A $6 million commitment from Wesfarmers to Telethon will fund vital research to reduce the impact of chronic ear infections and other serious diseases. ...

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• News & Events
• News & Events at Telethon Kids
• 2017
• October

Professor Andrew Whitehouse awarded the most prestigious award in the country for young researchers – the 3M Eureka Prize for Emerging Leader in Science. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• News & Events
• News & Events at Telethon Kids
• 2017
• August

High consumption of refined carbohydrate, in particular sugar, has been identified as a possible contributory factor in greater risk of excess weight gain. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2013
• July 2013

The aim was to characterise fetal brain growth in children with specific language impairment (SLI). A nested case-control study was set in Perth, WA. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2012
• January 2012

To describe the extent to which parents report that 4- to 17-year-olds with symptoms meeting Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2018
• February 2018

We examined the relationship between a maternal alcohol-use diagnosis, and the timing of diagnosis, and child protection outcomes in a Western Australian population cohort. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2017
• October 2017

This study investigated the associations between clusters of early life risk factors and developmental vulnerability in children's first year of full-time school at age 5 ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2020
• April 2020

This paper provides Australian population-level estimates of the prevalence of parental self-reported lifetime mental disorders and past 12 month mental disorders in their children ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2018
• August 2018

The prevalence of mental disorders in children and adolescents in Australia, and the severity and impact of those mental disorders ...

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• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2016
• September 2016

Delayed or impaired language development is a common developmental concern, yet there is little agreement about the criteria used to identify and classify... ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2016
• July 2016