by Halton Administrator | Mar 7, 2015 | Community Events, Research
Listen The Ministries of Children and Youth Services, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health and Long Term Care and Community and Social Services have asked the organizations in Halton Region who work with children with special needs to come together to plan two strategies: 1. Coordinated Service Planning 2. The Integrated Delivery of Rehabilitation Services. These new strategies will mark the beginning of a new way of delivering services to children and youth with special needs and their families. First steps of the Special Needs Strategy include: Identifying children’s needs earlier and getting them the right help sooner; A new developmental screen for preschool children has been developed that will help identify potential risks to children’s development and connect them with the services they need as early as possible. Coordinated family-centered service planning for children and youth with multiple and/or complex needs; Service planning coordinators will connect families to a range of services and supports and help the family to develop one coordinated service plan. An integrated approach to the delivery of rehabilitation services; Children and youth will receive seamless and effective speech language therapy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy services from birth through school exit. These services will be built around their goals for home, school and the community and be delivered in the way and in the place that meets the needs of the child and family. READ MORE HERE: Parent Engagement Communication FEB15 – final...
by Halton Administrator | Sep 4, 2014 | Research
Listen **** New Study of Fatty Acid Supplementation to Treat Youth with ADHD **** Study looks at the importance of Fatty Acid supplementation and the impact on attention disorders. Read more. To register and receive additional information click here....
by Halton Administrator | Jan 20, 2013 | Research
Listen Suggestions for Free Online Software Web Links for Free Digital Programs Description www.mothergooseclub.com/index.php Furnishes nursery rhymes with child actors who animate the poems. http://Udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/home Provides learning tools to enhance learning for all children. http://Bookbuilder.cast.org Enables users to create, share, publish and read digital books that engage young readers http://Bookshare.org Provides accessible books and periodicals for readers with print disabilities. www.signdstories.com/index.cfm Provides books that readers can view in sign language and with subtitles. Books are also in audio, and users can easily share them with friends and family. www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/storymaker/storymaker.swf Allows for creating, sharing, and publishing digital books for repeated readings and includes wonderful prompts to help children begin. www.naturalreaders.com/index.htm Provides application software that reads any text on a computer. www.wordtalk.org.uk/about/ Provides a text-to-speech plug-in for MS...
by Halton Administrator | Mar 8, 2012 | Research
Listen Read the article from Dr Guinevere Eden, DPhil, professor, Department of Pediatrics, and Director, Center for the Study of Learning (CSL) at Georgetown University. She is the co-author on this interesting research. Dr Eden will be speaking at LDAH’s upcoming Solutions for Learning Conference April 13th and will be sharing her insights about brain research and learning If you’d like to attend pls register as soon as possible to ensure your...
by Halton Administrator | Feb 4, 2012 | Research
Listen Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. Watch this video and let us know what you...
by Halton Administrator | Oct 19, 2011 | Research
Listen Most people never consider the complexity and difficulty of the writing process. In fact, relative to all other academic activities, writing requires more basic skills than perhaps any other. Even during their earliest handwriting exercises, children must combine complex physical and cognitive processes to render letters precisely and fluidly. As writing tasks become more difficult, students must call on an increasingly wide range of skills to not only write legibly, logically, and in an organized way but also to invoke rules of grammar and syntax. This combination of requirements makes writing the most complex and difficult use of language. Why Writing...
