaviours. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a treatment that combines both ‘cognitive therapy’ and ‘behavioral therapy’. CBT examines the relationship between an individual’s thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Clients learn to identify negative thoughts and behaviour patterns and learn more effective strategies to deal with difficult situations.

www.kidsetc.ca

Kin-Dir Education Foundation

Provider of DBS services for children birth to 8 years in home. Can work with a child’s PUF provider to offer DBS programming.

www.kindired.com/

Lead Foundation

FSCD Programs: SS, DBS, & Triple P programs. Specializes in working with children diagnosed with ASD and their families. They offer individual and group-based programs. They also works with children of all ages who are eligible for Alberta Education programs. Their teams provide services in preschools, child care programs & kindergarten programs in Calgary and surrounding areas. Their multi-disciplinary teams include: Speech Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, Behaviour Specialists, Psychologists, and Child Development Specialists.

http://www.leadfoundation.ca/

McMan Milestones

Milestones BDS provides parents/caregivers with in-home support to address the unique needs they have parenting a child with a disability. In-home support focuses on strengthening parent skills, learning new strategies, accessing resources and strengthening their support network. Transition to Adulthood services support families with a youth, 16 – 18 years of age with a disability, to help them prepare for successful transition to adulthood. They help the youth and family answer questions, access resources and work towards their transition to adulthood goals.Also offers one to one, non-emergency counseling with a registered clinician. Clinicians create a supportive and open environment where caregivers can explore their needs raising a child with a disability.

Professionals Available: Aide Support

https://mcmancalgary.ca/milestones/

Monarch House

Monarch House provides family-centered, seamless services that are interdisciplinary and evidence-based to families and individuals with behavioral, communication, learning, and motor needs across the lifespan. Supports both Specialized Services (SS) contracts and Developmental Behaviour Support (DBS) contracts. They are a team of clinical professionals working to support children with diverse learning needs and disabilities between the ages of 0-18. It’s their goal to accept, engage and support those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other diagnoses, helping them to thrive.

https://monarchhouse.ca/

Navigate for Kids

Navigate for kids is an online tool to help find disability related resources for families with children (up to 18 years of age) with developmental disabilities in Calgary. It is available in additional languages including Tagalog, Punjabi, Chinese and Arabic. There are different areas of support available including Behavioral Developmental Supports (BDS), Specialized Services (SS), respite, counseling, social rec, transportation and transition to adult support.

www.navigateforkids.com

New Heights

Offers DBS contracts when there is availability. Services for children 2.8 to 6 years old. Could work with PUF providers to offer a common approach.

http://www.newheightscalgary.com/

Pacekids Programs

Pacekids Programs supports children with diverse needs and their families through therapy, education, and play. Pacekids is a qualified provider of the Behavioural and Developmental Supports Program and works with children from six months to approximately 10 years of age. Pacekids takes a family-centered, play-based approach to thier services by supporting both the development of the child, as well as the functioning and development of the family unit.

www.pacekids.ca

Pk Strategies (PS) Inc.

Specialists provide the child with many opportunities or trials in structured teaching situations and in the course of everyday activities. Their experienced therapists and clinicians offer evidence-based behavioral treatments to children with autism spectrum disorder. Parents, family members, and caregivers can all be trained in these techniques. Their programs apply understanding of how behavior works to real situations. The goal is to increase behaviors that are helpful and decrease behaviors that are harmful or affect learning.

www.pkstrategies.ca

PlayFull Potential

Offers DBS services if they have spots only. They can collaborate with PUF providers to offer a common approach.

http://www.playfullpotential.com/

Sacred Warrior Consulting

This organization is a pre-approved FSCD service provider, both for families who have children with neurodiversity and for neurodiverse adults. They offer behavioural consultation, parent coaching, and life coaching, using both indigenous and mainstream Western methods of practice. No diagnosis is necessary to access services these services, though it might be necessary in order to access governmental funding support. This organization also strives to keep fees at an affordable rate, in recognition of the fact that access to funding and support can be very challenging, especially as Indigenous heritage can add an extra layer of legal complexity.

https://sacredwarriorcounsellingandcoaching.com/

Sahaara Therapy Services Ltd.

Sahaara Therapy Services Ltd. provides support for families and their children. They have a team of OT, SLP, PT, Behavioral Therapist, Clinical Counselor and Aide support. They work in family homes, in the community and in schools to provide individualized, play based support.

www.sahaaratherapy.com

Skills to Learn

Offers social skills programs for children with disabilities aged 6-14. They are funded as a Behavioural Developmental Support. They teach Social Emotional Learning, emotional regulation, executive functioning and conversation skills.

https://www.skillstolearn.info

Society for Autism Support and Services

Provides DBS contracts for children 2.8 to 6 years old. PUF program at their centre and/or in a community preschool.

https://www.autism.ca/

Spreading Light (LeVangie Behaviour Consulting) Inc.

A Behavior Consultant with over 10 years of experience in the area of child development, Rochelle provides play-based Behaviour Therapy services in the home, community, and preschool settings (e.g. FSCD, PUF, fee-for-service, etc.). She practices and promotes a cooperative behavioural approach – one that is inclusive, play-based, trauma-informed, and neurodiversity affirming. She has experience working together with toddlers, children, and youth with various diagnoses/developmental capabilities including Autism, Down Syndrome, ADHD, and/or PDA profiles. Rochelle prioritizes skill building, acceptance, and up-to-date education. Willing to work within and/or coordinate a Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), available in Airdrie, Calgary, Chestermere, Cochrane.

www.levangiebehaviourconsulting.com

Step by Step Early Intervention Society

Step by Step is a private ECS provider that follows the Alberta Education curriculum and standards. Led by a certified teacher, their classes offer a high level of adult to child support. Speech-language therapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, music therapy, and behavior support may be included as part of your child’s program depending on their areas of need. Funding to attend the ECS program could be provided by accessing Program Unit Funding (PUF) from Alberta Education. If your child has been screened and found to have significant developmental delays or disability they may be eligible.

https://stepbystepyyc.com/

Stepping into L.I.F.E. Inc.

Provides Respite, Community Aide, BDS, 24 hr. overnight Care, Personal Care

www.steppingintolife.ca

Tandem Behaviour Consulting Inc.

BDS and Specialized services are offered targeting communication, social skills, play skills, sleep, food selectivity , toileting, adaptive living skills, and severe challenging behaviors.

https://tandembehaviorconsulting.com/

Unique Minds Behavior Intervention

They believe each child is unique and therefore their intervention services should be too. They aim to provide programming that is tailored to each individual’s specific needs and unique goals. They provide Behaviour Consultation services using the principles of Applied Behaviour Analysis.