Therapeutic Recreation Referral
The Therapeutic Recreation team at BC Children’s Hospital helps children and youth get involved in community activities, and fosters life-long recreation and leisure experiences. Our team consists of recreation therapists, some of whom specialize in aquatics.
Services and supports we offer include:
- Helping patients discover what recreation activities and experiences they enjoy and want to explore
- Recommending recreation activities to increase patients’ quality of life, community participation and sense of joy, leading to lifelong participation
- Recommending adaptive recreation equipment that will increase independence and participation in recreation
- Providing guidance on adaptive gaming tools and resources
- Facilitating short-term loans of adapted recreation equipment
- Building the confidence of community teams, schools and partners to support patients' meaningful participation in recreation activities
Referral overview
Health-care providers can make a referral to this service.
Referral steps
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Assessment
The child/youth must meet one of the following criteria for you to make a referral:
- Experiencing a permanent or long-term change in their ability to participate in recreation (physically, cognitively, socially and emotionally)
- Ready to generalize some of the skills they have been practicing in therapies in a recreation program or in the community
- They or their family require leisure education to:
- Locate, access or participate in recreation activities in their community
- Learn new leisure skills or adapt old skills to enable participation
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Complete a form
Please complete the referral form (PDF) and include all relevant information.
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Send the referral
Fax completed referral forms (and any additional information) to: 604-453-8321.
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Post referral
If you have not already done so, let the patient and their family or caregiver know that we will contact them with an appointment time.
Referral form
Neuromotor Services Referral Form
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Contact information
If referring doctors have questions about this process, they can contact the clinic.
Phone: 604-875-2345