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Monday 9am - 5:30pm Tuesday 9am - 5:30pm Wednesday 9am - 5:30pm Thursday 9am - 5:30pm Friday 9am - 5:30pm Saturday 9am - 3pm

Shining Stars Support Services for Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Shining Stars Support Services for Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Providing ABA Therapy for children and youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other related behavioural and developmental concerns.

Shining Stars School is a Ministry of Education non-inspecred alternative school children ages 4-11 with Autism.

01/21/2026

Children with Autism observe everything:

Our love
Our care
Our empathy
Our tone

They see, hear and observe everything. Let's show them how trusting the world is.

01/19/2026

Music and autism have a strong and well-documented connection. Music can be both deeply engaging and highly beneficial for many autistic individuals across communication, emotional regulation, learning, and social connection.

🎵 Why music resonates with many autistic people

Predictability & structure: Rhythm, melody, and patterns can feel calming and safe.

Sensory regulation: Music can help regulate emotions and sensory input (either soothing or energizing).

Emotional expression: Music can offer a way to express feelings that are hard to verbalize.

Strong musical memory: Some autistic individuals show heightened pitch recognition or musical recall.

Intrinsic motivation: Music can be naturally motivating, increasing engagement in learning.

The benefits are endless. Come visit with us to discover the power and effect music has for our learners. ❤️

12/31/2025

What a year it's been and sadly, Instagram limits posts to 20 pictures at the most. It's been a year filled with fun, learning, new learners, new experiences and we will continue the same mission we've always had - Children Can Succeed. Thanks to our amazing team, our learners and the special environment we have. Here's to a blessed, beautiful and healthy start to 2026. ❤️ #2026

12/19/2025

🎄✨ This season, we want to say THANK YOU ✨🎄
To our incredible team—your dedication, compassion, and hard work make a difference every single day. We are so grateful for everything you do for our families, clients, and each other.
Wishing you a joyful holiday season filled with rest, warmth, and well-deserved celebration ❤️

11/24/2025

Speech-Language Pathologist + Occupational Therapist = a dedicated team of clinicians working to support independence, communication, regulation and fun 😁 ❤️ 🌟

10/31/2025

October has flown by in swirls of pumpkin fun, treats, masks and spooky fun 👻. Wishing everyone a fang-tastic Halloween filled with laughter, fun and the right amount of spookiness 🍊 🧡 🎃 👻 ❤️

10/16/2025

Parenting a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder cones with incredible joys and bumps in the road, too. Each child's learning journey is unique.

At Shining Stars, here are some things that can truly make a difference:

Patience and Understanding - celebrate small steps and reinforce the efforts.

Supportive Communication - each child's communication method is valid - whether through pictures, words, or gestures

Encouragement of Strengths-Focus on what lights them up - their interests, preferences, and likes.

Predictability and Calm-Structure and routines can help students feel safe and comfortable

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10/15/2025

Who said Tuesdays can't be exciting? l 😎 Check out today's highlights and what made today fun-from reading a student's response to what he's grateful for : "Everything", a star student showing us his beautiful skills in literacy and early numeracy, to another star student waiting patiently for other learners to join her at group time - we do have fun!

10/10/2025

This Thanksgiving, Shining Stars is grateful for our beautiful Autism community- parents, team members, students, and volunteers. This Thanksgiving, we take a moment to appreciate and be grateful for:

-Joy and comfort in routines for our special kids
-Love and support from our families, staff, caregivers and community partners.
-Smiles and laughter that are infectious and light up our environment.

Wishing you all a blessed, cozy and comfortable Thanksgiving.

10/08/2025

Thank you so much Nada and Dahlia for visiting with Shining Stars Support Services and Shining Stars School today. It was a joy and pleasure to share our love and passion!

10/03/2025

Week at Shining Stars 🌟

Another week down. From spotting turkeys to time with therapy dogs to life skills training for our older Stars to candid and fun moments, we are grateful for all of the wins! ❤️

10/01/2025

We are definitely nuts about nature and all things outdoors. Having the privilege of access to a vegetable garden with the largest pumpkin ever is ever so wonderful 😋

Address

1700 Mazo Crescent
Mississauga, ON
L5J1Y8

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	9am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	9am - 5:30pm
Thursday	9am - 5:30pm
Friday	9am - 5:30pm
Saturday	9am - 3pm

Website

http://www.shiningstarssupport.ca/

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Our Stars are all exceptional, magnificent and unique! Love our Shining Star family.

Rania Ghobrial’s passion and desire to help build confidence among students with Autism can be traced back to 2004. I began working with a grade eight student whose school-based staff said he regularly and frequently demonstrated acting out behaviours. The behaviours ranged from screaming, jumping up and down, noncompliance, running away from teachers to lunging at school -based staff. Although he could communicate well and had varying academic ability, his behavioural and sensory needs compounded the ability to show his strengths. There were a number of instances where the student was excluded from school and other school-based activities due to his challenges during the school day. He transitioned to my care in 2005. He moved from a Special Education intermediate class to a mainstream grade 8 class. Although he had varying skills in academic areas, it was the social and behavioural challenges that caused others to become hypervigilant around him.

Without further ado, I developed a structured program for him. He had an individualized, visual schedule that indicated in what order his tasks were presented, when his movement breaks were and when he was all finished and ready for dismissal.

Within one month, the student was able to sit and attend for up to 30 minutes, developed skills in reading comprehension, could transition to and from a break period adaptively and was completely independent during his break periods.

Fast forward twelve years later, the student has a part time job at Boston Pizza, is independently taking the transit to and from his workplace. I came to know that he started driving lessons, with continued adult support.