Ten-year-old Isabelle decided to make and sell loom band bracelets to raise money for Telethon Kids Institute. ...

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Telethon Kids Institute researchers have collaborated with global experts to launch an online tool designed to assess the risk of contracting COVID-19 and provide advice to reduce transmission. ...

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• 2020
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Dr Lea-Ann Kirkham and Dr Chris Blyth have been appointed as Co-Directors ...

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• 2019
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Telethon Kids Institute researchers have confirmed that skin infections in many Aboriginal children across northern Western Australia are going unrecognised. ...

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• 2017
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Longitudinal analyses showed that for each increase in liquor stores over time, alcohol consumption increased ...

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• 2017
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Central Great Southern couple Ella Maesepp and David Potter, with sons Zavier and Quade Communities in the Central Great Southern region have known ...

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We recruited age- and sex-matched Chinese immigrants living in Western Australia for less than 6 months (newly arrived, n = 22) or more than 5 years. ...

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• 2018
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Caregivers play a crucial role in supporting the development of their children's emotion regulation. This study validated the Parental Assistance with Child Emotion Regulation (PACER) Questionnaire in a sample of 491 caregivers of young children ≤ 5 years. ...

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• 2022
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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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We aimed to describe the distribution of RV species and associations between RV species and clinical features in children hospitalized with clinically severe pneumonia in Morocco ...

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