Palliative care includes reducing the physical, psychological, social and spiritual suffering that is associated with serious illness. Learn about the role palliative care providers can have in your child’s care.
Learn about the supports available to families coping with pregnancy and infant loss, including perinatal palliative care.
Learn about other types of pain, including recurrent, procedural, and palliative pain. Read about how they are treated. Lumbar punctures are discussed.
There are specific games and exercises that parents can do to help increase phonological awareness in their child.
Books and websites with information about heart conditions in children.
Learn about articulation milestones in children and when to consider a speech assessment with a speech-language pathologist for articulation difficulties.
This page contains a series of links to activities and games that support the different strategies of the CARD system.
Phonological awareness is the ability to recognize that words are made up of individual sounds. Phonological awareness goes through developmental stages like other language-related skills.
Learn how your child can minimize infection at home, after the blood and marrow transplant.
The Blalock-Thomas-Taussig (BTT) shunt helps babies with certain heart defects get enough oxygen until they can have surgery to fix the defect.
Learn about the different types of brain tumours, how they are diagnosed and treated, and the various supports available to families.
The Norwood procedure is usually done as part of a series of surgeries to help the ventricle pump blood out to the body.
Teens living with hemophilia can learn why taking drugs create problems rather than solve them.
Learn how to properly care for your child if they have been bitten or scratched by an animal.
Read about pulmonary atresia; a condition involving the pulmonary valve, between the right ventricle and pulmonary artery, not forming completely.
Yoga can be a helpful way to reduce stress, stretch and relax. Learn about the benefits of yoga and poses you can do both at home and at the hospital.
Learn about open-heart, closed-heart, and minimally invasive heart surgery.
Learn about cardiology treatment teams, which focus on treating children with heart conditions. The specific role of each team member is discussed.
Nurse practitioners are registered nurses who have additional formal education. Find out how a nurse practitioner is different from a nurse and what they can do to help you during your treatment.
Try these yoga poses when you wake up to relieve morning stiffness, or throughout the day to relieve tension.
Learn about the reading skills expected of your child at different stages.
Learn about the treatment of heart conditions. Find out about the different types of heart treatment and the right questions you should ask the doctor about the treatment.
If your child has a weak immune system learn how to protect them against infection.
Learn about relaxation techniques, such as progressive muscle relaxation and hypnosis, that can be used for pain management in children.
