How to Connect Families with Special Needs Support
Your CNC team’s support can play an essential role in connecting newcomer children with special needs and their families to life-changing support and early intervention.
Families are often more likely to talk to another professional if they are introduced by someone they know and trust; but haring concerns can still be challenging. Because your team already has the connection and relationship with the families, it’s important to learn about resources, supports and services that are available in your community and to develop connections.
Find out how in this tip sheet, which is available in
English and
French.
Providing Quality Newcomer Infant Care
The early years are a period of growth and opportunity for children, but they are also a time when children are most vulnerable to harm!
This tip sheet examines how to make health and safety your top priorities, support families with sensitivity and understanding, provide culturally-sensitive care, and value diverse parenting practices.
Multilingual Health A-Z
In order to better meet the needs of families and health professionals, Hospital for Sick Kids has translated some of their core information about child health and family quality of life into a number of languages.
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Help children learn through play
The Early Childhood Development Association of PEI has put together these beautiful resources on how children learn about the world around them and develop skills that will help them to grow and thrive.
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Helping You Meet the Requirements: Supporting Dual Language Learning
As an adult, you understand how speaking multiple languages can be an asset—both in the work force and in everyday life. That’s why it is so important for immigrant children to keep their mother tongues…and for you to integrate their languages, where possible, into your program.
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For Newcomer Parents with Teens
Most families leaving their home country and starting life in a new country feel sadness and grief mixed with a sense of hope and excitement about the future.
When families work together, they can support each other and achieve more than if they just work alone.
Talk to Your Baby – Multilingual Quick Tips
UK's National Literacy Trust, Talk To Your Baby has produced a series of quick tips for parents and practitioners to help children develop good talking and listening skills. Each sheet is available bilingually in thirteen languages.
Helping You Meet the Requirements: Supporting Newcomer Children With Special Needs
It is important to meet the needs of all children, but early intervention is particularly critical for a child with special needs. This article will explain how you can
support these families…and meet CNC requirements.
Let’s talk About the Early Years
Alberta Health and Wellness, Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health is asking: Are we doing the best we can to ensure positive futures for children? Our growing understanding of the early years in a child’s life provides us with an opportunity to re-think what we do to support healthy childhood development.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ON EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
Available in French, English, Spanish and Portugese,
this free online encyclopedia covers 47 topics related to the psychosocial development of the child, from conception to the age of five, and presents the most up-to-date scientific knowledge.
