This Keeping Current is one of a series of reports that discuss the effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions for children and youth with brain injury.
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These six F-words won’t fill up your swear jar: What do the F-words mean to youth with impairments? (Video)
Young people discuss what the “F-words” in disability mean to them, while celebrating all they CAN do!
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Serial Casting in the Upper Extremity of Children with Cerebral Palsy
Serial casting is an intervention practice that is becoming more commonly used in occupational therapy (OT) practice, in addition to other treatment modalities/protocols for children with cerebral palsy to manage spasticity and related contractures.
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Safely Returning Children and Youth to Activity after mTBI/Concussion
The decision regarding return to activity following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI)/concussion is one of the most difficult and controversial areas in concussion management.
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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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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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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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Disability and Child Development: Integrating the Concepts
The purpose of this Keeping Current is to review the concern that, rather than being integrated, these two streams (“development” and “disability”) of thought have traditionally run more or less in parallel.
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DMCN Author Podcast | Autism Classification System of Functioning: Social Communication (ACSF: SC)
Peter Rosenbaum and Briano di Rezze discuss autism, social communication and the Autism Classification System.
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Concussion/Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Guideline Brochures
Child specific Return to Activity guidelines, which are more conservative than adult guidelines, were developed to guide management when youth sustain a concussion.
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