A ground-breaking Telethon Kids Institute study, which revealed that almost every young person being held in the Banksia Hill Detention Centre had some form of neuro-disability, has sparked concern and conversation across Australia and the world. ...

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• 2018
• July

Youth with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) are under-recognised in the justice system, warranting improved identification. This study aimed to compare neuropsychological profiles of adolescents, with and without PAE and identify neuropsychological tasks predictive of PAE-group membership. It was hypothesised that participants with PAE would score significantly lower on neuropsychological tests. ...

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• 2024
• January 2024

Accurately assessing prenatal alcohol consumption is exceptionally challenging when assessed retrospectively as part of a FASD assessment for a young person sentenced to detention ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• February 2019

This study of young people in detention in Western Australia, has documented a high prevalence of FASD and severe neurodevelopmental impairment ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2018
• February 2018

Language diversity and the prevalence of language disorder associated with FASD among a representative sample of youth sentenced to detention in WA ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2018
• November 2018

Unmet language and literacy needs are common among young people who are involved with youth justice systems. However, there is limited research regarding the functional text-level language skills of this population with regard to narrative macrostructure (story grammar) and microstructure (semantics and syntax) elements. In this study, we examined macrostructure and microstructure elements in the oral and written narrative texts of 24 adolescent students of a youth detention centre. The students, who were aged 14- to 17- years, were all speakers of Standard Australian English, and 11 (46%) students met criteria for language disorder (LD). ...

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• 2021
• February 2021

To describe the health and well-being of children and young people (CYP) seeking asylum subjected to Australia's immigration policy of indefinite mandatory detention on Nauru. ...

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• 2023
• March 2023

This study aims to establish FASD prevalence among sentenced young people in detention in Western Australia (WA) ...

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• 2016
• June 2016

We report the findings from a qualitative study that took place alongside a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) prevalence study among detainees in Australia ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• November 2019

Language disorder is highly prevalent in youth justice; however, orofacial, oromotor, speech, and voice anomalies have been largely overlooked. There has been some documentation of these among individuals with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE), and adolescents with PAE are over-represented in youth justice. ...

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• 2021
• October 2021