Understanding autism traits key to classroom outcomes
Teacher knowledge of autism-related behaviour is a key factor in successful classroom outcomes.
PhD candidate Libby Macdonald from Griffith University and The Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism (Autism CRC), said with about 73%...
Hearing words spoken helps kids read
Children find it easier to spell a word when they’ve already heard it spoken, a new study led by researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD) at Macquarie...
Exercise and healthy diet interventions in pregnancy
Globally – half of all women of childbearing age are overweight or obese and women generally are gaining excess weight in pregnancy. This excess weight gain is putting women at greater risk of complications...
To delay or not to delay starting school?
Parents of pre-school children and infants often feel significantly stressed as they ponder the pros and cons of delayed entry to primary school in a vacuum of objective information, a QUT education academic said...
Parents who supply teens with booze increasing risk of heavy drinking
Parents supplying their teens with alcohol are not only fuelling underage drinking but are increasing the risk that their children and their children’s friends will drink heavily.
Australia-first research led by Dr Gary Chan from...
Bullied primary school children are falling behind in learning
New work from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) has uncovered that one in three boys and one in four girls aged 8 to 9 years are experiencing weekly bullying at their primary school.
The...
Texting a social barrier for children struggling with literacy skills
Texting could be creating a literacy issue for children, but it is not the problem most people would expect.
In a presentation to Education Transforms 2017 in Hobart today, written language expert Dr Nenagh Kemp...
Biting and chewing forces tooth growth
University of Sydney researchers have found chewing and biting to be the cause of adult teeth breaking through the gums rather than an innate, unknown force.
Dr Babak Sarrafpour and his team of researchers from...
Adolescents who self-harm show worrying substance abuse by age 35
A study by researchers from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) that followed a sample of almost 2000 Victorian school children from the age of 14 until the age of 35 found that social...
Five tips for parents to discuss and identify eating disorders
Controversial Netflix drama To the Bone has brought eating disorders into the spotlight, but a Deakin University clinical psychologist warns it’s important for parents to take the lead in discussing these issues with their...
