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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.
This resource provides information about violence and BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre, Girls Speak Out program, its curriculum and some recommended websites about this topic. It's aimed to support women with experiences of violence.
Join Jett on his journey through the human body to learn how stem cells work and what happens before and after an autologous or allogeneic transplant.
We have created this booklet to highlight a number of key topics for women with SCI (spinal cord injury) and their families to consider during the perinatal period, defined as the time before conceiving (pre-conception), pregnancy, labour, delivery and postpartum (the first few days and weeks after…
This guide for families summarizes the results of an international consensus on the medical care of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). This effort was supported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with patient advocacy groups and the TREAT-NMD network. The m…
This game turns cooperating, negotiating and learning the importance of being a good friend into a win-win game. It aims to: develop critical thinking skills; express ideas and emotions in words; expand understanding of self and others; respect the ideas and differences of others; understand the co…
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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.
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Wednesday, April 3, 2024 |
A game to encourage social thinking and social problem solving. Appropriate for pre-teens, teens, and young adults with and without autism spectrum disorders, ADHD, nonverbal learning disorder, and other social learning challenges.
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This talk kit is designed to help families have an open dialogue with teenagers about any issue, but cannabis in particular.
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This talk kit is designed to help families have an open dialogue with teenagers about any issue, but cannabis in particular.
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In graphic novel format, the Medikidz, superheroes from the planet Mediland, help Caitlin and Daniel understand diabetes and how it can affect them and their family.
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Join Ella as she learns how cystic fibrosis affects the lungs and pancreas, how CF is treated, and what it means to have a genetic disorder.
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Join Jonathan on his journey to learn about all the people on his health care team who will support him before, during, and after his medical procedure.
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Join Tim on his journey through the human body to learn more about type 1 diabetes symptoms and treatment.
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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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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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In graphic novel format, the Medikidz, superheroes from the planet Mediland, help Elliot understand eczema.
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In graphic novel format, the Medikidz, superheroes from the planet Mediland, help Kevin understand blood transfusions
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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 Amy on her journey to learn more about the digestive system, how ulcerative colitis affects your body and treatment to avoid flare-ups.
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Join Corey on his journey to learn about how the heart works, different types of congenital heart defects, and how heart defect symptoms are treated.
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Join Tara on her journey to learn more about managing seizure triggers, epilepsy symptoms, and treatment.
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Follow Megan as she learns about CT scan machines.
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Since we introduced the Superflex® Curriculum in 2008, creative educators, therapists, parents, and related service professionals have come up with all sorts of new ways to teach the concepts and ideas related to Superflex. Yet, you wanted games and visual teaching tools to make your teachings even…
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Superflex Superdecks are card games created to invoke your own superflexible thinking as you teach students to be more superflexible social thinkers. It's all about superflexibility! The game pack is a companion teaching tool to the popular Superflex Curriculum, which helps parents and professional…
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Superflex® Bingo is a flexible, fun, and educational game! It enables students to practice identifying Social Thinking concepts and Superflex characters to strengthen their self-regulation and superflexible thinking powers. This is not a stand-alone teaching tool, do not introduce this game until y…
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Filled with with activities and puzzles related to epilepsy.
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This booklet has been created to help children and their families feel more at ease with the organ transplantation process by providing general information in an understandable format. Most importantly, it is designed to let the readers know that they are not alone and that there are other children…
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Learn the human body while having fun.; 76 magnets and 1 magnetic board to learn and assemble the different parts of the human body. 4 maps with detailed explanations on: the skeleton, the organs, the muscles and the body.
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The Impulse control Game is an educational and therapeutic board game designed to help children with ADD, ADHD, and other conditions involving impulse control problems. Learning to stop and think is a good start, but effective control of impulses requires the acquisition of specific skills. The gam…
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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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