Patient and Family Education

We want you to have all the information you and your child need to understand your child’s condition and to participate in treatment. This page provides links to resources that we hope will be helpful.

Resources at Seattle Children’s

• For Patients and Families
• Seattle Children’s Family Resource Center
• Support Groups
• Billing and Financial Assistance

Treatment-Specific Resources

• Animal Yoga Poses for Young Children (PDF) (Spanish)
• Arthrogryposis (PDF) (Spanish)
• Constraint-Induced Therapy (PDF) (Spanish)
• Delirium in the Hospital (PDF) (Dari) (Simplified Chinese) (Somali)  (Spanish) (Vietnamese)
• Digistrip Silicone Finger Sleeve (PDF) (Spanish)
• Early Mobility in the ICU (PDF) (Dari) (Simplified Chinese) (Somali)(Spanish) (Vietnamese)
• Exercise and Dermatomyositis (PDF) (Spanish)
• Exercise and Sickle Cell Disease (PDF) (Spanish)
• Exercise for Health and Wellness (PDF) (Spanish)
• Gastroesophageal Reflux: Helping Your Baby (PDF) (Spanish)
• Growing Up With A Brachial Plexus Palsy (PDF) (Spanish)
• Hand Manipulation Skills (PDF) (Spanish)
• Head Turning and Resting Preference in Babies (PDF)
• How to Move Your Child in a Hip Spica Cast with a Trapeze (PDF) (Spanish)
• How to Prepare for CIT (PDF) (Spanish)
• Idiopathic Toe Walking (PDF) (Spanish)
• Introducing New Foods to Your Child (PDF) (Spanish)
• My Hospital Stay Journal (PDF) (Dari) (Simplified Chinese) (Spanish) (Vietnamese)
• Modified Constraint Induced Therapy (mCIT) Family Contract (PDF) (Spanish)
• Night and Resting Ankle and Foot Brace (PDF) (Spanish)
• Occupational and Physical Therapy After Bone Tumor Orthopedic Surgery (PDF) (Spanish)
• Occupational and Physical Therapy After Neurological Spinal Fusion (PDF) (Spanish)
• Occupational and Physical Therapy in the Cancer and Blood Disorders Center and Unit (PDF) (Spanish)
• Physical and Occupational Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease (PDF) (French) (Spanish)
• Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) (PDF) (Dari) (Simplified Chinese) (Somali) (Spanish) (Vietnamese)
• Sensory Processing Challenges (SPC) (PDF) (Spanish) 
• Serial Casting for Ankle (PDF) (Spanish)
• Serial Casting for the Elbow (PDF) (Spanish)
• Self-Care after LVAD Placement (PDF)
• Showering with Your LVAD (PDF)
• Sensory Processing Challenges (SPC) Beginning Strategies: Ideas for Changes at Home (PDF) (Spanish) 
• Sensory Processing Challenges (SPC) Intermediate Strategies: Ideas for Changes at Home (PDF) (Spanish) 
• Sensory Processing Challenges (SPC) Advanced strategies: Ideas for changes at home (PDF) (Spanish) 
• Technology to Help With Fitness and Activity (PDF) (Spanish)
• Tendon Gliding Exercises (PDF) (Spanish)
• Theraputty Exercises for Hand and Fingers (PDF) (Spanish)
• Theraputty Fun Shapes (PDF) (Spanish)
• Torticollis (PDF) (Simplified Chinese) (Spanish)
• Tracking Modified Constraint Induced Therapy (mCIT) Activities at Home (PDF)
• Tummy Time (PDF)
• Use of a Gait Belt (PDF) (Spanish)
• Using Crutches (PDF) (Spanish)
• Using Your Tracheostomy Prone Positioner (PDF) (Spanish)
• What to Say to Someone Who Asks About Your Cast (PDF) (Spanish)
• Yoga for Older Kids (PDF) (Spanish)

Support Groups and Community Resources

• Adapted Driving and Driving Rehabilitation Programs: Information and Resources (PDF)
• Adaptive Sports and Recreation directory (PDF)
• Funding Resources for Adaptive Cycles (PDF) (Spanish)
• List of support groups at Seattle Children’s