Language Disorders Centres and Programs

Programs for Children with Language Disorders

• Early Childhood Language Centre (ECLC)
• Primary Language Centres (PLC)
• Intermediate Language Centres (ILC)

These low enrolment programs are designed for students between the ages of 5 and 12 who have been diagnosed with severe language disorders and who require more intensive supports in academics and language development than is available in the regular classroom.

ECLC is a one year kindergarten program. Students attend ECLC half days and their home school kindergarten the other half day. Parents are encouraged to participate in the school/home program.

The PLCs (Grades 1-4) are low enrollment, activity based classrooms.  Students integrate into regular classrooms as much as possible. The PLC at Dufferin is a half-day program. Children attend Dufferin one half-day and their home school for the other half-day for one year only.

In the ILCs (Grades 3-6) students receive small group instruction for part of the day and are integrated into regular classrooms for part of the day.