Telethon Kids Institute has welcomed the establishment of an expert committee to guide decision-making around Aboriginal health and medical research in Western Australia. ...

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Following a youth community forum held in March 2016, the Telethon Kids Institute established the first Youth Advisory Group to ensure that the research conducted about young people at the Institute, is influenced by young people. ...

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Pacific youth (15–24 years) experience multiple challenges to realising their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Climate-related disasters compound pre-existing social and health inequities, including for youth SRHR. Meaningful youth engagement is crucial to understand their risks and inform inclusive disaster responses.  ...

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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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Donna O'Hara DO Chief Operating Officer donna.o'hara@telethonkids.org.au Donna O’Hara has recently joined Telethon Kids Institute as our new Chief ...

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Comprehensive quantitative and qualitative evaluation of Community Playgroups across Australia ...

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Tess Yasmin Neida Gregory Harman-Smith Sechague Monroy TG YHS NSM BSc (Hons), PhD (Psychology) BA, BHlthSc(Hons), PhD BDS, MPH Senior Research ...

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The involvement of young people in the development, implementation and evaluation of youth mental health services, policy and research programs is essential to ensure they are appropriate and responsive to the needs of young people. Despite the increasingly central role that youth engagement and participation plays internationally, such activities are rarely described in detail. ...

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• 2020
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Growing up in a language-rich home environment is important for children's language development in the early years. The concept of "technoference" (technology-based interference) suggests that screen time may be interfering with opportunities for talk and interactions between parent and child; however, limited longitudinal evidence exists exploring this association.  ...

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Australia is the only developed country to consistently undertake a developmental census of its children nationwide. The repeated collection of the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) has provided an unprecedented opportunity to examine the prevalence of developmental vulnerability across Australia's states and territories, the socio-economic distribution of developmental vulnerability across jurisdictions, and how these distributions might have changed over time. ...

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