Our Centre

Part of the Montreal community since 1869

For more than one hundred and thirty years, the Mackay Rehabilitation Centre has made a difference in the lives of countless children, adolescents and adults, today offering rehabilitation, adaptation and social integration services to children with a physical or communication impairment, as well as deaf and hard-of-hearing children and adults.

While once an educational institution for the deaf, and subsequently physically handicapped children as well, the Centre has truly evolved. Now a private under convention Rehabilitation Centre, our team of dedicated professionals and volunteers deliver a broad spectrum of programs and services for children, adolescents and adults.

The Mackay Rehabilitation Centre is centrally located in Montreal, on a bus route and near two metro stations. Its comprehensive rehabilitation facilities include a new adapted playground and a therapeutic swimming pool. A specialized English Montreal School Board elementary school for deaf and physically handicapped children is also located on the campus.


Rehabilitation, adaptation and social integration

The Mackay Rehabilitation Centre prides itself in offering a family-centred approach to its rehabilitation, adaptation and social integration services, creating an individual intervention plan tailored to each client's goals, which is delivered with respect and dignity.

We use a variety of means to reach our clients' goals, including:

  • Individual and group therapies
  • Interventions in the client's environment (home, daycare, school, community, etc)
  • Workshops, lectures and support groups
  • Assistive technology and aids assessment, fabrication and installation.

Whatever appropriate approach our team of professionals develops in conjunction with our clients will be constantly re-evaluated, to evolve in step with each person's changing needs.

Admission to the Mackay Rehabilitation Centre is made through the referral of a health care professional.


"The Mackay Centre has worked wonders with our son for his speech therapy. This centre has a fantastic group of people working here. A parent can rest assured that their child is receiving the best service available."

Jodie Lennon, client, 2004



"Ruth Wiseberg-Dworkan started to lose her hearing when she was 32 years old and it gradually decreased. At age 85, Ruth heard about the Cochlear implant and she came to the Mackay Centre for more information. At 86, Ruth became the oldest client at the Mackay Centre, and in Quebec, to get a Cochlear implant. Ruth believes that no matter what obstacle is in front of you, you must go on and that is the way to go through life."

Liliane Brunetti, Audiologist, 2004