Butterfly Primary School Programme (K – 3)

Children's Hearing & Speech Centre of BC offer classes with a low teacher/student ratio for kindergarten and early primary years. Each classroom setting has a teacher and a teaching assistant working together to provide individualized instruction. The classroom teacher, following learning outcomes of the BC curriculum, also provides individual speech and language sessions and directs activities that promote academic excellence using dramatic play, creative arts and storytelling. All our highly qualified staff strive to meet the diverse needs of the classroom.


Students develop speech and language skills while pursuing regular studies — reading, writing, math, science, social studies, physical education, fine arts and personal planning. The goal of our school curriculum is focused on helping students become active learners and oral speakers. Our students talk, explore, write and report. Each level of activity is presented so that they can experience success and build their self-confidence. Children are encouraged to make choices, set priorities and discover new interests within a wide spectrum of activities.

We offer:
  • Oral English language training to deaf, hard-of-hearing children and hearing children
  • A strong foundation from which to build lifelong communication abilities and academic success
  • Courses that develop reading, writing, numeracy, receptive and expressive language skills
  • An enriched visual arts and music therapy programme
  • Field trips
  • A physical fitness programme
Throughout our programmes, parents participate in tutoring sessions with their child and the teachers. This family centred approach enhances the parents’ abilities to use specific learning tools and to develop their child’s communications skills in a structured way in their natural home environment.


Our school programme includes children with and without a hearing loss. Hearing children are often siblings of a child with hearing loss enrolled at the centre, from nearby neighbourhoods or speak English as a second language. Our enriched language programme promotes early interaction between children with hearing loss and their hearing peers.

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