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Help us get our children's program off the ground by making a donation now! 

Our plan is to welcome our first children in the fall of 2022.

Here are testimonials from parents whose children benefit from the program offered by the Regina and Winnipeg FSWC centers.  Your donation can help us make this program available to Quebec families as well!

​Our Children’s Program provides specific, intensive, activity-based therapy programming for children with neurological conditions or acquired brain injuries that have created any developmental delays. Our program is designed to work with the child as a whole to improve motor planning, body awareness, independence, and quality of life. Ultimately, it allows the children:

• reach their full potential, physically and psychologically,
• live a healthy lifestyle through more active social participation,
• improve their quality of life and thereby facilitate family harmony.​

The First Steps Method​

The goal of our Children’s Program is to eliminate pathological reflexes and establish new, correct, and functional movement pathways. We have combined highly reputable programs to take a new approach on how to create changes in the body that are associated with brain injury, trauma, and developmental delays. By combining these therapies, the child is provided with the best possible resources to succeed with motor and sensory functioning such as coordination, balance, strength, and endurance to create functional movements.​

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Everyone is born with pre-programmed reflexes that help strengthen and train our bodies to be able to perform movement patterns against gravity. Due to differences in severity of injury, children with neurological conditions will experience varying degrees of difficulty progressing through developmental stages due to disruption of these reflex pathways.

Our program has the goal of providing intensive and directed therapy to help accelerate and guide the child’s development in the direction that it would naturally take. The combination of programs allows the body to reach a functional goal and produce a movement correctly in a short period of time.

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Benefits:

• ​train the central nervous system
• Improves coordination
• Improves head and trunk control
• Promotes the development of fine and gross motor skills
• Reduces uncontrolled movements
• Helps to structure the gait
• Normalizes muscle tone
• Targets weak muscles

• ​Provides resistance to strong muscles to further strengthen them
• Provides weight bearing for bone health
• Influences the vestibular system and improves balance
• Provides dynamic correction
• Provides external feedback and stabilization
• Aligns the body as close to normal as possible
• Improves body and spatial awareness​

Are you interested in joining the 2022 fundraising team? 
Contact us by email at info@fswcquebec.ca info@fswcquebec.ca

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