Teaching Children with Life-Limiting Illnesses

Teaching Children with Life-Limiting Illnesses

This book is a teacher resource written by the Department of Paediatric Palliative Care at the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network. It is intended to be a guide for teachers and the school community to help support children who have limited capacity to attend school due to a life limiting illness.

Topics covered include:

• common illnesses
• how to get the most out of a child’s time at school
• communicating difficult topics
• dealing with death and bereavement

Audience: Parents
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Date published:  2010
Publisher: The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network - Westmead
Country of publication:  Australia