Whether you’re looking for ideas to encourage your child to dress themselves or to hold their pencil, check out the links below for ideas to keep the learning fun and dynamic.
Fine and Gross Motor Development
- Practical Strategies for Fine Motor Skills – See “School-Age Motor Fun” – Connect Ability
- Tips for Modifying Motor Tasks – CanChild
- Gross Motor Skills – Kid Sense
- To Write or to Type – That is the question? – CanChild
- Coordination Difficulties and Developmental Coordination Disorder – Kid Sense
- Tips for Modifying Motor Tasks – CanChild
Toileting
- Steps Towards Toileting Independence – Connect Ability
- Toileting Training – About Kids Health
- Toileting Training Sequence – Visual – Connect Ability
Sleep
Sleep Issues
- Sleep Strategies for Your Child – Sunnybrook Neonatal Follow-Up Clinic
- Sleep Topics – National Sleep Foundation
- A Guide to Sleep Issues – Boys Town
- Prevention and Treatment of Children’s Insomnia (PDF)
Reading
Electronics
Getting Ready in the Mornings!
Back to School Checklist – Boys Town
Dressing
- Getting Dressed – Connect Ability
- Dressing Skills – CanChild
- Child Friendly Clothing – Connect Ability
- Planning Your Child’s Kindergarten Wardrobe – CanChild – Chart at bottom of the page
- Winter Dressing Sequence – Connect Ability
Brushing Teeth
Managing Behaviour
- Understanding Problem Behaviour from a Functional Behavioural Perspective
- 10 Laws for Parenting Happier, Healthier, Better Behaved Children by Dr. Patrick Friman – Arizona Autism United
- Preparing for Transitions – Connect Ability
- Creating Rules that Work – Connect Ability
- Anger Management in Young Children – About Kids Health
- Building Social Skills – Connect Ability
- Time Outs Guidelines for Parents – Boys Town
- Effectively Using Time Outs for Children – Boys Town
- Getting Kids To Do What They Are Told – Boys Town
Additional Resources:
- Caring for Kids – Information for parents from Canada’s paediatricians
- Connect Ability – Self-directed access to resources and an online connection to a community supporting kids and families with a variety of needs.
- Early Abilities – Review of government funded programs for early intervention (City of Toronto Speech, Language, Vision, and Hearing)
- Just in Time Parenting – Free monthly parenting newsletters by specific age and need
- EarlyON – Ontario’s Child and Family Centres (formerly Ontario Early Years Centres and Parenting and Family Literacy Centres) – Free, drop-in community programs for parents and caregivers and kids up to age 6.
- Triple “P” Parenting – Evidence-based positive parenting program for parents with kids of all ages.
- Zero to Three – Resources for 0-3 years.
- Autism Spectrum Disorder – Tips and toolkits for parents of children with autism.
- Autism Speaks – Tools for parents on a variety of useful topics such as toileting, feeding, etc.