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ea0027s13 | RCN CYP Diabetes Community Session | BSPED2011

Helping children to learn about and understand their illness: a quick look at theory and its application

Pritchard Alan

This short presentation will consider the fact that many adults underestimate children’s ability to understand many things – this works in two ways, sometimes children understand more, and sometimes less than we might imagine – and by doing so may cause upset and misunderstanding. In any case we will see that all of us, including children, try to make sense of our surroundings, of new information, and of what happens to us, and children, in particular, need a ce...