Inclusive Learning Supports

Our Inclusive Learning team includes: Inclusive Learning Consultants, Psychologists, Speech-Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, and a Program Assistant. Our team works in collaboration with our schools and community partners  to meet the identified needs of children, youth and their families. 

Our team also includes a low incidence team who provide specialized services to some of our students.  The specialists include: a Deaf and Hard of Hearing Consultant, an Audiologist, a Vision Consultant, as well as a Physiotherapist.  If you feel your child is in need of a consult from one of these specialists, please contact the Collaborative Response Coordinator or Inclusive Learning Facilitator, or Student Support Team at your school. 

Support is provided in inclusive settings through hands-on guidance and professional development in the following areas:

  • Inclusive Education & Assistive Technology
  • Early Intervention (learning, speech-language, occupational therapy)   
  • EICS Collaborative Response Model
  • Instructional Support Plans (ISP) and Regulation Support Plans (RSP)
  • Standardized Testing & Psychoeducational Assessment Services
  • Behaviour Consultation & Intervention
  • Crisis Support

In addition to providing individual services and consultation, the Inclusive Learning Services team facilitates the following training initiatives within EICS:

  • Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (CPI - Crisis Prevention Institute)
  • VTRA - Violence Threat Risk Assessment (Canadian Centre for Threat Assessment & Trauma Response)
  • Learning Language and Loving It & Talkability (The Hanen Centre)
  • Positive Behaviour Supports