Every child deserves the best possible start in life. Evidence demonstrates the period from pre-birth to three years is a vital period of development. It lays the foundations for a child’s future and has life-long impacts on health, education, job opportunities, social inclusion and wellbeing. ...

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Amy Keerthi Jenny Daniel Finlay-Jones Kottampally Downs Ta AFJ KK JA DT BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Clinical), MHealthEcon, PhD (Clin Psych) Bsc (Hons), GradDipPsych(Adv) BApplSci (physio) MSc PhD BBiomedSc (Hons) Head, Early Neurodevelopment & Mental ...

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Urinary tract infection (UTI) is common in children, causes them considerable discomfort, as well as distress to parents and has a tendency to recur. ...

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• 2013
• January 2013

Evaluating Early Childhood Education and Care ...

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• 2010
• January 2010

Globally, as scale up of early childhood education (ECE) continues, monitoring ECE quality is imperative to promote service aspects that drive positive outcomes for children. Monitoring of ECE quality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is scarce, limited by challenges in varied conceptualisations of quality, lack of measurement tools that reflect local culture and context, and implementation difficulties in low resource settings. ...

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• 2024
• March 2024

These challenges in measuring early childhood development are exacerbated when making comparisons across cultures ...

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• 2020
• May 2020

Parent–child book reading interventions alone are unlikely to meet needs of children and families for whom the absence of reading is psychosocial risk factor ...

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• 2016
• November 2016

The goal of the article is to support the early childhood sector's efforts to increase the salience of early childhood as a social issue and change policy and practice to better support young children and their families. Cultural models shape how people think about social issues and support solutions. ...

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• 2023
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Children with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can have difficulty adapting to the school context and may therefore be more likely to be suspended. We examined the association between ACEs and suspensions using linked administrative data on children born in Western Australia from July 2003–June 2004. ...

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• 2021
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We found no increased risk of poor development among boys with hypospadias or undescended testis ...

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• 2017
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The associations between childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and several proxies of early stimulation of the immune system, that is, day-care center... ...

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• 2015
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Alanna Sincovich AS BPsych(Hons), PhD Senior Research Officer 08 6375 6108 Alanna.sincovich@telethonkids.org.au Senior Research Officer @AlannaSincovich Alanna is a Senior Research Officer at the Telethon Kids Institute. Her research takes a ...

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