School attendance should therefore be a priority for all schools, and not just those with high rates of absence or low average achievement. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2017
• March 2017

In Australia, the health and education sectors provide universal early childhood services for the same population of children. Therefore, there is a strong imperative to view service use and outcomes through a cross-sectoral lens to better understand and address the service needs of young children and their families. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• January 2022

School readiness is a construct used by educators and policy makers to describe a range of abilities that are beneficial for children transitioning to school. The association of socioeconomic disadvantage with developmental vulnerability when children start school is well established. Parents play a crucial role in supporting children’s transition to school and are acknowledged as their child’s first and foremost teacher. ...

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• 2022
• January 2022

The findings of this study support the use of a GF6+ subscale from the FAD, as a quick and effective tool to assess the overall functioning of families ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2014
• November 2014

Prenatal alcohol exposure is an important modifiable cause of adverse fetal outcomes during and following pregnancy. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2015
• January 2015

The aim of this study was to identify health professionals' perceptions about screening for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) in Australia. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2013
• January 2013

Pneumococcal colonization of the nasopharynx is especially common in young children and is a pre-requisite for pneumococcal disease... ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2012
• October 2012

Emma Francis Ha Steve Francis Steve Francis Ha Steve Hayley Melissa Francis Steve Sarah Emma Carrington Steve Francis Steve Francis Steve Francis Ha Francis Joel Steve Francis Ha Steve Francis Glenn Steve Sarah Adams Mitrou Nguyen Zubrick Telethon ...

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Francis Steve Mitrou Zubrick FG SR BEc FASSA, FAAMHS, MSc AM PhD Program Head, Population Health, and Team Head, Human Development and Community Wellbeing Honorary Emeritus Research Fellow 08 6319 1499 08 6319 1409 francis.mitrou@telethonkids.org.au ...

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• The ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course

Francis Ha Steve Mitrou Nguyen Zubrick FG HN SR BEc PhD FASSA, FAAMHS, MSc AM PhD Program Head, Population Health, and Team Head, Human Development and Community Wellbeing Senior Research Fellow Honorary Emeritus Research Fellow 08 6319 1499 08 ...

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• The ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course

Children and adolescents spend more than one-third of their time sleeping. Yet, we know little about the causal impact of sleeping on their development. This paper is the first to exploit variation in local daily daylight duration measured on pre-determined diary dates across the same individuals through time as an instrument in an individual fixed effects regression model to draw causal estimates of sleep duration on a comprehensive set of child development indicators.  ...

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• 2024
• May 2024

We found that algorithms reduced the amount of missing data and improved within‑individual consistency. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2014
• January 2014