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MCLD Proudly Presents Our Annual Comedy Fundraiser

Thursday, May 10th, 2018
Showtime: 8:00 pm
(Doors open 7:30 pm)

Join Us For An Evening Of Fun & Laughter!


Featuring CAROLE MONTGOMERY
Comedian, Writer, Director, Producer, Mom

Location:

The Comedy Nest
2313 rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest (Pepsi Forum), Montreal, QC H3H 1N2

Price of Ticket:

$20 also includes drawings for fabulous prizes!

YOUR SUPPORT HELPS US IMPROVE
AND EXPAND OUR SERVICES & PROGRAMMING!
For more information or to purchase tickets
Contact Pam Wener at (514) 898-2503

DVD: Winning at Parenting…without beating your kids with Barbara Coloroso

Montreal Centre for Learning Disabilities
Parent Support Group

The Queen Elizabeth Health Complex
Free for Current MCLD Members
Registration Required to Reserve Your Sat
Contact Linda (514) 487-3533

This DVD features Barbara presenting Winning at Parenting before a live audience just as she has around the globe. It is a humorous approach to mealtime, bedtime, chores and more. It describes parent skills to promote independent problem solving skills and responsibility.

“Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.”

Public Meeting – September 11th, 2017

Sep 11
Annual General Meeting 7:00 pm
Lecture Begins at 7:30 pm

Managing Anxiety and Anger in Children & Adolescents with ADHD, LD & Mild ASD: The Heart & Brain Connection

Gestion de l’anxiété et la colère chez les enfants et ados avec un trouble de l’apprentissage, le déficit de l’attention ou l’autisme léger : Lien du cœur au cerveau (Présentation en anglais)

Speaker:

Linda Aber is a certified Nurtured Heart®, Theraplay®, HeartMath® Anxiety, Stress & Anger Reduction Practitioner, Attachment Parent Coach, Family Life Educator and proud adoptive parent. For over 20 years she has provided parent coaching, parent educational workshops, social skills & social thinking groups for The Montreal Centre for Learning Disabilities to families living with ADHD, LD, Mild Autism Spectrum, Defiant, mood, adoption and attachment disorders. Linda presents to educators in various Montreal schools as well as (QPAT) the Quebec Teachers Conference. Empowerment of parents and educaters is Linda’s passion. She inspires to bring out the best in adults, so they can bring out the best in their children and students.

Topic:

When children/teens become anxious, reactive or argumentative, the #1 mistake parents make is to use demand & command communication scripts. This reactive approach triggers both youth & adults adding fuel to the fire. In this lecture Linda will introduce strategies to take the difficult parenting moments, when you are simply trying to survive, and turn them into opportunities for your children to thrive. She will share the “heart-brain connection” that will empower parents with effective insights plus tools to help end the yelling and power struggles.

Free for Members – $5.00 for Non-Members

MCLD 2017 Parent Conference Update

MCLD held its sixth Annual Parent Conference on Sunday, April 23rd, aimed at providing strategies and resources to parents raising children/adolescents with Learning Disabilities, ADHD and Mild ASD.

A team of seven experts in their respective fields offered parenting insights, strategies and tools for home and school. Thank you to Eva de Gosztonyi, Marlene Desjardins, Dr. Abe Worenklein, Patrick Major, Sophie Plourde, Nathalie Dinelle, Deborah Schwartzman, Jillian Budd and Montreal comic Joey Elias for making our conference a success. Conference topics ranged from the alpha child, managing anxiety in youth, parenting teens with ADHD & ODD, executive functions, making sense of sensory difficulties, assistive technology and ended with comedian Joey Elias mixing humor and his personal story of battling anxiety.

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An Evening With Dr. Gordon Neufeld

Sunday, November 5th, 2017

MONTREAL CENTRE FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES & THE CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT 

PROUDLY PRESENT AN EVENING WITH DR. GORDON NEUFELD

PRESENTATION: HELPING CHILDREN AND YOUTH FLOURISH AT HOME AND SCHOOL

Dr. Gordon Neufeld

Dr. Gordon Neufeld is a Vancouver-based psychologist with over 45 years of experience with children and youth and those responsible for them. A foremost authority on child development, Dr. Neufeld is an international speaker, a bestselling author (Hold On To Your Kids) and a leading interpreter of the developmental paradigm.

Dr. Neufeld has a widespread reputation for making sense of complex problems and for opening doors for change. While formerly involved in university teaching and private practice, he now devotes his time teaching and training others, including educators and helping professionals. His Neufeld Institute is now a world-wide charitable organization devoted to applying developmental science to the task of raising children, Dr. Neufeld appears regularly on radio and television. He is a father of five and a grandfather to six.

Topic Summary: We all want our children and students to thrive – to become all they were meant to be. But how do we accomplish this? What conditions are required for a child to reach his or her full potential? What experiences are essential to the unfolding of human potential, regardless of the challenges a child may face? Dr. Neufeld will put the pieces together to reveal rather surprising answers to these basic yet important questions regarding human development. When children are facing special challenges, whether at home or at school, it is even more critical for parents and teachers to keep such essential information in mind.

