A study revealing significant levels of language difficulty among detainees at the Banksia Hill Detention Centre underscores the need for more support for young people trying to navigate the justice system, Telethon Kids Institute researchers say. ...

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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

Project management is widely used to deliver projects on time, within budget and of defined quality ...

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• 2011
• June 2011

The etiology of autism spectrum disorders is unknown but there are claims of increasing prevalence in many countries. ...

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• 2010
• October 2010

Health professionals have an important role to play in preventing prenatal alcohol exposure ...

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• 2010
• August 2010

Recruiting control subjects who are representative of the population from which the cases are drawn is a challenge in case-control studies ...

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• 2010
• May 2010

To examine the prevalence, cumulative incidence, and survival in an Australian cohort with Rett syndrome (RTT). ...

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• 2006
• March 2006

Liz Martyn Milne Symons E MS MPH PhD B.A. (Hons) PhD. Honorary Emeritus Fellow Honorary Research Associate 08 6319 1672 martyn.symons@ ...

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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by exposure to alcohol in utero. It has pervasive, lifelong impacts and is recognised as a major public health concern in many countries where alcohol is used. The FASD Research Australia Centre of Research Excellence was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council to generate and translate evidence to address prevention, diagnosis, and management of FASD in Australia. ...

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• 2022
• March 2022

Children of mothers with alcohol use disorders are at risk of not meeting minimum educational benchmarks in numeracy and literacy, with the risk highest among Indigenous children. ...

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• 2017
• May 2017