As a company, we believe in supporting meaningful research that impacts our communities. We are pleased to team up with Simon Fraser University to support stronger, more inclusive communities. 

Pathways to Education is a three year international study that will focus on exploring the experiences of resettled refugee families who have children with exceptionalities. The goal is to understand how we as practitioners in the education community can strengthen our system and provide meaningful and robust support to children with exceptionalities and their families. We are very excited to be a part of this major research project that will help build bridges between all members of our communities.  

We pride ourselves on being both practitioners and researchers. This project was a labour love from our founder and lead Consultant Chelsea McFadzen, MA.

As we all know the Autism Spectrum is a complex and highly varied diagnosis that can manifest itself in many different ways. That's why its important to never stop adding to our body of knowledge and how to interact with people who are neuro-diverse. The idea of letting go of traditional behaviour management techniques in favour of building experiences through engagement is the main result to come out of this work. 

Conducting in person research contributes in a major way to understanding of what really works in an everyday educational setting. 

This research focused on testing the validity of a well known and evidenced based practice in a day to day classroom setting. We found that the idea of rewards and using token economies to change behaviour is not always a straightforward process in a fully functioning dynamic classroom. This project taught us a great deal about the value of thinking outside the box to create conversations around what practices we use in education and why.  This research has been published several times and we were proud be invited to present our results at the American Educational Researchers Association's international conference in 2019.