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Getting through the teen years and cancer

Find information to help promote independence in your teenager while continuing to help them manage their cancer treatment.

Feeding your toddler or preschooler

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Discover some easy, creative and nutritious meal and snack ideas for your toddler or preschooler.

Anorexia nervosa: Medical complications

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Learn how anorexia nervosa causes malnutrition and disrupts the body's usual functions.

Bulimia nervosa: Signs and symptoms

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Find out how to tell if your child might have bulimia nervosa.

Vision in the first year

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Learn about the development of a baby's vision in the first year of life, including the development of spatial perception and depth perception.

Treatment options for anorexia nervosa

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Find out about the range of in-hospital and outpatient treatments that can help a child recover from anorexia nervosa.

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.

Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID): Medical complications

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Learn how avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder can cause long-term health problems.

Phenylketonuria (PKU) transitions in the early years

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Children growing up with phenylketonuria (PKU) need to incorporate health care into their normal routines. Read about encouraging proper development.

Bulimia nervosa: How you can help your child at home

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Find out how you can help your child or teen recover from bulimia nervosa.

Factors affecting pain assessment

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Learn about the factors that affect pain assessment such as our emotions, behaviour and cultural attitudes to pain.

Growth and development when a child has diabetes

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Find out what it's like for a child with diabetes to adjust to different challenges of managing the condition at different ages and stages.

How to help a child understand and cope with their emotions

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Find out how you can help your child cope with difficult emotions by learning and talking about them.

Brain tumours: Helping siblings cope

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Information on the extremely difficult task of helping siblings adjust to their sibling suffering from a brain tumour.

Telling your child about the operation

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When you tell your child about the operation depends on your child's age and how anxious you think your child will be. Use the ages on this page as a guideline.

Mathematics: How to help your pre-school and school-aged child

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Learn about the everyday activities, like playing games, you can do with your young child to help develop their math skills.

Organized sports: A winning formula for children

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Learn about the benefits of taking part in organized sports for your child.

Transitions during hospitalization for intestinal failure

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Learn tips to help navigate the transitions you and your child will experience during their hospital stay for intestinal failure and when planning to return home from the hospital.

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.

Congenital heart disease: Looking ahead

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In this section of the site, you will learn about the issues children born with congenital heart condition may face at different ages.

The heart transplant operation

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A heart transplant operation takes four to 10 hours. Learn what happens during the transplant and the major problems that may occur.

Intellectual development and children with heart disease

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Read about how the development of a child's intellect may be affected by a congenital heart condition.

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Speech and language development between ages 3 and 5

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Find out how a child’s speech and language skills usually develop between the ages of 3 and 5 years, when to be concerned and what you can do to support communication development.

Physical development in school-age children

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During the school-age years, your child is acquiring the fundamental skills to lead a healthy life as an adult. Find out more about this developmental phase, and whether your child is on track to achieving specific milestones.

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.