In all six countries, child development scores increased with age and urban children consistently performed better than rural children ...

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• 2019
• February 2019

A Quinns Rocks family who became the 1000th family to sign up for the ORIGINS Project is excited to be contributing to such ground-breaking research. ...

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• 2018
• July

New research by the Telethon Kids Institute has found children who attend playgroups achieve better early primary school outcomes. ...

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• 2017
• March

Engagement with preschool programs in Australia may present a plausible, equitable, and modifiable approach to improving children's developmental outcomes ...

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• 2016
• April 2016

Further research is required to identify the optimal age, content and length of mindfulness programs for adolescents in universal prevention settings. ...

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• 2017
• September 2017

This article examines the relationship between preschool quality and children’s early development in a sample of over 7900 children enrolled in 578 preschools in rural Indonesia. ...

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• 2017
• January 2017

We used data from a large Australian population to determine the independent and moderating effects of maltreatment and parental SSDs on early childhood. ...

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• 2017
• December 2017

This project analysed AEDC results across Australia, to identify communities with significant improvement (decreases in developmental vulnerability) between 2009 and 2012 ...

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• 2016
• January 2016

This paper describes the Australian Early Development Index, a developmental census conducted by the Australian Government across the entire population of... ...

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• 2014
• April 2014

Socio-environmental factors, including the neighbourhoods in which children live and grow, are key determinants of children's developmental outcomes. ...

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• 2014
• February 2014