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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.
Put the pleasure back into eating with The Quiet Gut Cookbook, a delicious solution for those who want to avoid a lifetime of bland meals. Suitable for sufferers of IBS, IBD, or Celiac disease, the low-FODMAP diet relieves common IBS symptoms and reduces digestive distress. The Quiet Gut Cookbook o…
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When kids feel good about themselves, they naturally perform better. This book will take you step-by-step through the process of helping your children transform negative thoughts, images and feelings into positive affirming ones that result in successful behavior and feelings of greater confidence.
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Ovis is a sheep that is misunderstood by his family and his peers. He has sensory processing issues, therefore he doesn't eat. But when Ovis gets some new ideas about how to cope from an occupational therapist, he gets back on track.; For ages 3-10
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This is Gabriel Making Sense of School provides a look into the challenges children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) face in the classroom. This easy-to-read and beautifully illustrated picture book gives teachers, parents, and students a better understanding of all seven senses, how they are…
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This cookbook offers over 150 recipes for soft and smooth diets. Recipes clearly state whether they are intended for all diets or for easy-to-chew, soft, or smooth/pureed eating plans. Includes comprehensive nutritional facts and diabetic exchanges for each dish. Tackles difficult problems like los…
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Join Lilian on her journey to learn how food allergies affect the body, steps to take to avoid allergic reactions, and what to do in an emergency.
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In Meet the Overs and the Unders, your child will be introduced to two different families, the Overs and the Unders, as they explore the eight different sensory systems and their over- or under-reactions to different sensory input.; Beautiful illustrations paired with just the right questions, this…
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In Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating, a family doctor specializing in childhood feeding joins forces with a speech pathologist to help you support your child's nutrition, healthy growth, and end meal-time anxiety (for your child and you) once and for all.; Helping Your Child with Extreme…
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If your teen has an eating disorder - such as anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating - you may feel helpless, worried, or uncertain about how you can best support them. That?s why you need real, proven-effective strategies you can use right away. Whether used in conjunction with treatment or on its own…
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This innovative and easy-to-implement visual approach demonstrates balanced meals with the optimal ratio of nutrients. The plate-by-plate method is rooted in the leading psychological approach to ED, family-based treatment (FBT), which enables parents to treat their child at home rather than send t…
This is a story about a little girl living with a sensory processing disorder who learns to navigate through the too loud, too bright, too fast world using her special sensory tool kit. Nicolette, age 4, loves to dance! She is excited because she is going to her very first dance class, but her tumm…
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Through artwork, poetry, story-telling, and meticulous research, Lighting Up a Hidden World: CFS and ME takes readers into the fascinating, yet frightening, landscape of ME/CFS. Author Valerie Free shares her personal experiences and delivers illuminating first-hand perspectives from patients, care…
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This is the latest edition of the classic book. It includes fresh insights and suggestions as well as the author's time-tested methods to solve common problems and build foundations for lasting relationships, including ways to:; · Cope with your child's negative feelings, such as frustration, …
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Information about the food challenge test to determine if your child is allergic to a specific food.
This pamphlet offers tips and strategies for helping your child prepare for surgery. There's separate sections with tips for infants, toddlers, preschooler age children, school-age children, and teens.
Set in the Nicola Valley, British Columbia, an Indigenous family goes on an outing to forage for herbs and mushrooms. A grandmother passes down her knowledge of plant life and the natural world to her young grandchildren.
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Cindy Crabb provides a DIY tour of the promise and perils of sexual relationships in Learning Good Consent. Building ethical relationships is one of the most important things we can do, but sex, consent, abuse, and support can get complicated. This collection is an indispensable guide to both preve…
Written in Vietnamese, this pamphlet offers tips and strategies for helping your child prepare for surgery. There's separate sections with tips for infants, toddlers, preschooler age children, school-age children, and teens.
Written in Punjabi, this pamphlet offers tips and strategies for helping your child prepare for surgery. There's separate sections with tips for infants, toddlers, preschooler age children, school-age children, and teens.
