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Creative learning & development: toddlers | Raising Children Network
Creative activities and creative play have big roles in toddler learning and development. Read how drama, music and art nurture imagination and thinking.
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Creative learning & development: preschool | Raising Children Network
Creative activities and creative play have big roles in preschooler learning and development. Read how drama, music, dance and art nurture imagination.
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Creative learning & development: 5-8 years | Raising Children Network
Creative activities and creative play have big roles in school-age learning and development. Read how drama, music, dance and art nurture imagination.
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How babies learn
Information on how children and babies learn, ideas to help your child play and learn, teaching them the essentials, plus links to trusted resources.
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Learning to walk
Your baby's first steps is one of the most exciting and memorable milestones in their development. Learn how you can help your baby learn to walk.
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Learning to crawl
Crawling is an important skill for your baby to learn and is a big milestone in their development. Your baby will crawl when they're ready, with their own unique style.
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Development milestones - your child at 5 years
Turning 5 is a time of new experiences and changes. Find out what development milestones should be reached by this stage and what are areas of concern.
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Your baby's growth and development - 10 months old
A 10-month-old will be very active. As a parent, you’ll probably be chasing them around as they crawl, and be learning more about their developing personality.
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How your baby learns - birth to 3 years
Find out how your baby learns and develops from birth to 3 years.
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Your baby's growth and development - 7 months old
Your 7-month-old baby is growing fast and may even be sitting up on their own and eating solid foods. Learn more here about how your baby is developing when they reach 7 months.
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Home Care - What I Can Learn
This section of the Home Care Toolkit provides an opportunity for you to evaluate your learning and development needs and create a personal learning plan.
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Residential Aged Care - What I Can Learn
This section of the RAC Toolkit provides opportunity for you to evaluate your learning and development needs and create a personal learning plan. Links are provided to online and other types of resources to help you improve your knowledge, skills and confidence in providing palliative care and advance care planning.
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Magnifying reading aids for children and teenagers with low vision | Cochrane
Low vision in children and teenagers not only affects reading, learning and education but is also thought to have a significant effect on a child's general development. Magnifying reading aids can assist a child or teenager to make the best use of the vision they have.
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Parent training support for intellectually disabled parents | Cochrane
Parents with intellectual or learning disabilities may need support to provide adequate care for their children and prevent problems that can arise in children's welfare or development. Parent training programmes may help them to learn the parenting skills they need.This review found three randomised controlled trials that met the inclusion criteria. The quality of the evidence in the studies is moderate to low. One study found improvement in mother-child interaction compared with the control group, whilst the second found improvement in safe home practices, recognition of child illness and safe use of medicines. The third study found improvement in child care and safety. More research is needed to assess the effects of these interventions before conclusions can be drawn.
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Using computers to self-manage type 2 diabetes | Cochrane
Diabetes is one of the commonest long-term medical conditions, affecting around 347 million adults worldwide. Around 90% of them have type 2 diabetes and are at significant risk of developing diabetes related complications such as strokes or heart attacks. Patient education programmes can reduce the risk of diabetes-related complications, but many people with type 2 diabetes have never attended structured education programmes to learn how to look after themselves (self-management). Better use of computers might be one way of helping more people learn about self-management.
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'Child Aware supervision eLearning course
About the 'Child Aware supervision' eLearning course for professionals. The training is specifically for supervisors to learn about strategies that promote child and family-sensitive practice.
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E-Learning Modules - FASD
Welcome to the e-learning modules for health professionals involved in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) diagnosis.
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Training health and social care professionals to work together effectively | Cochrane
Interprofessional education (IPE) is defined as an intervention where the members of more than one health or social care profession, or both, learn interactively together, for the explicit purpose of improving interprofessional collaboration or the health/well being of patients/clients, or both. This review evaluated the effectiveness of IPE compared to educational interventions in which different professional groups were learning separately from one another and IPE compared with interventions in which no IPE was offered to a comparison group. This review was restricted to studies that measured patient outcomes or healthcare processes.This excluded qualitative studies and quantitative studies that reported on the impact that IPE can have on participants' attitudes, knowledge and skills of collaboration.This does not imply that qualitative studies and those focused on attitudes, knowledge and skills do not offer useful insights for certain purposes; simply that they are not the focus of this review.
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Professional training | Vision Initiative
List of training on eye health and vision care available for health professionals
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Instruments for assessing readiness to commence suck feeds in preterm infants | Cochrane
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