Getting the Support Your Child Needs

During school years, children learn a great deal about themselves and, like other children, will: Build new relationships. Be invited to join in on new activities and outings – educational day-trips, birthday parties and sleep-overs. Develop new skills. Test new physical and behavioural limits.

School is a place where you and your child can set the example with a positive and accepting attitude toward your child’s hemophilia. Letting other children know about why crutches can rest a joint, or why days off of school for rest can help with recovery from a bleed, for example, will help your child be accepted and supported.

Summer Camp

It is important and fun for children with hemophilia to have the chance to “get away from it all” in a supervised environment with people who understand their condition.