THE BRIEF – Creating Sustainable Futures
No one would dispute the statement that healthcare and education are in trouble. Since the infiltration of screen-based technologies into every home, school, community and workplace setting, indicators for health, wellbeing and performance have plummeted. The ways in which we are raising and educating children with screens are no longer sustainable.
Screen Overuse – Causal links to physical and mental illness inflate health care costs
Below letter was authored by pediatric occupational therapist Cris Rowan and emailed to all Canadian Health Ministers and British Columbia Health Authorities on July 28, ‘25.
Understanding proprioceptive and vestibular systems to optimize student attention and learning.
At this point in time, ALL screen use in homes and schools should be considered detrimental to child and youth development, behavior and learning.
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As a pediatric occupational therapist working in schools on the Sunshine Coast, I detected a rise in child developmental delays, mental health disorders and learning disabilities over 30 years ago.
Children with Addictions – Let’s pull our heads out of the sand and do something!
For the first time in the history of humankind, we have children with addictions. While children’s primary addiction is to screens (cell phones, tablets, TV, computers etc.