Educational Materials provide information about a topic in children's rehabilitation (such as family-centred service or developmental coordination disorder) and practical strategies for using this information. Most of the Educational Materials on CanChild's website have been written for parents and service providers. These materials can help you learn more about a specific topic and can also be used as handouts for sharing information with others. The following is a list of Educational Materials available on our website.
Backward Chaining: A Dressing Workbook for Parents
Clinical Measurement Guidelines
Critical Review Forms & Guidelines
Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) Materials
Family-Centred Service (FCS) Sheets
Family Resource Guidebook for Direct Funding
Guidelines on Authorship
Backward Chaining: A Dressing Workbook for Parents
L Turner, B Lammi, K Friesen, N Phelan
This dressing workbook is a helpful tool that clinicians can provide to parents and/or caregivers. It is a step-by-step guide on how to teach children dressing skills.
Related themes: Backward Chaining; Behaviour Therapy; Caregiver/Caregiving; Dressing; Family-centred Service; Functional Ability; Functional Therapy; Intervention; Life Experiences of Children with Disabilities and their Families; Occupational Performance; Occupational Therapy; Parents; Quality of Life
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Clinical Measurement: Practical Guidelines for Service ProvidersSteven Hanna, Dianne Russell, Doreen Bartlett, Marilyn Kertoy, Peter Rosenbaum, Marilyn Swinton
These guidelines provide practical ideas to ensure measurements conducted by clinicians are clinically useful and accurate. Strategies to modify measures and interpret change in scores are provided. Measurement terms are explained in clear language.
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Critical Review Forms and Guidelines
CanChild researchers are part of a team who have developed forms and guidelines for conducting critical reviews of outcome measures and journal articles. The guidelines provide instructions for completing the forms, as well as definitions of terms commonly used in evidence-based practice. Click on the links below to download the documents free of charge.
The McMaster Occupational Therapy Evidence-Based Practice group acknowledges Mariela Nabergoi (OT, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) for providing the Spanish versions of the review forms and guidelines, Heidrun Becker (Georg Thieme Verlag, Berlin, Germany) for providing the German versions, Marisa Mancini (OT Professor, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) for providing the Portuguese versions, and Dr. Craig Scanlan (University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ) for providing an adapted Word version of the English quantitative review form.
Outcome Measures Rating Form and Guidelines
Quantitative Research Articles - Review Form
Quantitative Research Articles - Review Guidelines
Qualitative Research Articles - Review Forms (Version 2)
Qualitative Research Articles - Review Guidelines (Version 2)
Family Resource Guidebook for Direct Funding
Author(s): The Hamilton Family Network & CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research, McMaster University
Individualized funding (IF) is money awarded to an individual or group of individuals who are then given control of budgets, supports and services organized to meet their individual needs. Individualized funding increases choice and control for people with disabilities and their families. It also focuses on building personal support networks and increasing typical community participation.
The purpose of this manual is to provide information and resources to assist individual families and family networks who are planning to apply and manage individualized funding. The information in this manual is based on the experiences of a group of families connected with the Hamilton Family Network (HFN). The 10 families have youth with developmental disabilities and they were successful in securing individualized funding through the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services (MCSS) in 2001.
The authors recognize that there are other types of direct funding available through other sources. Readers planning to access funding are encouraged to explore the requirements and expectations of those applications. However, it is anticipated that information in this manual will be helpful regardless of the funding source.
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Guidelines on Authorship of Abstracts, Presentations and Papers Russell, D., Bourbonniere, M.To provide a clear understanding of what constitutes 'authorship' and the order in which authors should be recorded. To ensure that those staff, students and research collaborators who participate in research activities with CanChild are acknowledged and their contributions are fairly and appropriately represented. To develop a guideline which is CanChild-wide and which is flexible enough to accommodate variations inherent in publication patterns across different research projects, meeting presentations and across different journals. This document is to be used in conjunction with the following
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Related themes: Information Dissemination, Research Transfer, Authorship