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About the 
Symington Foundation

Shaping Stronger Futures

The Symington Symbiotic Foundation was incorporated in 2018 with a mission to empower and support children and youth living with disabilities. This mission is accomplished through an interdisciplinary learning and therapy experience consisting of Empowering Steps movement therapy and behaviour intervention, music therapy, occupational therapy, and physiotherapy, all under one roof. Our pediatric clients benefit from therapists of various disciplines exchanging knowledge and observations, and meeting the children's various needs and challenges through different focuses of expertise.

Services

The Symington Symbiotic Foundation provides access to a number of services operated by our partners.

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 Behaviour Intervention

Empowering Steps Behaviour Intervention takes place in an inclusive gymnastics setting, utilizing a Developmental Social Pragmatic approach based on the principles of typical child development, with an individualized Behaviour Plan of Intervention developed for each participant.

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Physiotherapy

Physiotherapy is available as an integrated service, supplementing our base Empowering Steps BI/MT curriculum with client-specific physio goals, and including monthly virtual check-ins with our physiotherapist.

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 Movement Therapy

Empowering Steps Movement Therapy is a motor intervention based on a 10-stage motor scale, taking place in an inclusive gymnastics environment and progressing through developmental milestones to more complex sport-specific skills. This program is most beneficial for children with motor deficits, low muscle tone, or poor muscular coordination.

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Speech and Language Pathology

Speech-Language Therapists provide clinical speech and language services to children who needs support in speech, language and cognitive-communication. SLP is offered as a 1:1 classroom-based service, or integrated with our base Empowering Steps BI/MT curriculum during gym sessions.

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Therapy Intensives

Empowering Steps 2- or 4-hour therapy intensives are offered during Spring and Summer break, and include Empowering Steps BI and/or Movement Therapy, fine motor activities, social group activities, games, free explorative play in the gym, and more!

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School/Community Living Groups

We are very excited to offer a small selection of weekly and monthly group programs on a case by case basis, including and Adult Community Inclusion Social Group and our Empowering Steps Trampoline Social Group.

We respectfully and humbly acknowledge that Empowering Steps, Club Aviva, and the Symington Symbiotic Foundation operate on the unceded ancestral lands of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Kwantlen, and SEMYOME (Semiahmoo) Nations.

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