Founded in 1997, Yaldei is known for delivering high quality, community-based services using a family-centred approach and professional staff and leadership. Yaldei is nationally recognized for its leadership in research and advocacy and for promoting innovative approaches in early intervention practices.
The Donald Berman YALDEI Developmental Center is
a non profit centre committed to helping children with disabilities reach their full potential. We know that finding effective services creates a constant struggle for families and caregivers. Yaldei reduces the stress of that search by offering comprehensive evaluation, therapy and treatment programs for a wide range of disabilities.
All of our experts under one roof. We provide the most advanced and unique program of one-on-one intensive early intervention, using a broad range of multidisciplinary therapeutic approaches. We are dedicated to ensuring that families have access to coordinated, supportive, educational and therapeutic services that are geared to their child’s individual needs.
Our facility offers a unique environment.Today, Yaldei is the only Early Intervention centre in Quebec. Our state-of-the-art facility is conveniently located in the heart of Montreal. We also provide a full range of family support services and mainstream integration programs.
Yaldei can help your child. We provide services to a population of children with varying disabilities. These include children with:
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Developmental Delays |
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Autism Spectrum Disorder |
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Neurological Disorders |
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Learning Disabilities |
History
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In 1997 Yaldei Developmental Centre was founded by a young couple with two severely developmentally |
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delayed children. The centre was run out of a small bungalow. |
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The centre was moved to its new facility in the Queen Elizabeth Health Complex in December, 2001 in |
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order to accommodate more children and offer more programs and services |
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By the end of 2003, Yaldei accommodated 35 children in center-based programming and there were 50 |
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employees working for the centre |
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In 2006 Yaldei collaborated with McGill University to host the first ever national conference on Early |
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Intervention Policy Practice & Services for Children with Developmental Delays |
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In 2007 the centre added Donald Berman to its name to honor its benefactor and is now known as the |
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Donald Berman Yaldei Developmental Centre |
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2008 shows over 120 children registered in Yaldei’s various programs and services |
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Yaldei is now recognized as a leading organization in Intensive Early Intervention in the province of Quebec |
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