NCCAH, Exploring socially-responsive approaches to children’s rehabilitation

Gerlach, A. (2018) Exploring socially-responsive approaches to children’s rehabilitation with Indigenous communities, families, and children.
Prince George, BC. National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health.

Working towards ensuring that Indigenous children have the opportunities, developmental and health trajectories, and quality of life and well-being across their life course equitable to children in the wider population in Canada requires a critical examination of children’ rehabilitation.
Across Canada, the delivery of community-based children’s rehabilitation is primarily the domain of three distinct disciplines: occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, and physiotherapy. A central premise of the children’s rehabilitation is that sue to the neural plasticity of infants’ brains,, the earlier intervention for young children can start, the more beneficial they will be…

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