Resources
by Base
Medical - Gagetown - Children & Youth
Autism Connections Fredericton
Phone: (506) 450-6025
Website: autismconnectionsfredericton.com/
Autism Connections is committed to helping individuals with autism, their families and caregivers, as well as professionals, to access resources and services. These services will be provided in both official languages wherever possible.
Stan Cassidy Centre For Rehabilitation - Specialty Clinics
Phone: (506) 452-5225
Web: www.rivervalleyhealth.nb.ca/en/programs/sccr/specialty.aspx
Through the River Valley Health Region website you will find information about the Stan Cassidy Centre for Rehabilitation Specialty Clinics.
Department of Social Development - Services for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Phone: (506) 453-2001
Web: http://app.infoaa.7700.gnb.ca/gnb/Pub/EServices/ListServiceDetails.asp?ServiceID1=13836&ReportType1=All
Through the Department of Social Development the Government of New Brunswick contracts with authorized agencies across the province to provide intervention services to preschool age children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) Program
Phone: 902- 457-5020
Web: www.iwk.nshealth.ca/index.cfm
The Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) Program is a treatment program for children with autism. Autism is a complex developmental brain disorder that appears in early childhood, although it is sometimes diagnosed much later. It affects the child’s normal development of social and communication skills. Autism is a spectrum that encompasses a wide range of behavior. The common features include impaired social interactions, impaired verbal and nonverbal communication, and restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior. The symptoms may vary from moderate to severe.
The EIBI Treatment Program focuses on the child’s development of communication skills and social-emotional areas in a natural setting. EIBI Support Workers work with the child and family in the child’s home or at their pre-school or daycare.
IWK Autism Team
IWK Health Centre
Web: www.iwk.nshealth.ca/
The IWK Health Centre provides quality care to women, children, youth and families in the Maritime provinces and beyond.
Caring
The IWK is structured around a Program-Based Care Model. Program-based care puts people first by organizing interdisciplinary care teams around the needs of patients and families. Services provided by the Health Centre are delivered through three programs: Children’s Health; Mental Health and Addictions; and Women’s and Newborn Health.
Care Provided at the IWK Health Centre
Tertiary Care
A form of care that is highly specialized and complex.
Primary Care
Care to which users have direct access. This type of care can include diagnosis and treatment; referral to secondary health care services; prevention care; and heath promotion and education. Primary health care might involve visiting your family doctor or nurse practitioner, talking to a dietician or a pharmacist, or calling a toll-free health advice line to talk to a health professional.
Secondary Care
Care for which patients do not have direct access and for which they must be referred from some other part of the health system. This category includes most Health Centre specialist services.
Teaching and Research
The IWK is a respected centre for its world-class research into disorders and diseases affecting children and women. As a teaching institution, the IWK is affiliated with Dalhousie University and serves as a primary clinical resource for pediatric and obstetric teaching of a broad range of health professions including medicine, nursing, other allied health services and child life.
Reaching Maritime communities
Specialists from the IWK take their expertise to Maritime communities in the form of traveling clinics, particularly in the areas of pediatric neurology, orthopaedics, cardiology and respiratory medicine.
In addition, using computer-based videoconferencing technology, the IWK provides specialized care to Maritime families through the Children’s TeleHealth NetworkTM.
As well, a team of specially trained nurses and respiratory therapists from the IWK travels by air and ground ambulance to outlying Maritime communities to stabilize and transfer critically ill newborns, older children and mothers with high-risk pregnancy situations.
Intraspec
Web: http://intraspec.ca/find-a-doctor.php
The Intraspec website provides a free provincial listing of health lines and doctor availability for each province to assist you in your search for finding quality health care.
