There is controversy over whether increased breast-feeding duration has long-term benefits for language development. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2011
• January 2011

Causal theories propose that functional asymmetry is an obligatory pattern of organisation, while statistical theories maintain this is a reflection... ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2009
• July 2009

Autism is a disorder characterized by a core impairment in social behaviour. A prominent component of this social deficit is poor orienting to speech. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2008
• July 2008

This article tests the hypothesis that individuals with autism poorly encode verbal information to the semantic level of processing, instead paying greater... ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2007
• May 2007

When pictures and words are presented serially in an explicit memory task, recall of the pictures is superior. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2006
• November 2006

Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are increasingly utilised within healthcare settings to enhance decision making. However, few studies have investigated their application in the context of clinical services for autistic people, with no research to date exploring the perspectives of the key stakeholders who are, or in the future may be, impacted by their use. ...

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• 2024
• July 2024

Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) contributes to widespread neurodevelopmental challenges, including reading, and has been associated with altered white matter. Here, we aimed to investigate whether arcuate fasciculus development is associated with pre-reading language skills in young children with PAE. ...

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• 2023
• Jun 2023

The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of children's autism characteristics, sensory profiles and feeding difficulties on caregiver-reported impact at mealtimes. ...

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• 2024
• January 2024

While theory supports bidirectional effects between caregiver sensitivity and language use, and infant language acquisition-both caregiver-to-infant and also infant-to-caregiver effects-empirical research has chiefly explored the former unidirectional path. In the context of infants showing early signs of autism, we investigated prospective bidirectional associations with 6-min free-play interaction samples collected for 103 caregivers and their infants (mean age 12-months; and followed up 6-months later). ...

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• 2022
• December 2022

Past research has highlighted the importance of early identification of developmental differences to improve targeted access to early interventions or supports. As such, it is of particular importance in the context of children at elevated likelihood of autism (such as where an older sibling has a diagnosis of autism), to better understand when and which early concerns are important as predictors of which children will benefit from pre-diagnostic supports. ...

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• 2024
• April 2024