Congratulations to the teams from Santé Québec West-Central Montreal who were honoured for their pioneering, people-centred projects at the 2026 SRS ceremony on May 28. From left, Audiologists Mercy Lii, Paraskevi (Voula) Tsagaroulis, Chantal Tran and Aparna...
Team at Mackay Centre School offers speech and motor therapy at the same time Like any exercise enthusiast, Eytan Kurlender loves working out on a treadmill. But the 9-year-old is doing more than just building up a sweat—he’s also getting one-of-a-kind therapy with...
By Melina Giubilaro, Communications Specialist Imagine having ideas, feelings and dreams inside you, but no easy way to share them. For many children and youth with physical, speech, or language impairments, that’s their daily reality. Augmentative and Alternative...
Lethbridge-Layton-Mackay Rehabilitation Centre becomes first in Quebec to use Brain-Computer Interface Technology By Melina Giubilaro, Rehabilitation Communications Specialist Imagine a child with a severe disability who’s able to dribble a basketball by using their...
An initiative by our CIUSSS to involve parents in their children’s therapy sessions has won the 2024 Family and Person-Centered Care Award from Children’s Healthcare Canada. The 2024 Family and Person-Centered Care Award The prize-winning project grew out of a...
By Melina Giubilaro, Communications Specialist The Lethbridge-Layton-Mackay Rehabilitation Centre (LLMRC) has launched an innovative peer mentorship program, training its first cohort of 10 remarkable young mentors, aged 14 to 29. The diverse mentor group represents...
A year ago, the Rehabilitation team in Specialized Schools at the Lethbridge-Layton-Mackay Rehabilitation Centre started brainstorming ways to include parents in therapy sessions, since evidence shows that parental involvement improves therapy outcomes...
Congratulations to Occupational Therapists Emily Lecker and Enza Stabile and their team at the Lethbridge-Layton-Mackay Rehabilitation Centre. They won a Prix SRS from the Caisse du Réseau de la santé Desjardins in the "High-performance" category for implementing the...
CIUSSS social worker opens Giving Shop to support children in specialized schools The day of Montreal’s first big snowfall in November, a child at the Mackay Centre and Philip E. Layton Schools sat indoors during morning recess because he had no gloves or boots. His...
A few years ago, Anna Maria Civitella came to a realization: Children with disabilities didn’t often see themselves reflected in the toys they played with. No dolls with hearing aids, no teddy bears with feeding tubes, no action figures with leg braces. So Ms....