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With rising levels of physical and mental health issues, ensuring children establish good physical activity behaviours early in life is more important than ever.
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.
These challenges in measuring early childhood development are exacerbated when making comparisons across cultures
We found no increased risk of poor development among boys with hypospadias or undescended testis
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
In the first few years of life, the family environment is the dominant setting in young children’s lives.
The Core Story for Early Childhood Development and Learning Collaboration is a long-term communications initiative to transform the way early childhood development and learning is understood in Australia.
An early childhood researcher based at The Kids Research Institute Australia’s Adelaide office has been honoured at South Australia’s Science Excellence and Innovation Awards for her work revealing the link between screen time exposure and toddlers’ language development.
Mum and children playing
National Playgroup Week, the annual event run by Playgroup Australia, will take place across the country from 20 March to 27 March.