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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.

Emotional Well-being Tool Kit: Ages 18+

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A list of free mental health resources available to youth in Ontario who are 18 years of age or older.

Emotional Well-being Tool Kit

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A list of free mental health resources available to youth in Ontario.

Social & emotional effects for children with heart disease

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Learn about the social and emotional effects that congenital heart disease might have on a child.

Scoliosis and emotional issues

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Having scoliosis can be emotionally upsetting for young children and teenagers. Find out about some common issues they face, such as negative self-image and increased stress.

Substance use disorder: Signs and symptoms

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Discover the most common emotional, physical and behavioural signs and symptoms of problematic substance use.

Newborns and babies

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Learn about newborn nutrition, routine care and everyday health issues as well as some common physical and emotional adjustments to life after pregnancy.

Social and emotional development in school-age children

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During the school-age years, your child continues to grow socially and emotionally. Find out more about this developmental phase, and whether your child is on track to achieving specific milestones.

Living with leukemia

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Learn about the challenges children being treated for leukemia face and how their diagnoses can also affect their siblings, parents and caregivers.

Social and emotional development in toddlers and preschool-age children

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As a toddler, and during pre-school age, your child continues to grow socially and emotionally. Find out more about this developmental phase, and whether your child is on track to achieving specific milestones.

Burn injuries: Helping families cope

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Learn how to cope with emotional, social and financial stress as a family when your child has a burn injury.

Limb lengthening and reconstruction: Managing the impact on your family

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Discover how best to manage the emotional, social and financial impact of limb lengthening and reconstruction.

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.

Physical activity and sport post kidney transplant

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Physical activity plays an important role in improving the social, emotional and physical health of children who have had a kidney transplant.

Social and emotional effects after a blood and marrow transplant

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Parents can learn about social and emotional late effects for transplant survivors.

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.

Sickle cell disease: Communicating with health-care providers, teachers and other school staff

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Learn strategies to help improve your communication with your teen's health-care providers, teachers and other school staff.

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.

Depression: Signs and symptoms

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Learn how to recognize the signs and symptoms of depression, how they can impact your teen and how depression is diagnosed.

What is stress?

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Learn about stress and how it affects the body. Also learn the differences between good stress and bad stress.

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.

Coping with pain: Meditations for celiac disease

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This page contains a series of guided meditations to help you cope with physical or emotional pain and discomfort related to celiac disease and stress.

Baby's first year

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Your baby will go through many changes in their first year of life. Find out how their nutrition needs change and how you can support their physical development, communication and transition to other caregivers.

Mind-body connection

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The mind-body, or brain-body, connection is the link between a person’s thoughts, feelings and behaviour and their physical symptoms. Learn about the role that this connection plays in your child's health.

Coping with your emotions

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When anticipating scoliosis surgery, there are a wide range of emotions to be felt. Read about fears, feelings and coping advice from other teens.