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English Handbook Index
- Finding out what’s wrong
- Checklists for parents and professionals
- What is childhood arthritis?
- Who gets arthritis in childhood?
- History of childhood arthritis
- Who’s who in health services
- Checklist for parents at appointments
- Principles of treatment
- Children and Pain
- One child's description of pain
- Very young children and pain
- Pain and startegies to manage pain
- Medicines and tips for parents
- Prescribed medication
- Food and food supplements
- Food Supplements
- Why exercise?
- Key elements for an achievable home exercise routine
- How to do the exercises
- Mobility issues
- Shoes and footwear
- Splinting
- Positive Daily Living
- Sleeping
- Playing, learning and education
- Dressing, eating, using the toilet
- Finding the right school
- What should you expect from the school?
- Parents' tips for requesting extra help in school
- Common problems in schools
- Getting ready for secondary school (eleven to eighteen year olds)
- Money matters
- Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
- Carers allowance and other sources of financial help
- Parents' experiences
- Introduction to recent research about families
- Grandparents
- Ideas about how fit relatives and friends could help
- Brothers and sisters
- Siblings coping with sister’s ‘treatments’
- Experiences of children with arthritis
- Playing and learning at home
- Living with difference and pain
- Depression and problems with friends
- Problems at puberty
- Looking ahead
- Checklist of positive ways to help your child
- Transition issues at school
- Checklist for planning meetings
- Needing major adaptations in the home?
- Help understanding juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Help with play and daily living
- Help with the law, benefits and education
- Specialist legal, benefits and education advice organisations (across UK)
- General Organisations for families of ill or disabled children (UK wide)
- Help in Scotland
- Help in Northern Ireland
- Help in Wales
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