Mariam is one of the Support Workers at Lansdowne Children’s Centre, working with child and youth clients and helping them develop their communication and social skills. She was inspired to take on the role because of her “natural love for kids and helping people. I’m generally drawn to roles that help people feel supported, cared for, and understood.” Working with children and youth who have communication, physical and/ or developmental differences “has shown me the power of

The items in each Parker’s Promise kit are relatively common: a fidget, a lip chap, a tea bag, a pen and journal, and a card that explains how a person can use these things in a grounding exercise. This was done very intentionally by creator Shalyn Wilson, who wanted to make sure the items in the kit could be easily and relatively inexpensively replenished for continual use. “You can recreate that grounding exercise over and over and over again,” she said. Possibly the most i

Powered by passionate community leaders and dedicated volunteers, Lansdowne Children’s Centre and Brant Food For Thought are celebrating a new Smile Cookie record for fundraising in Brantford. Each organization has received $82,501.52 at the conclusion of the Tim Hortons 2026 Smile Cookie campaign, eclipsing the previous achievement of $79,415.54 each organization received through the 2025 campaign. The money was raised through the sale of Smile Cookies and associated mercha

From expressing our needs to sharing our experiences, communication is an essential part of life. May is Speech and Hearing Month, a time to celebrate the life-changing difference speech-language pathologists, communicative disorders assistants, and other professionals in the field can make by helping kids find the tools that will best help them communicate effectively. “Communication is not just speech; it's also gestures and facial expressions and signs,” said Fran Talarico

“It was a great pleasure to recently welcome Brant Community Healthcare System President and CEO, Bonnie Camm, to our Brantford site and discuss mutual opportunities with Lansdowne Children’s Centre. "When a community’s service organizations collaborate, it provides more and greater opportunities to better support local families,” said Lansdowne Executive Director Rita-Marie Hadley. If your community organization or group would like to connect with us and explore opportuniti

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“The touch quilts were certainly trendy,” Sue said, adding, “With touch quilts, our focus … would be for a sensory experience.” The quilters would incorporate a range of fabrics in these projects so as to have multiple textures: silky, smooth, rough, bumpy, etc.

“At Lansdowne, one of our foundational goals is to provide family-centered services. We can only do this with feedback from the families we serve. " The annual Lansdowne Children’s Centre Client Satisfaction Survey is an opportunity for the families served by Lansdowne to provide feedback.

Lacey L. Bakker is the owner of Pandamonium Publishing House, which has published over 150 titles to date. Pandamonium has worked with 60 authors and 15 illustrators and graphic designers over the past decade. For Family Literacy Day on January 27, we asked Lacey to give us some insights into the Canadian publishing world. Q. Tell us how Pandamonium got started. A. Pandamonium Publishing House was officially hatched on October 1, 2015 (a decade ago!) and it started with one

In this 3-part video series (10min) we explore how professionals from Lansdowne Children’s Centre for child development help to create and support inclusive early learning spaces across the city of Brantford, the County of Brant, and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.

Young scholars getting ready for the return to school had a chance to either learn for the first time or get a reminder on how to safely...

Goal setting, checklists, helpful visuals and educator communication, are just some of the back to school tips shared by Autism Services professionals at Lansdowne Children's Centre is online presentation resource.

Connect with family and children support services and resources in Haldimand and Norfolk countires, Ontario. H-N REACH

If you’ll be studying at a college, university, Indigenous institute or career training program in the fall of 2025, EKO wants to support

Challenger adaptive baseball program is in Brantford, running Wednesday evenings June 4 through July 30 at Lansdowne Public School on Presto

Logan MacDonald and husband Pat share their experience navigating their daughter Blake's rare Diagnosis, Gaucher disease

Beginning 2025 January 16, parents and caregivers of children with special needs, from birth to six years old..

Learn more about a new EarlyON program, coming soon, specifically built around the needs of families with children with special needs

Tips to help make your home and/or event more welcoming and accessible this Halloween, from Lansdowne Children's Centre

Check out some upcoming Caregiver and community events, and register or RSVP online using the Lansdowne Children's Centre event calendar.