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Math disabilities: Overview

A math disability is when a child has significant challenges with math. Learn about math disabilities, their symptoms, and how they are diagnosed and treated.

Learning disabilities: Overview

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A learning disability can be related to reading, writing or math. Learn about the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of learning disabilities.

What to do when your teen is not learning new health-care skills

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Learn some of the reasons why teens may stop doing self-care tasks and what you can do to help them. Also learn about some of the issues that teens with special needs have and how to help them learn new tasks.

Reading disabilities: Overview

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A reading disability is a specific type of learning disability. Learn about the symptoms of a reading disability, diagnosis and treatment.

Learning disabilities

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A child with a learning disability has significant challenges with reading, writing and/or math. These learning problems can affect how they perform in school. Learn more about learning disabilities, their symptoms, and how they are diagnosed and treated.

Behavioural and learning issues

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Read about various behavioral problems that premature babies may develop as they grow. In general, the most premature babies are more at risk.

Phenylketonuria (PKU) transitions in the teenage years

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Teenagers with phenylketonuria (PKU) face the unique challenge of balancing their health with their growing independence. Read about how you can support your teen with PKU.

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.

Menstruation and developmental disability

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Suggestions for parents and caregivers of a young person with a developmental disability who has just started or is about to start menstruating. Menstrual suppression of periods is also discussed.

Writing disabilities: Overview

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A writing disability is when a child has significant challenges with writing. Learn about writing disabilities, their symptoms, and how they are diagnosed and treated.

Epilepsy and learning

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Learn how to support a child with epilepsy who experiences some of the cognitive consequences associated with the condition.

Helping your child transition through health care: Teens

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Recommendations for helping your child navigate through the health-care system as a teenager and gain independence in managing their own health care.

Acute pain: How to assess in teens

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Find out how to recognize the signs of acute pain at home and how your teen's pain is assessed in medical settings.

Brain disorders and mental health: Overview

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Brain disorders can be caused by medical conditions, illness or injury. Find out how they can affect a child's mental health and overall functioning.

Federal tax breaks for children with disabilities in Canada

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A helpful resource on federal tax breaks for children with chronic condition in Canada.

Sickle cell disease: Encouraging your teen's independence

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Teens with sickle cell disease may need encouragement to become more independent with taking their medications as instructed, filling their prescriptions and making clinic appointments. Learn what you can do to encourage your teen to manage their condition independently.

How the Sickle Cell Disease Learning Hub is organized

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Learn about the different sections and topics in the Sickle Cell Disease Learning Hub and what to expect from each one.

Transitioning to adult care: Resources

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A list of resources for transitioning to adult care.

Somatization: Signs and symptoms

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Somatization is the expression of distress through physical symptoms and results from the mind-body or brain-body connection. Find out how it affects your child's health.

Moving on: Working when you have a health condition

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Learn about some of the points to consider when entering the workforce as a teen with a health condition.

Cannabis: How to talk with your teen

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Learn about how to have an informed conversation with your teen about cannabis.

Starting a reward system for your teen to help them manage their juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)

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Learn how setting up a reward system can help your teenager accomplish new JIA management goals.

Dyslexia

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Dyslexia is a learning disability that affects reading and spelling. Learn more about strategies to support your child’s specific needs.

Body piercing

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Learn about considerations for discussing body piercings with your teen, including how to identify a trusted piercing studio and how to care for a body piercing.

How the iCanCope with Sickle Cell Pain program works

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This program is for teens aged 12 to 18 and their caregivers. It is designed to help teens learn how to better manage and live with sickle cell pain.