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As the mom of a son who had severe asthma and a life-threatening immune condition, Sheila Jennings learned firsthand that it was impossible to work outside the home and tend to her child with complex health needs.
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Last year, several parents whose children had died came to Holland Bloorview staff with an idea: They wanted to hold an annual celebratio...
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'I make recommendations that I know realistically may not happen, and I don't know what to tell our families.'
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'They're the quarterback, talking to all the clinicians who are helping their child and chatting with other families in similar situations and bringing their personal experience.'
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'The client is recognized and acknowledged as the expert of their own lived experience...There's no giving advice.'
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'When I look at myself in the hospital as a clinician, all the things I think I do exceptionally well, my rarest gifts, they're all things I learned from her.'
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Last year Dutch journalist Anjet van Dijken published the Brothers and Sisters Book, a first in Holland for siblings of children with dis...
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'Everything was bottled up in our family and I modelled that. Everyone had masks on, to protect their emotions.'
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Dr. Shannon Scratch is the director of the NOvEL (Neurorehab Outcomes via Education and Learning) Lab, a Clinician Scientist and an Associate Professor (Paediatrics; Rehab Sciences, UofT). She is also a registered Clinical Neuropsychologist dedicated to developing interventions for youth with concussion or acquired brain injury and their families. Her clinical practice is in the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Team at Holland Bloorview, including Concussion Services.
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