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Supporting children with Dysautonomia

• Dysautonomia Support Network https://www.dysautonomiasupport.org/handbooks/ 

Supporting children with POTS

• https://www.standinguptopots.org/livingwithpots/school 

Supporting children with ME/CFS

• Bateman Horn Centre https://batemanhornecenter.org/education/me-cfs/ 

• UNREST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOpyLTyVxco  

Supporting kids with Long Covid

• Long Covid Families https://longcovidfamilies.org/schools-and-accommodations 

• Long Covid Kids: Educational Toolkit https://www.longcovidkids.org/educational-toolkit 

• Long Covid Kids: Pacing Penguins https://www.longcovidkids.org/post/pacing-penguins-supporting-kids-living-with-long-covid-to-manage-their-energy 

• Long Covid Kids: Cautious Tortoise https://www.longcovidkids.org/post/long-covid-recovery-for-children-cautious-tortoise 

• Long COVID Physio https://longcovid.physio/long-covid-video-series

• Dr. Rick Arseneau on ME TV: Long COVID, ME/CFS, & Fibromyalgia in Children and Teens https://youtu.be/dpI24ZhY57M?si=ZIcM6cr5edSL8FNV

Supporting children with MCAS

• https://www.mastcellaction.org/resources 

Supporting children with PANS/PANDAS

• PANDAS Network https://pandasnetwork.org/resources/educator-resources/ 

• My Kid is Not Crazy: a search for hope in the face of misdiagnosis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJQT9-cQwIw   

• Stolen Childhood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cprp-zhkDCM 

Supporting children with Migraines

• https://migrainecanada.org/school-camp/#tools 

Supporting children with Cognitive Dysfunction

•  Understood https://www.understood.org/en/articles/classroom-accommodations-executive-function-challenges 

•  Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-reality-gen-z/202109/10-essential-classroom-accommodations-adhd?eml  

Prevention

• Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers Inc: Occupational Illness https://www.ohcow.on.ca/occupational-illness/ 

• Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE): Safer Indoor Air    https://ospe.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Safer_Indoor_Air_Nov22_Final.pdf 

• It's Airborne: School Resources https://itsairborne.com/all?topic=school-resources 

• Canadian Aerosol Transmission Coalition Mask Smart Presentations https://www.aerosoltransmissioncoalition.ca/presentations 

NEWS MEDIA

• Teacher Plus: A new discourse about disability https://teacherplus.org/2023/2023/march-2023/a-new-discourse-about-disability/ 

• Headteacher Update: Exhausting, painful, lonely: The impact of Long Covid on children https://www.headteacher-update.com/content/best-practice/exhausting-painful-lonely-the-impact-of-long-covid-on-children

• Scientific American: Long COVID Is Harming Too Many Kids https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/long-covid-is-harming-too-many-kids/?s=03

• University of Oxford: COVID-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people in the US https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-01-31-covid-19-leading-cause-death-children-and-young-people-us 

• Headteacher Update: PANS and PANDAS: Supporting affected pupils https://www.headteacher-update.com/content/best-practice/pans-pandas-supporting-affected-pupils

• Canadian Teacher: Partnerships that Support Children with Chronic Diseases https://canadianteachermagazine.com/2018/09/14/partnerships-that-support-children-with-chronic-diseases/

• Alberta’s Education Crisis is Also a Health Crisis, And It’s Putting Kids at Risk https://longcovidresourcescanada.ca/albertas-education-crisis-is-also-a-health-crisis-and-its-putting-kids-at-lifelong-risk/

• TVO Today: Breathing room: Why parents and experts are calling for a clean-air revolution in schools https://www.tvo.org/article/breathing-room-why-parents-and-experts-are-calling-for-a-clean-air-revolution-in-schools