Pathfinder Integrated Family Services provides individualized, compassionate, and practical social work support right where you need it most — in your home. Our approach focuses on integrating the entire family into understanding and supporting their autistic child or adult, fostering an environment where connection, growth, and effective communication can thrive.
1. Comprehensive Family & Individual Assessment
- Strengths, needs, communication style, sensory profile, and behavioural patterns within the home.
- Family dynamics, routines, and current supports.
2. In-Home Behavioural Intervention & Support
- Customized Behaviour Plans: We often bring in a Behavioural Consultant to create a plan, and our social workers oversee and support the implementation.
- Routine Establishment
- Environmental Adaptations
3. Family Integration & Parenting Support
- Understanding Autism: Psychoeducation for the whole family.
- Parent Coaching: Modelling and real-time feedback in your own home.
- Sibling Support
4. Effective Communication Strategies
- Visual schedules, social stories, augmentative and alternative communication support, and clear, concise language.
- Promoting reciprocal communication.
5. Long-Term Ongoing Support
We stay alongside your family over time, adapting support as your child or family member grows and needs change.
We provide therapeutic, family support, and consultative services. We do not offer formal medical diagnoses of Autism Spectrum Disorder, medical treatment, or psychiatric care. We complement existing treatment plans and collaborate with professionals such as pediatricians, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists.