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Grief |
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Adolescence, Various Things | ||||||
Dyslexia (see also Stealth Dyslexia) |
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Is There Something Really Wrong? |
AHS |
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Need to go public? Go public and tell your story... | ||||||
Distress Centre Calgary, Facebook page. | ||||||
General Articles |
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Live simulation to analyze medical reports | ||||||
Articles/Videos by Foothills Academy Society | ||||||
Click here for a list of presentations that are happening across Calgary and open to the public. | ||||||
Child Who is Consistently Tired Despite Adequate Sleep Should Be Evaluated by Physician | ||||||
Teenage Survival Guide | ||||||
How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime | ||||||
Character Development Lab |
How the body works for kids: http://kidshealth.org/en/kids/center/htbw-main-page.html?WT.ac=k-nav
Sexual health for teens: http://kidshealth.org/en/teens/sexual-health/?WT.ac=t-nav
For Teens: How to Make Healthy Decisions About Sex
From the Boston Children’s Hospital: Making Healthy Sexual Decisions
Talk to your sons about sex the way you would about table manners: often, says author
Violence, Bullying and Abuse Prevention Kids Help Phone, 1-800-668-6868 |
Additional Tips and Tricks: Business leaders are very much equipped to deal with bullying because the problem has been studied and documented for so long. There are many books written for business environments that are applicable to the classroom. You will find interesting scenarios and practical advice, read these books with a parent and try to figure out what's applicable to you. Powerful Phrases for Dealing With Difficult People |
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How to stop a bully |
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Why Do Kids Become Bullies? |
"Most children who become bullies have been shown, somewhere during their development, that conflict is the best way to achieve recognition and reward. Often (though not always) these kids come from high-conflict homes and/or they have not been taught the moral skills that they need. They also tend to be socially ostracized and suffer from low self-esteem.
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Cyber bullying |
Understanding harassment, mean behavior,
trolling, etc. |
https://www.commonsense.org/education/toolkit/audience/family-engagement-cyberbullying | |
Arguing: - Strawman Tactics - Ad Hominem Attack - Black and White Fallacy - Authority Fallacy - No True Scotsman Fallacy |
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Check out this book: Confident Conversation by Bechtle, Mike |
Communication is an art, and anyone--whether shy or outgoing--can improve his or her conversational skills. Dr. Mike Bechtle offers a straightforward guide to making good conversation that works for any personality type. |
Opioid Withdrawal Symptoms Include (read more about OTC and Opioids):
National Institute on Drug Abuse for Teens
Cough Medicine Abuse by Teens, Effects of Abuse
Concerns of Mixing Alcohol with Other Drugs
Pandem-Sim™ is an intense and immersive learning experience that engages your students in a live simulation to analyze medical reports from around the world.
Students quickly diagnose and treat an array of infectious diseases, study the data trends, and issue recommendations for prevention and control through public health alerts. With the help of computers, the Internet, and a video conference or webcam connection, students interact with a "Chief Epidemiologist" at the Challenger Learning Center® in Wheeling, WV.
Together, teams of students use their critical thinking skills and scientific knowledge to resolve disease outbreaks and try to prevent epidemics. During their mission, students become part of an emergency epidemiology team assembled to help resolve worldwide outbreaks. Stationed in a simulated Pandem Disease Center (PDC), students receive alerts from health officials in the field and must respond quickly to help prevent further disease cases.
Working Memory (WM) is an issue with many learning disabilities. |
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Working Memory (WM) Training |
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Strategies:
https://childmind.org/article/how-to-help-kids-with-working-memory-issues/
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Auditory Recall Comes in Last:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140312-auditory-memory-visual-learning-brain-research-science/
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Can Computer Programming Boost Your Brain Power?. - How Coding Develops Focus and Organization - Can Coding Improve Your Child's Writing Skills? Research The Cognitive Benefits of Learning Computer Programming: A Meta-Analysis of Transfer Effects Excerpt, Conclusions: "Positive transfer to situations that required creative thinking, mathematical skills, and metacognition, followed by spatial skills and reasoning existed..." Solutions for Ages 8 - 13 MIT Scratch is a free visual tool that introduces children to coding concepts to program video games. Learn how to code with your child and gradually replace passive screen time gradually with active learning. |
Math anxiety "eats up" your Working Memory
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Make It Stick offers techniques for becoming more productive learners, and cautions against study habits and practice routines that turn out to be counterproductive |
What are the signs of Dyscalculia? | https://www.dyslexia.uk.net/specific-learning-difficulties/dyscalculia/the-signs-of-dyscalculia/ |
Grades PK-2 A Hands On Approach to Early Math and Conceptual Learning |
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Types of Memory | Procedural Memory and Declarative Memory | ||||
Treating Dyscalculia |
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/11/101104-electric-current-brains-math-science-health Up to 7% of elementary school students have dyscalculia. Research suggests it's as common as dyslexia -- a reading disorder -- but not as well understood. In fact, kids and parents sometimes call it “math dyslexia,” but this can be confusing because dyscalculia is a completely different condition. Your school or doctor may call it a “mathematics learning disability” or a “math disorder.” Read more: https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/childhood-adhd/dyscalculia-facts#1/ |
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Make sure it's not just boredom! | https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/ed/17/01/bored-out-their-minds | ||||
Can Schools Say "Dyslexia"? (U.S. Department of Education Interview) |
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Resources |
How dyslexia evaluations look like (20 min video)
Practical Advice for Dealing with Dyslexia
Change the font if you are reading digital material, whenever you can.
If the font cannot be changed then use software that reads the text along with you.
Ask your teacher to record an audio of exam questions and provide the recording to you during exams.
"Natural Reader" software can create the audio file directly from the text, to make it easy on the teacher preparing these materials, and there is a free version for non-commercial use.
How a font can help people with dyslexia to read The font is explained here: https://www.dyslexiefont.com/en/typeface/ see also OpenDyslexic Font for Chrome |
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Software for Reading
Emails and Articles (Free version available for personal use). Teachers can use this software to prepare audio files for tests to help the dyslexic child. |
Natural Reader Software | |
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Procedural Memory |
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Dyslexia: Teaching Approaches | ||
The Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity - Yale School of Medicine |
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Math and Dyslexia: Dyslexic Advantage Talks to Stanford and Georgetown Experts Tanya Evans and Michael Ullman (read more...) |
"Because there is a high overlap between dyscalculia (math disability) and dyslexia, a better understanding of science of dyscalculia may inform useful strategies for teaching." Dyscalculia may coexist with dyslexia. |
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Fighting dyslexia with computer science | ||
see also:
https://www.2enewsletter.com/article_eides_stealth_dyslexia.html
http://www.davidsongifted.org/search-database/entry/a10435
https://www.3dlearner.com/uncategorized/stealth-dyslexia-not-typical-dyslexia/
Did you know? Giftedness is consider a learning disability. Alberta code for this is Code 80.
Is My Child Gifted?
Davidson Institute: A Place to Start: Is My Child Gifted?
National Association for Gifted Children: Is My Child Gifted?
Gifted Development Center: Is Your Child Gifted?
My little poppies: Parenting Gifted? Homeschooling.
Effects of Early Acceleration of Students in Mathematics on Mathematics Coursework (International Statistical Institute)
Tips for Parents: Academic Acceleration for Students in 8th Grade and Younger
The Unhappy Intellectually Gifted Child
Assessments - Psychological Services, Alberta
The first person to use the term gifted | Leta Hollingworth | ||
Personality-Shaping Through Positive Disintegration, by Kazimierz Dabrowski |
Watch the 1970 Dabrowski UAlberta Interviews on YouTube (6 videos) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhe1CudvJrBaZU7b71QiUrhkhNbtzjIXn |
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I Grew Up Gifted, But My Life Didn’t Turn Out The Way I Expected |
https://www.cbc.ca/parents/learning/view/i-grew-up-gifted-but-my-life-didnt-turn-out-the-way-i-expected | ||
The unique inner lives of gifted children - Linda Silverman |
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A Practical System for Identifying Gifted and Talented Students |
https://gifted.uconn.edu/schoolwide-enrichment-model/identifygt |
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Sponsored Content, Chemistry Enrichment |
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Sixteen things parents of gifted kids are sick of hearing (and what they’re thinking when they do) |
https://www.laughingatchaos.com/sixteen-things-parents-of-gifted-kids-are-sick-of-hearing-and-what-theyre-thinking-when-they-do | ||
Gifted Program vs. Attending Regular Streams: |
Podcast:
Cuts to gifted classes spark debate over value of program https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/cuts-to-gifted-classes-spark-debate-over-value-of-program-1.3836289 Congregated Gifted Program, Calgary Catholic School District https://www.cssd.ab.ca/Programs/ProgramSupports/DiverseLearning/DiverseLearningSupports/Documents/Congregated_Gifted_Brochure.pdf OCDSB vote on gifted program angers parents Social Sharing https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ocdsb-gifted-program-vote-1.4885101 |
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Pragmatic
Examination of Gifted Behavior: Giving students opportunity to be creative, improving motivation and working developing skills. Avoid loosing potential, and how to become a gifted learner. Create a library of "how to" books so you can find out that your student can master various skills. |
Research happening at the University of Connecticut: https://gifted.uconn.edu/funded-research/. See also Renzulli Learning for Talent Development. |
Before Referring a Gifted Child for ADD/ADHD Evaluation How to avoid a misdiagnosis when a child is young for his class |
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Uncomfortable Truths About the ADHD Nervous System |
Books to help children cope with loss and grief
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What to Do When I'm Gone A Mother's Wisdom to Her Daughter Hopkins, Suzy Graphic Novel - 2018 Hallie asked her mother, writer Suzy Hopkins, to record step-by-step instructions for her to follow in the event of her mom's death. The list began: "Pour yourself a stiff glass of whiskey and make some fajitas" and continued from there, walking Hallie through the days, months, and years of life after loss, with motherly guidance and support, addressing issues great and small--from choosing a life partner to baking a quiche. The project became a way for mother and daughter to connect with humor, openness, and gratitude. It led to this book. |
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Guidance to adults who are supporting children grieving an expected death or a death that has already occurred. | https://kidsgrief.ca/ | |||
Helping Grieving Children and Teenagers |
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How can you help a teen who is grieving? |
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How Teens Deal With Grief | ||||
Teens Talk Grief, Hospice Calgary Through the Children's Grief Centre, families with children aged 19 and under are supported as they adjust to the changes in their lives when someone close to them has died. Using individual, family counseling and group support, we work with children, teens, and their families to help them gain the tools they need to face grief. |
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Know the signs of Irlen Syndrome
Interview with Helen Irlen discovered Irlen Syndrome over 20 years ago (1h:10min):
Solutions to Irlen Syndrome: https://irlen.com/what-you-can-do/
see also: https://irlen.com/success-stories/
Irlen Syndrome Foundation: What the printed page looks like
https://www.irlensyndrome.org/what-is-irlen-syndrome/
WHO Q&A About Gaming Disorders
Center on Media and Child HealthCenter on Media and Child Health How do I know if my tween has “gaming disorder”? South Korea rehab camp for Internet-addicted teenagers Ask the doctor a media related question
ArticlesHow the Internet, Dopamine and your Brain are Working Together to Screw Your Potential (by Anthony W. Richardson) Click here for similar articles. Neural Basis of Video Gaming: A Systematic Review Risk-taking outside of the video game environment following game play
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Korea’s Internet Addicts The Neuroscience of Internet Addiction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjJYvLH_FGw |
Calgary Eating Disorder Program
Immediate effects on learning and a common misdiagnosis
"The “inability to focus and concentrate,” which is almost universally reported by our young patients and their observant parents, is a direct result of their eating disorders -- not a separate condition, such as attention deficit disorder.
Mistaking the poor concentration of semi-starvation for ADD or ADHD frequently leads to the prescription of stimulant medications which, unfortunately, can cause counter-productive appetite suppression. This highlights the critical importance of accurate diagnosis, which is greatly (though imperfectly) supported by the new DSM-5, and the critical importance of prompt, even aggressive, re-feeding."
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How Malnourishment Affects the Brain: Research on Anorexia and Neurobiology
For example, excessive weight loss can cause shrinkage of the brain’s gray matter.
Also, people underweight due to this eating disorder scored higher for depression, anxiety, and obsessiveness than those with anorexia who had restored weight. All of these symptoms, including loss of brain mass, improved with weight restoration.
Anorexia & Loss of Cognitive Ability
Library books that may help dealing with people who cause you anxiety:
Powerful Phrases for Dealing With Difficult People |
My Age of Anxiety |
Check out these digital books from the Calgary Public Library.
