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The five senses

Learn all about your newborn baby's eyesight, hearing, and senses of taste, touch and smell.

Hemophilia: Recognizing bleeds

Teens living with hemophilia can learn why trusting their senses and speaking up is the best way to recognize bleeds

Imagery

Attention focusing

Hemophilia: Relaxation and distraction

Learn relaxation and distraction techniques to help relieve pain from hemophilia.

Trauma: Treatment and coping methods

Learn about the different treatment options for coping with trauma including psychotherapy, medication and coping mechanisms.

Relaxation methods for sickle cell pain: Relaxation with imagery

Relaxation with imagery involves imagining yourself in a pleasant place or situation and relaxing your muscles to improve blood flow. Learn how to practise relaxation with imagery.

Special education

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.

Somatization

Learn about somatization, the connection between the mind and body and how to get help if somatization becomes a problem.

Distraction for pain or stress

Brain tumours

Brain tumours can affect the brain and central nervous system. Learn about the signs and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis for brain tumours in teenagers.

Brain tumours: An overview

An overview of the causes, genetics, symptoms, diagnosis, environmental risks and treatment of childhood brain tumours.

What does scoliosis look like?

There are five different curve patterns in the spines of children with scoliosis. Learn about these, and other physical changes that can occur.

What does scoliosis look like?

There are five different curve patterns in the spines of teenagers with scoliosis. Learn about these, and other physical changes that can occur.

Playtime at the hospital for preschoolers aged three to five years

Learn about play for preschoolers staying in the hospital.

Assessing younger school-aged children (age five to eight)

Learn about pain assessment of younger school-age children. By this age, children begin to develop a sense of cause and effect concerning their pain.

What is distraction?

PET (positron emission tomography) scan and cancer diagnosis

A PET scan is a diagnostic test that shows where cancer cells are in the body. Find out how PET scans are done, what to expect during the scan and when you get your results.

An overview of the brain

An in-depth overview of the brain and how it works. Read further to find out the different parts of the brain and what they do, how the brain is organized, and what the brain is made of.

How child life specialists can help your child

Learn how a child life specialist can help make your child's hospital experience as positive as possible.

Apgar score

Read about the Apgar score, which is used to assess a newborn baby's well-being using five categories: heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflexes and skin colour.

Osteoporosis: Managing bone pain

Bone pain is one of the most challenging aspects of osteoporosis. Learn about the different ways that bone pain can be treated.

Blalock-Thomas-Taussig (BTT) shunts

The Blalock-Thomas-Taussig (BTT) shunt helps babies with certain heart defects get enough oxygen until they can have surgery to fix the defect.

Needing a brace after scoliosis surgery

Following scoliosis surgery, some teenagers may need to wear a brace. Learn about how the brace is made, and why and when it is used.

Behavioural strategies for pain management

Learn about behavioural strategies such as biofeedback and CBT. These strategies can be used for effective pain management for children.