Who We Support
Specialized behavioural support across a wide range of diagnoses, presentations, and life contexts. Serving children, youth, and adults throughout the GTA.
Dasdey Behavioural Services coordinates specialized behavioural support across a wide range of diagnoses, presentations, and life contexts. We work with children, youth, and adults across the Greater Toronto Area in home, school, community, residential, and respite settings.
Our approach is individualized. We match credentialed independent associates based on the person's specific needs, communication style, behavioural profile, and the setting where support is delivered. A young child who is non-verbal, a teen with ODD-related defiance, and an adult returning home from hospital each need something different. Dasdey focuses on matching the right associate to the right person, not on pushing a one-size-fits-all template. Learn more about our support models or the funding programs we work with.
Diagnoses We Have Experience With
Our associate network has hands-on experience supporting individuals across the following diagnostic profiles. Support is always adapted to the individual, not the label. Specific Associate credentials and training vary. We match Associates to engagements based on the credentials required for each specific service.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
1:1, 2:1, and 3:1 behavioural support across home, community, school, and respite settings. Support is tailored to the individual's communication style, sensory profile, routines, and goals.
Developmental disabilities
Behavioural support for everyday living, routine consistency, skill-building, and community participation. Associates work alongside families and existing clinical teams where applicable.
Intellectual disabilities
Practical, patient support across home, school, and day programs. Focus is on stability, daily living skills, and meaningful participation.
Dual diagnosis (developmental disability and mental health)
Support for individuals navigating both developmental and mental health needs. Associates coordinate with existing clinical providers and stay within a clear behavioural support scope.
Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)
Associates support individuals rebuilding routines, communication, and daily living after brain injury. Focus is on consistency, calm environments, and personalized pacing.
ADHD
Support for individuals whose impulsivity, focus, or regulation challenges are affecting home, school, or community life. Associates use structured routines and environmental setup.
OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder)
Behavioural support that works alongside any existing clinical plan. Associates respect the individual's distress while helping reduce crisis escalation and supporting coping strategies.
ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder)
Relational, non-coercive support focused on trust, emotional regulation, and clear expectations. Associates avoid punitive approaches.
Anxiety-related behavioural presentations
Support for individuals whose anxiety shows up as avoidance, school refusal, meltdowns, or shutdowns. Associates focus on regulation, predictability, and steady relationship building.
Global Developmental Delay (GDD)
Patient, individualized support across home, school, and community settings. Associates adapt pacing and communication to match the person.
Behavioural Presentations We Support
How our associates approach the behaviours families and agencies most often ask us about.
Aggression (toward self or others)
Our associates are trained in de-escalation, crisis prevention, and behaviour support plan implementation. Focus is on safety, consistency, and understanding the underlying triggers.
Self-injurious behaviour
Associates use trained de-escalation techniques and safety-focused support while working alongside clinical teams to follow the person's behaviour plan.
Elopement and wandering
Environmental setup, active supervision strategies, and preventive planning. The goal is keeping the person safe while respecting autonomy.
Emotional dysregulation
Associates support regulation through predictable routines, co-regulation, and sensory-aware environments. The focus is preventing escalation before it starts.
Property destruction
Associates focus on the triggers beneath the behaviour, not only the behaviour itself. Safety planning, environmental adjustments, and consistent responses reduce frequency over time.
Trauma-related behavioural responses
Trauma-informed, relational support. Associates work slowly, predictably, and without forcing participation.
Communication-related frustration
Support for individuals who are non-verbal, minimally verbal, or whose communication needs are not being met. Associates reinforce the person's existing communication supports, such as AAC, visuals, or sign.
Sensory-related behaviours
Environmental awareness, sensory breaks, and adaptive planning. Associates build sensory-aware routines alongside the individual and family.
Sleep and routine disruptions
Associates support consistent evening and morning routines, overnight respite where appropriate, and structure around sleep hygiene. We work with what a family or program has already put in place.
OCD-related behaviours and repetitive rituals
Our associates support individuals managing OCD-related behaviours with structured routines, de-escalation, and approaches that respect the individual's distress while gently supporting coping strategies. We work alongside any existing clinical team.
ODD-related defiance
Our associates focus on relational trust, de-escalation, clear expectations, and emotional regulation support. We avoid punitive or coercive approaches.
ADHD-related impulsivity
Our associates support individuals with ADHD through structured routines, environmental setup, predictable transitions, and emotional regulation support. We work with the individual's natural rhythms rather than against them.
Transition-related instability
Our associates support individuals through both everyday transitions (activity to activity, home to school) and major life transitions (new school, new home, aging out of pediatric services, program changes). Transitions are one of our core areas of focus.
Life Situations We Support Families Through
Sometimes what you need isn't defined by a diagnosis, it's defined by the moment your family is in.
New diagnosis
Families who have just received a diagnosis and are navigating what comes next.
School-related challenges
School refusal, classroom behavioural challenges, and the transitions into and out of school days.
Post-hospitalization stabilization
Returning home from inpatient stays or crisis admissions. We help rebuild routine and reduce stress during the return to everyday life.
Major life transitions
Moving to a new home, new school, new community, or new program.
Aging out of pediatric services
Youth moving into adult developmental services.
Complex placements
Residential, group home, or short-term stabilization settings.
Respite for caregivers
Planned and regular respite to reduce caregiver burnout.
What Dasdey Is (and Isn't)
We're a behavioural support agency. That's our lane, and we want you to know exactly where it starts and ends.
What Dasdey provides
- Behavioural support and respite delivered by credentialed independent associates
- 1:1, 2:1, and 3:1 support models across home, community, school, residential, and respite settings
- Funding navigation assistance (Passport, SSAH, OAP, private pay)
- Coordination with existing clinical teams (BCBAs, psychologists, psychiatrists)
What Dasdey does NOT provide
- Clinical diagnosis or assessment
- Psychological therapy or counselling
- Medical services
- Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) clinical supervision. We deliver support hours under a family's existing BCBA plan where applicable.
- Medication management
For families who need services in the right column, we're happy to refer you to appropriate providers in the GTA. Reach out and we'll point you in the right direction.
Ready to talk through what your family needs?
Every situation is different. Tell us about the person you're supporting and we'll walk through how Dasdey can help.