Suitability: This talk is relevant to parents, grandparents, childcare providers, teachers, youth workers, and other professionals who work with children and youth.

Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

In Hold On to Your Kids, Dr. Neufeld and Dr. Maté explore the phenomenon of peer orientation: the troubling tendency of children and youth to look to their peers for direction–for a sense of right and wrong, for values, identity and codes of behaviour. But peer orientation undermines family cohesion, poisons the school atmosphere, and fosters an aggressively hostile and sexualized youth culture. It provides a powerful explanation for schoolyard bullying and youth violence; it is an escalating trend that has never been adequately described or contested until Hold On to Your Kids. Once understood, it becomes self-evident–as do the solutions.

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Lucky Harvest Family Day

This year MCLD was proud to host a special Family Day for our members to kick off the summer. We were pleased to invite ten lucky participants from our programs and their families to take part in a special therapeutic horse riding event.

The Lucky Harvest Project in Hinchinbrooke, Quebec, is the First and Oldest equine-assisted Therapy Centre in Quebec. This whole day event included games as well as a barbecue.

Each participant had a chance to feed, groom and lead their horse before riding them in the indoor arena. Siblings and other family members were also invited to lead and ride the horses and ponies in the outside arena. They even learned a trick or two and a great experience was had by all.

A delicious barbecue and the trimmings was provided by the Board of Lucky Harvest. A big thanks to MCLD Co- President Judy Deere and Lucky Harvest Director Debbie Hanney for arranging this event and for working so hard to make sure everyone had a great day. Thanks to MCLD Co-President Sana Nakhleh for the great photos and MCLD Director Nancy Feddersen for helping out.

A special note goes out to Therapeutic Trainer Louise Lacey who volunteers her time to enhance the equestrian experience for all participants. It is truly a labor of love.

We would also like to thank her team of volunteers : Sara , Sabrina, Sandra and Olivia who are part of a pool of dedicated horse walkers essential to the core of the program.

A big shout out to our AQUA K.I.D.S. coordinators Christopher Simeone and Lisa Campanaro for organizing the games and activities and to AQUA K.I.D.S volunteer Claire Roussel for helping out with our kids.

This was a first time event for both organizations and it was a pleasure to work together with such dedicated teams for the benefit of our kids and their families!

2017 Parent Conference: Tool Box For Success

Sunday, April 23rd, 2017

Featured Speakers & Topics:

  • The Alpha Children: How to Get Back Into the Lead,– Eva de Gosztonyi M.A.
  • The Ins and Outs of Executive Functions.– Marlene Desjardins Ph.D
  • Parenting Adolescents with ADHD & ODD: Managing the Turbulence & More! – Dr. Abe Worenklein
  • Making Sense of Sensory! Patrick Major, Nathalie Dinelle & Sophie Plourde, Occupational Therapists
  • Managing Anxiety: Practical Tools Parents Need to Know to Help their Child & Teen. – Dr. Deborah Schwartzman
  • Assistive Technology for Children & Teens with Learning Disabilities: Frequently Unanswered Questions.–Jillian Budd M.A.
  • In My Head & Out of My Mind.– Joey Elias, comedian
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2016 Parent Conference: Tool Box For Success

Sunday, April 17, 2016


Featured Speakers & Topics:

  • Restless in a Restless World: Understanding Anxiety in Children – Eva de Gosztonyi M.A.
  • The Impact of Sensory Processing Abilities on the Daily Lives of Children & their Families – Dorothy Notkin, O.T.
  • Dangerous Chemistry: Drugs, Alcohol & Gaming by You r Adolescent or Young Adult – Anna Cegielka, MSW
  • Understanding Assistive Technology: Choosing the Right Tool for the Job! – Andrea Prupas, B.Ed., M.A., M.A. Ct.
  • ADHD & Daily Management for Parents- Dr. Ridha Joober, Psychiatrist at Douglas Hospital
  • Strategies for Building the Language Skills of School Aged Children – Stacey Knecht, Speech Language Pathologist
  • What Does Everybody Else Know That I Don’t?: Understanding ADHD, LD, NVLD & Mild ASD & Interventions to Help Build Social Competence – Elizabeth Shoiry, Neuropsychologist & Linda Aber, Nurtured Heart®, Theraplay® & HeartMath® Practitioner
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2015 Parent Conference: Tool Box For Success

Sunday, April 26, 2015


Featured Speakers & Topics:

  • Becoming a Child Whisperer: Understanding the Challenging Child – Eva de Gosztonyi M.A.
  • Advocating for a Child in the School System – Maureen Hunt
  • Just BREATHE – Addressing Anxiety and Stress! – Melinda Atkinson
  • Study Methods and Organizational Skills- Sharon Klar
  • The Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (NLD) Syndrome: Social Skills and Academic Achievement – Dr. Dave Ellemberg
  • Literacy Support with Google! – Andrea Prupas B.Ed., M.A., M.A. Ct.
  • Nurtured Heart® & Theraplay®: Learn Activities to Ignite Self-Esteem & Your Parent-Child Connection – Linda Aber Certified Nurtured Heart® & Theraplay® Practitioner
  • Personal Stories: Living with ADHD/LD – The MCLD Ambassadors
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