Here you'll find resources created for teens aged 12-13 years.
Here you’ll find lots of useful films to support you and your family to better manage your Type 1 Diabetes. You could watch together with your family or on your own, and you can use them to show your friends, school or community to help raise awareness.
If you find these resources useful, ask your local diabetes team for a code to use the DigiBete App. Learn more about it by clicking here.
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What is Type 1 Diabetes? Animated Explainer
What is Type 1 Diabetes
Benji's Story: My Life with T1D
Benji is 13 years old and this is his T1D story in his own words.
Emma's Story
Meet Emma as she talks about living with type 1 diabetes.
Watch more diabetes stories from children and young people here.
The Goals of diabetes will teach you everything you need to know about diabetes for your age. Watch other teens explain all about diabetes and the things it is important to know.
View the Goals of Diabetes Resources here.
View the Annual Checks Resources here.
How to Manage a Mammoth
Join Jake, his Mum and Mel the diabetes mammoth as they join forces with their friends to become a super-team and work out how to shrink Mel to a manageable size.
How to Hold a Hedgehog
Join Aneesha, her family and Sid the diabetes hedgehog as they work out how to adapt to life with diabetes and calm down their worries.
Continuing your journey... the sailboat
Continuing your journey... the sailboat.
The 3 Emotion systems
The 3 emotion systems.
You are not alone
Be kind to your mind
It's not fair
It's too much
Arguments
Arguments.
Managing School
Managing School.
Top Tips for Hypoglycaemia (12-15)
Top Tips for Hyperglycaemia (12-15)
Top Tips for Exercise (12-15)
Top Tips for Exercise - 12-15
Top Tips for Talking about Type 1 Diabetes (12-15)
Top tips for talking about Type 1 Diabetes
Talking about type 1 diabetes (12-15)
Top Tips for Tech Failure (12-15)
Sick Day Rules
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