Development and Rehabilitation

Please note that services for the Development & Rehabilitation program have moved to the Children’s Treatment Centre (395 Smyth Rd) and 2211 Thurston Ave.

Please confirm your location at the time of booking your appointment.

Development and Rehabilitation supports children, youth and some adults with physical, developmental and behavioural needs. We offer many services and programs that span inpatient and outpatient care.

Staff and physicians in this department work at many CHEO locations. They also work in the community at nursery schools and daycares. Many of our speech-language pathologists and communicative disorders assistants work out of the six First Words sites across Ottawa.

Make a referral

Looking to be referred to CHEO Development and Rehabilitation services? Visit each service’s page to learn more about how you can be referred to that team.

Referrals for many of our services go through the Access Team. They can help you access many of the Development and Rehabilitation services listed below, and refer you to other services outside CHEO.

Development and Rehabilitation services include:

• Audiology, auditory-verbal therapy and cochlear implant
• Children's treatment centre services
• Chronic pain
• Child life
• Neonatal follow-up clinic
• Occupational therapy
• Physiotherapy
• Rehabilitation
• Speech-language pathology