The MFC provides solutions for common educational challenges
The Challenge |
The MFC Solution |
|---|---|
| 35% of children in Quebec are unprepared to enter school. | Through early and effective therapy, we increase academic readiness and close this gap. |
| Quebec’s dropout rate is 29%*. | By treating children through all educational transitions from preschool to high school, we reduce dropout rates and school failures. |
| Remote areas of Quebec are often at highest risk of school failure and have limited access to services. | We make our treatments available to remote communities via telepractice, using our video-conferencing facilities. |
| Many high-risk children are disadvantaged because their families can’t afford language therapy. | Bursaries are available to families who need financial assistance – no child is ever turned away for an inability to pay. |
| Average wait time for treatment is 18 months in the public sector. | Our average wait time is 3 months. |
| Treatment takes longer than necessary without a home program to support its goals. | We develop and train a full support team — including parents — from both within and outside the clinic to enhance treatment effectiveness ensure the child’s success. |
| Immigrant families with multiple languages often constitute complex clinical cases that few clinicians are comfortable treating. | We specialize in complex clinical cases and develop community partnerships to enable treatment programs to reach such families. |
Other MFC Contributions
In addition to making a difference for children and families on a day-to-day basis, we also:
- publish nationally and internationally;
- have trained over 2,000 speech languages pathologists in continuing education workshops across North America;
- provide staff with ongoing mentoring — mitigating the need for scaled fees — to give each of our clinicians the same level of knowledge and to offer equal opportunity for treatment success to all families.