School Health Support Serives Review

The three Ministries of Children and Youth Services, Health and Long Term Care and Education are conducting a review of the School Health Support Services (SHSS) Program.

The scope of the SHSS Review is limited to identifying areas of improvement within the current model.

The SHSS Program review involves a number of activities including consultation sessions with stakeholders; site meetings with CCAC staff, contracted service providers, school boards, and families.  Consultations with provincial organizations took place in February and site visits are occurring through April and early May.

The Deloitte review team is conducting an online survey to gather additional stakeholder input from the broad set of SHSS stakeholders across the health, education, children and youth services and parents/families communities.

The link below will take you directly to the online survey, which we anticipate will require 10-15 minutes to complete.  The survey is available in both English and French through this link, and additional information about the survey is provided once you sign-in to the survey tool.

Go to Survey

This survey will be open for stakeholder input from April 22 – May 21, 2010.

 

OAFCCD Continues to Struggle

Thank you to all of those who renewed their membership or made a donation to OAFCCD.  OAFCCD is a recognized voice for children with speech and language impairments, but the organization does not have enough funds to continue operating.

 Please consider helping OAFCCD by

·  making a donation

·   encouraging your colleagues and friends to become members

· holding an event during May, Better Speech, Language and Hearing Month to raise money for OAFCCD

· volunteering with OAFCCD as a Board member or a SEAC representative

The Membership application form can be downloaded here and can be used to renew your membership, for a new member to join, or to make a donation.  Credit card donations can also be made at www.CanadaHelps.org.  Select OAFCCD from the list of charities.

Call Alison Morse  at 519-842-9506 if you can help or if you have any ideas on how to support OAFCCD activities.


Did you know....

        ...that 1 in 10 Canadians has a speech, language or hearing problem

...an estimated 4% of the preschool population has a significant speech or language disorder

...8% to 12% of school children have some form of speech or language impairment

...communication disorders in school-aged children are often misdiagnosed as learning disabilities or behavioural problems, and can be very difficult to treat in later years.  Children with behavioural problems are ten times more likely than other children to have language disorders

...a child should use 200 or more words by the time they are 2-3 years old and by the age of 4 1/2 their vocabulary should consist of approximately 2000 words

...speech and language disorders are strongly related to failure in reading and writing

...drop our rates in students with communication disorders is 43% compared to 23% in non-impaired students

 

Early detection and intervention is vital!

If you have concerns about your child’s speech or language development contact and of the following:

 
  • A Speech Language Pathologist (look in your yellow pages)

  • Your local Preschool Speech and Language Program

  • Your local School Board's Special Education Department

  • OAFCCD