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Apr242013

CHW School-Link Newsletter

 

The April 2013 edition of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead’s School-Link newsletter (Volume 4, Issue 1) on mental health and intellectual and developmental disability in children and adolescents is now available here.

Highlights include: 

  • Better Health Services for People with Intellectual Disability in NSW by Associate Professor David Dossetor
  • Beyond the Walls of the Play Therapy Room Ageing, Disability and Home Care Play Therapy Team
  • Less Heat, More Warmth by Ian Luscombe
  • Getting Students Ready for Life after School by Nicole Ison
  • Every Student, Every School by Melissa Clements 
  • The Medicine Cabinet: Mood Stabilisers by Judy Longworth 
  • NSW Carer of the Year by Maria Heaton
  • Emotion Based Social Skills Training for Children with Autism Improves Children’s Emotion Skills by Dr Michelle Wong
  • Responsibilities and Rights for Consumers and their Carers and Advocates of People with an Intellectual disability to enable Equity of Access to Health Services in NSW by David Dossetor and the Models of Care Subcommittee of the NSW ACI Disability Network
  • Promoting Resilience by Jodie Caruana