This pamphlet lists places to find high-quality information online. It also explains how to find a dietitian, and how a dietitian can help with food allergies in children.
Written in Traditional Chinese, this pamphlet offers tips and strategies for helping your child prepare for surgery. There's separate sections with tips for infants, toddlers, preschooler age children, school-age children, and teens.
Written in Simplified Chinese, this pamphlet offers tips and strategies for helping your child prepare for surgery. There's separate sections with tips for infants, toddlers, preschooler age children, school-age children, and teens.
Parents can play a strong role in helping their children overcome anxiety disorders--given the right tools. This innovative, research-based book shows clinicians how to teach parents cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques to use with their 5- to 12-year-old. Session-by-session guidelines are…
Parents can play a strong role in helping their children overcome anxiety disorders--given the right tools. This innovative, research-based book shows clinicians how to teach parents cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques to use with their 5- to 12-year-old. Session-by-session guidelines are…
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"If you're an emotional overeater, you may turn to food to cope with stress and sadness, enhance joy, and bring a sense of comfort. But, over time, overeating can cause weight gain, heart disease, diabetes, and many other health problems. In 50 More Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food, you?ll find…
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Dealing with stress, anxiety and anger are important skills to learn, but not all kids learn those strategies naturally. The Coping Skills for Kids Workbook can help teach children to calm down, balance their energy and emotions, and process challenging feelings. Author Janine Halloran, LMHC, share…
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explores why bed-wetting happens, and treatments.
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how autism affects individuals, and their siblings.
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Join Charlie on his journey to learn how leukemia is diagnosed, what cancer does to the body, and what to expect with leukemia treatment.
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Show your worries who?s boss―an OCD workbook for kids ages 6 to 11; If you worry a lot and have behaviors you can?t help repeating, you?re not alone―even though it can feel that way sometimes. The Standing Up to OCD Workbook for Kids has 40 fun activities to help you manage bad thoughts…
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explores how psoriasis affects the body, and treatment options.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explores how infections work, and explains hand hygiene.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains different degrees of burn, scarring, and how grafting works.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how thalassemia affects the body, and how treatments work.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how pneumonia affects the body, which tests diagnose pneumonia, how it's treated, and how to prevent it..
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how cancer affects the body, how chemotherapy works, and what to expect during treatment.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how asthma affects the body, and how treatments work.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how scoliosis affects the body, and how treatments work.
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Join Dara on her journey to learn about her brother's osteosarcoma, how it affects his body, possible treatment options, and how to show her support.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Maggie learns about what happens before, during, and after an operation, and the surgical team who will be taking care of her.
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In graphic novel format, the Medikidz, superheroes from the planet Mediland, help Savi understand encephalitis.
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In graphic novel format, the Medikidz, superheroes from the planet Mediland, help Isaac understand his body and the procedure for photopheresis.
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Join Tia and Gabriel on their journey to explore how obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) affects your behavior and emotions, and how to manage it.
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Join Duke on his journey to learn more about his appendix, appendicitis, and appendectomy procedure.
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Join Mark on his journey through the human body to learn about how concussions affect the brain and concussion recovery.
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Join Tara on her journey to learn more about managing seizure triggers, epilepsy symptoms, and treatment.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explores how psoriasis affects the body, and treatment options.
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This workbook has everything you need to achieve connected eating, body positivity and balanced exercise. It will help you stay well informed about how bodies change emotionally and physically in the teen years, and why good nutrition is critical for growth and development. It debunks any myths abo…
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The authors explain what we now know about SIDS and other sleep-related deaths that have frustrated medical professionals and parents for decades.
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Escape form Anger Island is designed with the busy counselor in mind, and it can be played in just 15 minutes. There are six skills in total, and one skill is the focus of each 15 minute session. Escape form Anger Island is a fun and inventive way to help kids learn about anger especially when time…
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