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Holistic Early Childhood Development Index goes globalChildren around the world could have better access to education thanks to an early childhood development index created for UNESCO by The Kids researcher, Prof Sally Brinkman.
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NHMRC grants to benefit vulnerable and disadvantaged children and young peopleTwo leading The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers will use more than $1.1 million in National Health and Medical Research Council funding to improve outcomes for some of the world’s most vulnerable children and young people.
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Playgroup Week celebrates importance of early childhood interventionNational Playgroup Week, the annual event run by Playgroup Australia, will take place across the country from 20 March to 27 March.
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A population health approach in education to support children's early development: A Critical Interpretive SynthesisThe results from this review indicate that it would indeed be plausible to adapt the population health approach to sites and schools
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Implementing and Evaluating Interventions to Improve School Readiness and Early LiteracyThe implementation of the Pacific early age readiness and learning program has generated significant data, evidence, operational experience, and knowledge
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Latent profiles of early developmental vulnerabilities in a New South Wales child population at age 5 yearsPatterns of early childhood developmental vulnerabilities may provide useful indicators for particular mental disorder outcomes in later life
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Birth outcomes and academic achievement in childhood: A population record linkage studyThis study used population-based record linkage to examine the association between early life risk factors and academic achievement.
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Effects of maltreatment and parental schizophrenia spectrum disorders on early childhood social-emotional functioning: a population record linkage studyChildhood maltreatment and history of parental SSD are associated independently with poor early childhood social-emotional functioning
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The 2015 Middle Childhood Survey (MCS) of mental health and well-being at age 11 years in an Australian population cohortmost children report mental health and well-being, but the population distribution spanned the full range of possible scores on every construct.