This study aimed to identify maternal and family factors that may predict increases or decreases in child eating disorder symptoms over time, accounting for... ...

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

We aimed to investigate juvenile justice encounters in children with and without ADHD. ...

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

Mainstream Australian mental health services are failing Aboriginal young people. Despite investing resources, improvements in well-being have not materialised. Culturally and age appropriate ways of working are needed to improve service access and responsiveness. This Aboriginal-led study brings Aboriginal Elders, young people and youth mental health service staff together to build relationships to co-design service models and evaluation tools. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2021
• May 2021

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). ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2021
• February 2021

Children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing, their parents, Teachers of the Deaf, and other community stakeholders were involved in co-designing a web-based resource to support students' social-emotional well-being. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• October 2022

School toilets have been identified by sexuality and gender diverse (SGD) students as the least safe spaces in educational institutions. They are sites of verbal, physical and sexual victimisation. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• August 2022

Using a dataset of Australian children, we have the opportunity to not only investigate the transfer of educational resources across 3 generations in Australia. ...

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

A population-based, stepped wedge, cluster randomized controlled trial of an enhanced model of early infant primary care ...

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

Health information collected by governments can be a valuable resource for researchers seeking to improve diagnostics, treatments and public health outcomes. ...

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

The similarities in risk factors and in the adjusted rates of victimisation-related injury admission in both countries suggest that the VR cluster of ICD-10... ...

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

Bep Shakara Yael Uink Liddelow-Hunt Perry BU SLH YP BPsych(Hons.), MAppPsy(Clinical), PhD BPhil(Hons) BPsych (Hons) MPsych (Clin) PhD Honorary Research Associate Research Assistant; PhD Candidate Program Head, Mental Health & Youth; Head, Youth ...

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The process of referral pathway development provided a service mapping and gapping exercise to facilitate service integration ...

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