Thinking of You This Holiday Season... We are approaching the end of an unprecedented year. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers, community agencies, children with neurodevelopmental disabilities, and their families have faced increased difficulties researching, delivering, and accessing supports from a home base. Despite these challenges, the Kids Brain Health Network (KBHN) made [...]
September 23-26, 2020, marked the 74th American Academy of Cerebral Palsy & Developmental Medicine’s (AACPDM) Annual Meeting. An infographic checklist that helps guide families through the research process took home the Best Demonstration Poster Award as voted by attendees. Heather Shearer and Kristina McGuire created the infographic as part of a Kid’s Brain Health [...]
Congratulations to Laura Hillier, a member of the Kids Brain Health Network Research Management Committee (KBHN RMC), for her new role as Director, Population and Public Health Evidence and Evaluation with the Government of Yukon. Equipped with a Masters in Epidemiology, Hillier has spent her career coordinating and evaluating health-based projects. For the last eight [...]
Dr. Brian Goldman, the host of this year’s Kids Brain Health Network conference, will be welcoming Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion, The Hon. Carla Qualtrough, independent Senators Hon. Rosemary Moodie, Hon. Jim Munson and The Hon. Colin Deacon, and Conservative MP, The Hon. Mike Lake to the virtual stage during the KBHN [...]
Dr. Cindy Blackstock OC FRSC—who has been described as Canada’s “relentless moral voice” for First Nations equality—will present at the Kids Brain Health Network virtual conference in November. Dr. Blackstock will focus her talk on the systemic racism First Nations people currently experience in North America as an opportunity to draw peoples’ attention to the [...]
When participants log into Kids Brain Health Network’s first-ever virtual conference in November, they’ll hear a familiar voice: that of Dr. Brian Goldman, host of White Coat, Black Art, the CBC’s long-running, popular radio series about the world of medicine. Besides being one of Canada’s top medical-science communicators, Dr. Goldman is also an experienced [...]
Kids Brain Health Network (KBHN) has always had a rich and diverse Board of Directors. Each member is rich in experience and has an active interest in helping Kids Brain Health realize its vision of developing and implementing potential solutions for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and their families. It is with immense gratitude and appreciation [...]
Since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and their families have faced unprecedented challenges in accessing supports from a home base. Navigating this new normal has called for new ways of delivering services and supports. To fast-track solutions, Mitacs and Kids Brain Health Network [...]
A team from the University of Alberta is attempting to improve the life outcomes of families affected by Neurodevelopmental Disorders by developing a chatbot. The verification of engagement strategies used in the Chatbot is critical to improving families’ experiences with the application. What the participants will do? The focus group is a one-time 45-60 minute [...]
Fifteen-year-old Torontonian Madhavan Thevar has always been interested in expressing himself and helping other young people to do the same. As a third-grader, he edited and disseminated a magazine featuring hand-written stories, opinions and journalism from himself and other children. He noticed that some children's’ voices aren’t as often heard. This realization began nearly [...]
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