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Siu Min Tay is a PhD candidate within the Autism Research team at CliniKids.
Here’s a quick look at some of the published research to come out of CliniKids recently (June 2021 newsletter)
Our award-winning 60 Second Science video series translates the latest research into an accessible format for the community. Here you will also find our Autism Seminar Series and videos about our clinical services and current research projects.
PhD Candidate
Citation: Hill NTM, McGorry PD, Robinson J. Suicide by young Australians, 2006–2015: a cross-sectional analysis of national coronial data. Med J Aust
CliniKids runs training in a range of areas for clinicians and autism professionals in addition to workshops for parents, caregivers and families.
Australia’s first national guideline for supporting the learning, participation and wellbeing of autistic children and their families.
The importance of supporting parent-child interactions has been noted in the context of prodromal autism, but little consideration has been given to the possible contributing role of parental characteristics, such as psychological distress. This cross-sectional study tested models in which parent-child interaction variables mediated relations between parent characteristics and child autistic behaviour in a sample of families whose infant demonstrated early signs of autism.
Program Manager, Autism Research
Preeclampsia is a pregnancy disorder characterized by hypertension. Epidemiological studies have associated preeclampsia with an increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in offspring, such as autism and schizophrenia. Preeclampsia has also been linked with maternal vitamin D deficiency, another candidate risk factor also associated with autism.