ASNB - Services & Agencies

Stan Cassidy Centre for Rehabilitation
Description: The SCCR is a publicly funded hospital with a specialty team for children with neuromuscular disorders / developmental delays. A comprehensive range of services are integrated into an individually tailored program for each person. Services may include assessment, consultation and/or treatment from many disciplines, including occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, recreation therapy, social work, pastoral care services, psychology, dietetics, and physiotherapy. Outreach clinics and workshops are also conducted as needed.
Getting the Service: A referral can be made through your family doctor.

Psychologists (private practice)
Description: Psychologists may be employed for assessment or reassessment purposes, or to offer assistance in developing treatment and education plans, or decreasing undesirable behaviours of your child. It is important to access a psychologist who is experienced with therapeutic techniques that have been shown to be effective with individuals with autism. Lists of psychologists experienced with autism may come from the College of Psychologists of New Brunswick, or you may contact ASNB.
Getting the Service: Psychologists are typically contracted on a self-referral basis. NB Medicare does not cover services provided by private psychologists. Some parents may be able to charge psychological consultation fees to a health plan such as Blue Cross.

Pharmacists
Description: Medication may be used in autism to control troubling symptoms, such as anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorder. A pharmacist is the drug expert of the health care system and has a unique knowledge of medications and their interactions with each other, food, alcohol, disease and lifestyle, as well as their effects on the human body. A specialty of the profession are "compounding pharmacists", who may provide customized medication. Instead of a standardized dosage or format, a compounding pharmacist may provide a drug in a preservative or colour free form, or as a combination of medicines in a single dose. Instead of a capsule, the medicine may be prepared as a gummy bear, a flavoured liquid, or as a cream or suppository.
Getting the Service: Pharmacists work in community healthcare settings such as hospitals, as well as in pharmacies/ drug stores. In the Moncton area, Ford's Apothecary is the only compounding pharmacy. To find the closest one in your area, the International Association of Compounding Pharmacists is online at http://www.iacprx.org or can be reached at...
1-800-927-4227.

Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA) Consultants (private)
Description: Please contact your local support group while this is being researched.
Getting the Service: Please contact your local support group while this is being researched.

The Speech & Learning Institute
Description: Offers ABA/intensive preschool programming/school age programming consultation services to New Brunswick families of children with autism. Cynthia Howroyd has a background in Speech Language Pathology in addition to specialized training in autism. She has successfully served families of children with autism throughout the province as a consultant for the last 4 years.
Getting the Service: For service options and costs please contact Cynthia Howroyd at: The Speech & Learning Institute, PO Box 69000, Enterprise UNB, UNB Campus, Fredericton, NB E3B 6C2 Tel: 506-450-7299 Fax: 506-453-4510
Email Howroyd@virtualautismclinic.com

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Last Updated: December 23rd, 2004