LINKS TO INFORMATION FOR PARENTS
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Adolescent Sleep Needs & Patterns

AIDS/HIV: Children with AIDS Project

American Academy of Pediatrics


Anger Management Resource: Get Your Angries Out
-healthy ways to release the 'mads'.

Association for Children of NJ


Asthma and Children

Asthma Tutorial for Children & Parents

Atlantic County Information
-click on 'Services & Programs'.

Attention Deficit Disorder (CH.A.D.D.)

AD / HD: Save One Starfish

Backpack Safety

Bullying: What parents and teachers should know
-click on Resources - then Teaching & Learning to find this title.

CDC Center for Disease Control

Children's Health Fund
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offers Health Basics plus Nutrition/Fitness Basics for Kids.

Colorblindness

Communicable Disease Fact Sheets

Communicable Disease Services of NJ

Crohn's Disease Site for Teens

DIABETES: Children with Diabetes.
-on-line community for kids, families and adults with diabetes.

DIABETES: JDF Kids Online
-site for kids provided by the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation

DIVORCE: Kids in the Middle


DIVORCE: What parents can do to help children with divorce

Down Syndrome: Health Issues

 

 

Dr. Reddy's Pediatric Office on the Web.
-Useful information and resources on children's health.

Drs4Kid.

-a web site that takes common medical topics concerning infants, children and
adolescents and presents them in such a way as to make them easier for a
parent to understand them.

Ears: Kids Ears

Ears: Otitis Media in Children

Ectodermal Dysplasia

Emergencies: Dealing with them at home

Epilepsy Foundation of America. 

Epipen How to Use
if above doesn't work use: EpiPen
-how to administer the emergency medication, Epipen.

Food Allergy Network


Grief: All Kids Grieve

Grief: Compassionate Friends

Grief: KidsAid

GRIEF: Fernside: A center for grieving children

Grief: Grieving Child


GRIEF: Pet loss


GRIEF: Teen Age Grief Inc.

Growth & Development: I Am Your Child
-early childhood development with resources for parents and care-givers.
Growth & Development: Kids Growth
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resource for parents and pediatric health professionals.
Growth & Development: Teen Growth
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focus on adolescent advocacy and health content.
Growth & Development: Zero to Three
-resource for parents & professionals on the first three years of life.

Handwashing: why it's important

Headlice:
National Pediculosis Association

Health Conditions: Multimedia Tutorials for Children & Parents
-asthma, cerebral palsy, chronic constipation & encopresis, gastroesophageal
reflux, cleft lip and palate. The asthma tutorial has audio breath sound files.


Healthy People 2010

-national prevention agenda.

Hemophilia Resource: Kelley Communications

Hepatitis Branch of CDC

Infections: common & not-so-common childhood infections

Inteli Health
-health information from John Hopkins.

Kids Health
-lots of information for parents, kids, and teens.

Kids Health for Parents: Medical Problems

KIDS: 'Around the Government' for Kids

KIDS: Coolsites for Kids

Learning Differences Resource


Medicines: RxList
-drug reference
Movies Online from BrainPOP: Health, Body Systems, Science & Technology


New Jersey State Department of Health

NJ Family Care

Poison Control Centers

 

Sickle Cell Information Center

Skin Conditions

Special Love
phone: 540-667-3774
Special Love offers sibling and family weekend getaways for teens with cancer.

Starbrignt Foundation
Free resources to empower seriously ill children to combat the medical and
emotional challenges they face on a daily basis.


Tourette's Syndrome Information

 

Writing: How Do you Make a Banana Split
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-Click on PreK - 12

 

 

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Brigantine North Middle School
Nurse pages authored by Noreen McGahn