Understanding Families’ Experiences: Why a Diagnosis Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story
In the early 2000s, Sharon McCarry was a globe-trotting Fortune-500 marketing director working ten to 12 hours a day. When her second child, Colm, started [...]
The Clocks are About to Change: Just the Right Time for a Sleep Show on Facebook Live
Shifting the clock back and forth in the fall and spring can cause havoc in households with young children. But sleep issues for up to [...]
Seeking Expressions of Interest for the Post of KBHN Chief Scientific Officer
Kids Brain Health Network is recruiting for the post of Chief Scientific Officer. We have launched a search committee, and are contacting partners and individuals [...]
Celebrating the Canadian Cerebral Palsy Registry and its Role on World CP Day
The Canadian CP Registry helped forge an alliance among cerebral palsy researchers across the country, and supports new insights and understandings of the most common [...]
Transforming Treatment of Children with Cerebral Palsy by Focusing on their Abilities
Dr. Verónica Schiariti is championing the use of an online tool to promote care for children and youth with cerebral palsy (CP) that emphasizes their [...]
Multiple Barriers Face Francophones with FASD in Ontario
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) resources are a lifeline for families raising children with the neurodisability. But many Francophone families are cut off, simply because [...]
Crisis in Care: The Discussion on Transitions for Youth with Disabilities is Far from Over
As young people with disabilities head towards adulthood, they find themselves cut off from familiar health services only to fall through the cracks of a fragmented [...]
Sharing a Perspective Only a Mother Can Bring to the UN CRPD
Hi, my name is Rachel Martens, a 38 year-old mom of one from Calgary, Alberta, Canada with many hats to wear. I teach crochet, study [...]
Eye-tracking technology trial offers hope for earlier, cheaper diagnosis of FASD
"I had battled for years to try and find someone who could understand what was going wrong," Sam Pinnell told ABC News AM in Australia [...]
Children with Disabilities Need Better Access to Sport
Following the June release of the 2018 ParticipACTION Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth, Kids Brain Health Researchers began collaborating on an [...]
Adding Experience to Expertise – How Parents can Impact the Relevance of Research
Parents of children with disabilities are stepping up to take a powerful role in shaping relevant, impactful research. Their greatest asset: their own personal, lived [...]
Dr. James Reynolds Appointed Interim Chief Scientific Officer of Kids Brain Health Network
Dr. James Reynolds, Professor of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, and Associate Dean in the School of Graduate Studies at Queen’s, has been appointed as the [...]
