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Ottawa, ON – It has become apparent that spousal abuse/violence in the home has increased during the current pandemic. What is not generally known is that there has also been an increased incidence of challenging behaviours, including aggression towards other family members in families that include those with neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDD). [...]

Kids Brain Health Network Strategic Investment Fund 2021 Request for Applications

Throughout the pandemic, families and children living with disabilities have faced extra challenges. Many have lost essential services such as respite, and others have had difficulty accessing COVID-related information, all of which have caused great distress and potentially caused or exacerbated mental health challenges in this population. A project led by Kids Brain Health [...]

Network-Analysis Project Aims to Accelerate Knowledge Translation On March 3, Dr. Stephanie Glegg (a KBHN researcher ) with Dr. Kristy Wittmeir  were awarded an Institute Priority Announcement bridge grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.  Their project will map and characterize the current state of the connections within child development and rehabilitation (CD&R). [...]

Congratulations to Dr. Stelios Georgiades for his new role as inaugural Chair of the McMaster Children’s Hospital Chair in Autism and Neurodevelopment. Georgiades, is involved in several KBHN research projects and also who serves on the KBHN Research Training Committee. His new position represents a partnership between McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences with [...]

Ten years ago, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) developed a Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR). One of the foundations of SPOR is patient engagement, which is defined as “meaningful and active collaboration in governance, priority setting, conducting research and knowledge translation.”[1] This blog will explore Family Engagement in Research (FER). More specifically, [...]

Parents who’ve recently learned that their young child has a disability often don’t feel prepared to meet the challenges ahead. This is part of why investigators at McMaster University’s CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research have been developing a series of online workshops called ENVISAGE: ENabling VISions And Growing Expectations. Co-designed by researchers and [...]

When Dr. Keiko Shikako-Thomas was a high school student in Brazil, she volunteered for the Special Olympics. “I just fell in love [with the children],” she recalls. “I saw how they were thriving there, and I was like, ‘That is so cool.’” This experience, combined with a stint as a music teacher, set the [...]