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Congenital heart defects: Information for teachers

A teacher's guide to congenital heart defects. Learn what you can do to help and what to expect if one of your students has a congenital heart defect.

Social and emotional development in a baby’s first year

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Read about social and emotional development in a baby’s first year of life.

Self-efficacy in children

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Learn why self-efficacy is important for academic success and well-being in children.

Special education

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Special education is the public educational system’s approach to helping all kinds of exceptional students reach their potential and get a useful education. Exceptionality, with respect to needs, can be identified in a number of domains, including problems with the senses, emotional problems or behavioural problems, autistic spectrum disorders, global developmental delay or intellectual disability, specific learning disabilities and giftedness.

Intestinal failure: Transitions during adolescence

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Find information to help support your teen (12 to 18 years of age) with intestinal failure transition through developmental ages and stages.

The scoliosis health-care team

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Learn about all the health-care professionals involved in taking care of a patient with scoliosis, including doctors, nurses and other health-care workers.

Enhancing movement skills in your child

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Discover some tips to help your child learn fundamental movement skills.

Social and recreational services for autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

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Provides information about the various social and recreational resources that are available for children with disabilities such as autism spectrum disorder.

A teacher's guide to celiac disease

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Learn about celiac disease and the strict gluten-free diet and how to best support a child living with celiac disease in order to create an inclusive and safe classroom.

School and children with heart disease

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Learn how congenital heart disease can affect a child’s experience in school.

Premature babies: Advocating for your child at school

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Your goal is to work with your child's teacher to get the best education for your child. Your child has the right to attend school and if you feel they're not getting a "fair shake," get involved with the administration.

Physical activity and sport post lung transplant

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Learn about the important role physical activity plays in improving the social, emotional and physical health of children who have had a lung transplant.

Autism spectrum disorder

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Information about the characteristics and causes of autism, how it is diagnosed and the treatments involved.

Physical activity and sport post heart transplant

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Find out why physical activity plays an important role in improving the social, emotional and physical health of children who have had a heart transplant.

Developmental paediatricians

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Developmental paediatricians are doctors who specialize in child development. Learn what they do and how they can help your child.

Intestinal rehabilitation program (IRP)

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Learn what an intestinal rehabilitation program is, which areas of care are involved in an intestinal rehabilitation program and how they help children with managing intestinal failure.

Physical activity and intestinal failure

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Physical activity plays an important role in improving the social, emotional and physical health of children who have intestinal failure.

Types of community health services

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There are many different types of community health services that are available to help you and your child.

School services for autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

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Provides information about the various services that are available in schools for children with autism spectrum disorder. Also provides information about other programs that can be used to help pre-school and school-age children.

The brain tumour health-care team

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An overview of the many different health-care professionals that are involved in the care of a child with a brain tumour.

The cancer care team: Social worker

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A social worker can help you and your family manage your social and emotional needs during cancer treatment. Find out when you or your family would talk to a social worker and why.

Developing an ASD program for your child

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Information about the components of a good treatment program for autism spectrum disorder.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD): New standards for diagnosis

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Learn about DSM-5, the new criteria for diagnosing autism that were introduced in 2013.

Phenylketonuria (PKU) transitions in the teenage years

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Teenagers with phenylketonuria (PKU) face the unique challenge of balancing their health with their growing independence. Read about how you can support your teen with PKU.

Brain disorders and mental health: How to help your child cope

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Find out how you can help your child cope with the challenges of a neurological condition and any related mental health issues.