Additional Resources
Resources for Families:
- Teaching Emotions: Activity Ideas to Share with Families
- Help Us Calm Down- Strategies for Children
- Taking a Break: Using a Calm Down Area at Home
- Behaviour Expectations: Strategies and Poster
- Help Us Have a Good Day: Positive Strategies for Families Infographic
- Feeling Faces: Large Cards
- Helping Children Transition Between Activities
- Making Life Easier: Bedtime and Naptime
- Making Life Easier: Diapering
- Make the Most of Playtime
- Making Life easier: Going to the Doctor/Dentist
- Peer Mediated Skills
- Tucker the Turtle: Song & Finger Play
- Tucker the Turtle Technique: Cards
- Feeling Faces
- Feeling Wheel (English)
- Help Your Child Learn to Share
- How to Teach Your Child to Appropriately get Your Attention
- Self-Regulation Skills: Relaxation Thermometer
- Visual Supports for Routines, Schedules & Transitions
- Self-Regulation Skills: Breathing Strategies
- Solution Kit: Home Edition
- Problem Solving Steps: Wrist Cards
- Teaching Your Child to Co-operate with Requests
- Teaching Your Child About Feelings: Birth-Age 2
- Teaching Your Child to Become Independent with Daily Routines
- Helping Children Understand Emotions when Wearing Masks
- Teaching Rules at Home
- Emotional Piggy Bank
- How To Give Clear Instructions
- Help Us Have A Good Day
- Making a Scripted Story
Scripted Stories
*NEW SCRIPTED STORY* → Getting Dressed For Winter
- We Can Be Problem Solvers at Home (Scripted Story)
- We Can Be Problem Solvers! (Scripted Story)
- Tucker the Turtle: Story (Scripted Story)
- I Brush My Teeth (Scripted Story)
- I Clean Up My Toys (Scripted Story)
- Suri Spider Selects a Solution (Scripted Story)
- I Am a Super Friend (Scripted Story)
- Clean Up (Scripted Story- EXAMPLE)
- Trick or Treat for Halloween
Recommended Links
Nova Scotia Supports & Services:
Autism
https://www.autismnovascotia.ca/
https://www.autismnovascotia.ca/programs/quickstart-nova-scotia/
Hearing & Speech https://www.hearingandspeech.ca
Occupational Therapy & Physiotherapy https://www.iwk.nshealth.ca/childrens-health/services#/childrens-health/services/infant-preschool-rehabilitation-service (click on “Related Content” for resources)
IWK Health Centre www.iwk.nshealth.ca
Mental Health https://mha.nshealth.ca/en/services/child-and-adolescent-services
https://novascotia.cmha.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Resource-Guide-1.pdf
Family Resource Centres (provincial)
https://novascotia.ca/coms/families/prevention-and-early-intervention/family-resource-centres.html
SchoolsPlus –
Child Development:
Infant Development https://pathways.org
Developmental Milestones https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/milestones/
Milestones in Action Videos
View Videos
Early Child Development https://www.zerotothree.org/
Early Development Research
- https://developingchild.harvard.edu/
- Mount Saint Vincent University- Early Childhood Collaborative Research Centre
Language/Communication
https://www.hanen.org/Helpful-Info/Parent-Tips.aspx
Brain Story (English and French)
https://www.albertafamilywellness.org/training/
Mental Health Resources
- https://self-reg.ca/early-childhood/
- http://purplecrying.info/
- https://www.iwk.nshealth.ca/mmh
- https://challengingbehavior.org/
- Strongest Families Institute
Prematurity
https://www.cpbf-fbpc.org/education
National Organization for Rare Disorders https://rarediseases.org/
Down Syndrome
Hearing and Vision https://www.babyhearing.org/
Autism
General Resources:
French/Acadian:
- https://www.fpane.org/
- https://reseausantene.ca/
- https://www.immigrationfrancophonene.ca/
- https://capene.ca/services/services-aux-familles/la-pirouette
- https://hearingandspeech.ca/information-pour-les-patientsfamilles-et-leurs-intervenants
- ATINS – Home page
- Services offerts aux nouveaux arrivants – Canada.ca