Events

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

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!