The app to use is OverDrive. Here is a short intro to how to use OverDrive: https://sharpseries.ca/res/res.html#OverDrive |
Five strategies for overcoming test anxiety.
Sometimes anxiety and stress is due to trauma, and can be very difficult to deal with.
Here is one approach: Choose the story you want to tell, change the past...
Articles
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/hide-and-seek/201210/coping-anxiety
University of Calgary:
What’s the difference between shyness and social anxiety? UCalgary experts on the inexact science of recognizing anxiety disorders in schools
Strategies For Parenting Kids Who Have Anxiety
Parents talk about 10 Early Signs of Autism
Maslow studied the healthiest 1% of the college student population. The largest, most fundamental needs at the bottom and the need for self-actualization and self-transcendence at the top. Maslow's theory suggests that the most basic level of needs must be met before the individual will strongly desire (or focus motivation upon) the secondary or higher level needs. Maslow also coined the term "metamotivation" to describe the motivation of people who go beyond the scope of the basic needs and strive for constant betterment. Read more... |
Helping Your Child or Teen Prepare Emotionally For Disasters or Emergencies
Responding to a Disaster or Emergency
Recovery after a Disaster or Emergency
Calgary: Getting prepared for emergencies (72-hour kit, Emergency action plan, Alerts and Notifications).
Reversing Type 2 Diabetes
How to end your sugar addiction.
Helping your Angry Teen, by Abblett, Mitch Check it out from the Calgary public library. |
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Davidson Institute:
Tips for Parents: Anger Management for Your Gifted Child |
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Russell Kolts; Anger, Compassion, and
What It Means To Be Strong: |
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Anger—How We Transfer Feelings of Guilt, Hurt, and Fear |
from Common Sense Education |
Family tips on cyber bullying, parent concerts and understanding online harassment. | ||
A list of TV Shows (K - 2) That Inspires Empathy |
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/lists/tv-that-inspires-empathy | ||
Safe Online Behavior |
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/cyberbullying/what-should-i-teach-my-kid-about-safe-online-behavior
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4 Ways to Help Teens Avoid Digital Harassment |
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/4-ways-to-help-teens-avoid-digital-harassment
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Childnet International, a non-profit organization working with others to help make the internet a great and safe place for children. |
https://www.childnet.com/
see also Playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/childnet/ |
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Internet
Safety Laws, Online Protection Tools, Parental Supervision of Online Activities
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https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/net-safety.html?fbclid=IwAR3eEqVKlh9Hc4xwmO0-ahYYOLSwWYkHgj1ppdH-3DcQfSo2mz4frAvuvXo | ||
Being Smart with Your Smartphone (designed for teachers) |
https://www.childnet.com/resources/being-smart-with-your-smartphone | ||
NetSmartz offers free, multimedia Internet safety presentations tailored for specific audiences — parents and communities, tweens, teens, and younger children.
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https://www.netsmartz.org/presentations?fbclid=IwAR1T-dwfa1Yl0UosCOpB3FIOL0jrVtQwGcP_r1iExzBZU7QwqoMKRIDK3Lw | ||
The Dangers of Online Gaming |
- How can I keep my child safe whilst they chat in
games? What tools are available to help?
- How do I know which games are appropriate or suitable for my child? - Do games have parental controls? - How can I report inappropriate behavior by other users? - How long should I let my child play games for? https://www.childnet.com/ufiles/Online-gaming-an-introduction-for-parents-and-carers-2017.pdf |
see also the general Bullying category.
This Rare Medical Condition Makes You Love Everyone | https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/williams-health-love-genetics-books/ | |
How to beat OCD without drugs |
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/think-well/201406/how-beat-ocd-without-drugs-its-simple-not-easy | |
Strategies for Treatment-Resistant OCD |
https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/strategies-treatment-resistant-ocd
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The Teenage
Brain |
CBC Podcast Teenagers can be erratic and emotional. Sullen one moment and ecstatic the next. All this could drive the most level headed parent or teacher to distraction. But recent science may just have the answer to the question of why teenagers are the way they are. And it's not just about hormones. This new understanding is changing the way some societies see teens and it may just lead to us to redraw the boundary between teenager and adult. Aired: Jan. 31, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/15758492-inside-the-teenage-brain-how-science-is-helping-us-understand-adolescents see also: Brain and Development Research Center https://brainanddevelopment.nl/ |
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