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Check out the return of this great podcast from the Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation, this time featuring our own Dr. Anthony Levinson.

Day 1: Life After a Dementia Diagnosis - Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation Drs. Allison Sekuler and Rosanne Aleong welcome Jim Mann, Dr. Anthony Levinson (iGeriCare), and Robin Mitchell (Baycrest) as they explore the impact of a dementia diagnosis on clients and their families in those first/early days. Our guests will walk us through the common emotions and challenges tha...

McMaster’s enhanced 18-month well-baby visit planner is a great tool for parents to use prior to their child’s enhanced 18-month well-baby visit.

The visit planner covers multiple areas of development and provides helpful sample questions for parents to consider for each of the different topics. The tool allows parents to prioritize the areas of their child’s development that they feel are the most important for discussion. The visit planner is available for free online and as a printable version.

Learn more about the enhanced 18-month well-baby visit planner: https://buff.ly/3Byppua

Play&Learn is a convenient and easy-to-use platform that you can use to help support your child’s development.

So, what is Play&Learn?

Play&Learn is a free resource created by experts in child development at McMaster and the University of Toronto.

On the Play&Learn website, you can find a variety of games and activities that you may complete with your child. Activities are separated based on age (toddler, preschool, and kindergarten) and are further split up into 4 domains of child development; thinking and learning, social and emotional, movement, and language.

Check out the Play&Learn website here: https://buff.ly/3Q1eRbs