Children who are experiencing learning difficulties at school are frequently referred for psychoeducational assessment.
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Recognizing and Referring Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: The role of the Physiotherapist
Physiotherapists assess young children with motor difficulties and/or delays by observing movement skills and asking critical key questions about their motor abilities and development.
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Recognizing and Referring Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: The role of the optometrist
Children who present with school-related difficulties that have a visual or visual-motor basis may have a number of things happening. In this flyer, we provide information about school-aged children who have had their vision tested and who do not appear to have significant visual problems.
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Recognizing and Referring Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: The Role of the Physician
When parents bring their children into the office for healthy child visits, you have a wonderful opportunity to explore many areas of child development including cognitive, speech, language, gross motor and fine motor, social and self-care.
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Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Guidelines
Concussion/Mild Traumatic Brain Injury has been receiving warranted attention over the past 2 years, after years of the impact of concussion being minimized.
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Partnering for Change Model
The Partnering for Change team used evidence from the literature to design a conceptual model that was tested in school settings and refined.
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Metformin and Neural Repair in Mouse Models of Cerebral Palsy
Metformin is an promising drug that may be effective in the treatment of people with CP following brain injury.
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Meet Jessica (Video)
In this video, Jessica (a community advisor on cerebral palsy research and person with lived experience) and Jan Willem (a clinician researcher studying cerebral palsy) tell us about cerebral palsy, some of the misconceptions that surround it and what we can do to tackle them. Produced by the Ontario Brain Institute for Brain Awareness Week 2017.
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M.A.T.C.H. Flyers: A Resource for Educators
The most important thing a teacher can do to help a child reach his/her full potential is to make sure the task and the learning environment are right for the child.
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Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (Concussion) Education
n collaboration with the College of Family physicians and the Provincial MTBI Strategy, the team will work to develop and evaluate user-friendly materials that help physicians in: identification of MTBI; recommendations for return to activity and school; referral guidelines for further services, specifically for children/youth in their practice.
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