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Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
The ABC?s of Anger leads children to discovery! It contains easy-to-read stories involving some aspect of the theme ?anger.? It provides children with an awareness of differing degrees of anger and helps them explore choices for responding when they are anger.; [...]; Each story begins with a lette…
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Activities to enccourage speech development for children aged birth to 2, 2 to 4 years and 4 to 6 years.
Set includes a child, youth and adult doll.
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library STACKS | On Loan, due Tuesday, May 21, 2024 | ||
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Set includes a child, youth and adult doll.
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Learning to Work provides engaging and age-appropriate reading material for older beginning readers. The stories are intended for older students who are not yet reading conventionally for a variety of reasons, including cognitive delays and significant learning disabilities. Along with building rea…
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A social skills program for elementary students to learn appropriate behaviours during a typical school day. Ideal for students with autism or behavioural disabilities. Includes 53 relevant skills with teacher guidelines and self-monitoring checklists for students. Example skills include getting re…
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Directed toward children who have met a child with autism, the author explains how the person with autism is looking for the same understanding and acceptance as others. The book encourages interactive awareness to help increase understanding and awareness.
| Copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, January 26, 2024 | ||
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From the cover: "Since 2004, Baby Sign Language Basics has introduced hundreds of thousands of families and educators around the world to the miracle of signing with their babies?and left them wanting more! Now in this new, bigger edition, Monta Briant provides more than 300 American Sign Language …
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When there's a child with a disability in the family, how are normally developing siblings affected? According to Kate Strohm, a counselor and health educator, siblings of people with disabilities face particular emotional challenges that are often overlooked. Able siblings commonly struggle with f…
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Monday, March 4, 2024 |
Information on pressure sores and how to deal with them. In an individual with spina bifida some of the nerves do not develop properly, which results in little or no sensation in some areas of the skin. Without the warning of discomfort or pain from heat, cold, sharp objects, pressure, scrapes or e…
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Written in braille and text. It is very hard for a sighted person to imagine what it is like to be blind. This award-winning book endeavors to convey the experience of a person who can only see through his or her sense of touch, taste, smell or hearing. Raised black line drawings on black paper acc…
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This book is designed to provide parents with information, tools, and activities that will help foster a safe, healthy and happy relationship with their newborn to two-year-old. Topics include unique families, relationships, storytelling, communication, emotions, attachment and developmental milest…
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Breastfeeding mothers and health caregivers from First Nations communities across Ontario share their personal experiences and valuable "how-to" information about breastfeeding. They represent diverse communities and reasons for choosing breastfeeding as the best choice for their children and thems…
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This report examines whether child protection practices are living up to the principles set out in the CFCSA – the foundation of B.C.’s child protection system. This report looks at the child welfare system from a number of perspectives, including those of service providers, social workers, and law…
Covering all stages in a child's life, from toddlers to teenagers and their postsecondary years, this book offers practical advice to parents that will help their children develop into capable, independent adults. This resource examines a parent's influence over a child's playtime, temperament, fr…
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Information on how to care for your child after cleft lip surgery including feeding, healing and incision care, pain management, and orthodontic appliances.
Information on how to care for your child after cleft palate surgery including feeding, mouth care, ear and throat care, and pain management.
This book presents a rational, healthy approach to child nutrition that offers practical and solidly researched information. The author emphasizes that an eating disorder indicates problems in the family as a whole and offers guidance for seeking help for serious disorders.
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This book explains burial and cremation to children. Begins with the funeral or memorial service, talks about what death is and the different ways people care for their loved ones bodies. Talks about how the funeral director takes care of dead bodies, the burial and cremation. Gentle and honest exp…
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Begins with what the child will see at the funeral home. Talks about the casket, what death is, and what the body will look like. Includes information about cremation and what the cemetery is like. "Later a monument or stone or plaque may be placed at the grave. It will tell the person's name and d…
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