Initial evaluation suggests that QI-Disability is a reliable and valid measure of quality of life across the spectrum of intellectual disability ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• March 2019

Findings provide preliminary evidence that early psychosis is associated with reduced heart rate variability ...

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

Investigating whether the presence and severity of nausea and vomiting may be related to symptom severity in offspring with autism spectrum disorder ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2018
• June 2018

We argue that 'high functioning autism' is an inaccurate clinical descriptor when based solely on intelligence quotient demarcations ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2020
• January 2020

Here we investigate these features in an animal model related to autism spectrum disorder - the DVD-deficient rat ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• May 2019

Women combining paid employment with dual caring responsibilities for children and aging parents, experience both benefits and costs ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• April 2019

We conducted a study that examined the concordance of diagnoses between a multidisciplinary assessment team and a range of clinicians in Australia. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2017
• May 2017

This is the first study to show an association between early language ability and autistic-like traits in adulthood ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2017
• May 2017

This large population-based study identified no consistent association across two cohorts between prenatal head growth and postnatal autistic traits ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2018
• April 2018

The number of words children produce (expressive vocabulary) and understand (receptive vocabulary) changes rapidly during early development, partially due to genetic factors. Here, we performed a meta-genome-wide association study of vocabulary acquisition and investigated polygenic overlap with literacy, cognition, developmental phenotypes, and neurodevelopmental conditions, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.  ...

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• 2024
• January 2024

Economic preferences may be shaped by exposure to sex hormones around birth. Prior studies of economic preferences and numerous other phenotypic characteristics use digit ratios (2D : 4D), a purported proxy for prenatal testosterone exposure, whose validity has recently been questioned. We use direct measures of neonatal sex hormones (testosterone and oestrogen), measured from umbilical cord blood (n = 200) to investigate their association with later-life economic preferences (risk preferences, competitiveness, time preferences and social preferences) in an Australian cohort (Raine Study Gen2). ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2020
• December 2020

Little is known about parent preferences regarding delivery methods of early interventions. This research examined, through parent report, the current and preferred delivery methods of seven common educational early interventions accessed by New Zealand children with autism spectrum disorder. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2021
• September 2021