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Joint attention and parent-child book readingGood language development is an integral component of school readiness and academic achievement.
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Exciting new clinical trials in cystic fibrosis: Infants need not applyThe recent announcement of the negative results of the TIGER- 2 phase 3 study of denufosol tetrasodium

Kids Rehab WA is an integrated team of clinicians and researchers who deliver and research therapies for children with acquired or congenital neurological impairments, leading to improved outcomes for children and their families.
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Early environmental determinants of pancreatic islet autoimmunity: a pregnancy to early life cohort study in children at risk of type 1 diabetesThis study is looking for the causes of type 1 diabetes, so that we can find ways to prevent it.

The aim of the Computational Biology team is to understand how individual bases in our genome predispose, alter and interact in normal and disease contexts.
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Neurocognitive outcomes of children with type 1 diabetes mellitusTo conduct an analysis of children with TIDM’s cognitive profile at an age in which both cognition and cortical development are still maturing

Working alongside the Healthy Skin & ARF Prevention team, clinicians and other researchers; Elder researchers and community members have driven the co-design of healthy skin promotion resources localised to their community.

The vision of the Nutrition in Early Life team is to work together with the community to produce quality research, for improving our knowledge of how a mother’s diet during pregnancy and breastfeeding can improve both her and her child’s health.
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A Genome-wide Association Meta-analysis of Preschool Internalizing ProblemsIn this study, the influence of genome-wide measured single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) was investigated in 3 cohorts (total N = 4,596 children) in which...
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High use of complementary and alternative medication among children with autism is not associated with the severity of core symptomsThis study provided evidence for high rate of alternative medicine use in an Australian paediatric ASD population, similar to other countries.