We investigated the literature from 2002 to 2016 describing the risk of ASD, intellectual disability and ADHD in children of refugee and immigrant backgrounds. ...

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

Daily physical activity is critical during the early years of life for facilitating children's health and development. A large proportion of preschool children do not achieve the recommended 3 h of daily physical activity. Early childhood education and care (ECEC) services are a key setting to intervene to increase physical activity. There is a significant need for ECEC specific physical activity policy, including clearer guidelines on the amount of physical activity children should do during care, and strategies for implementation of these guidelines. ...

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

Birth order effects have been linked to variability in intelligence, educational attainment and sexual orientation. First- and later-born children have been linked to an increased likelihood of an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis, with a smaller body of evidence implicating decreases in cognitive functioning with increased birth order. The present study investigated the potential association between birth order and ASD diagnostic phenotypes in a large and representative population sample. ...

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• 2020
• November 2020

Building data linkage capabilities, and how linked databases can be used to identify persons with IDD and used for population-based research ...

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

Impaired interferon response and allergic sensitization may contribute to virus-induced wheeze and asthma development in young children. Plasmacytoid dendritic cells play a key role in antiviral immunity as critical producers of type I interferons.  ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2023
• December 2023

Results from recent clinical studies suggest potential efficacy of immune training (IT)-based approaches for protection against severe lower respiratory tract infections in infants, but underlying mechanisms are unclear. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2022
• July 2022

Data linkage is the bringing together of specific datasets from different sources using demographic information on individuals within a population. ...

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

Findings show that indicators of a poor intrauterine environment are associated with an elevated risk of ID, while for ASD, and particularly ASD without ID,... ...

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

Alexander Anthony Deborah Emma Jean-Francois Pat Larcombe Kicic Strickland de Jong Lauzon-Joset Holt A A DH EdJ JFLJ PG BScEnv (Hons) PhD BSc (Hons) PhD PhD PhD, DSc, FRCPath, FRCPI, FAA Team Leader, Respiratory Environmental Health Rothwell Family ...

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This protocol describes bilateral murine tumor models that display a symmetrical yet dichotomous response to immune checkpoint blockade ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2020
• May 2020

Upper and lower airways are conserved in their transcriptional composition, and variations associated with disease are present in both nasal and tracheal epithelium ...

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

We used population data on Western Australian singletons born from 1984 to 1999 (n = 398,353) to examine the sociodemographic characteristics of children... ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2011
• March 2011