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Natasha Pearce

Honorary Research Associate

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Professor Helen Milroy AM

Honorary Research Fellow

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Debbie Palmer

Head, Early Life & Life-Course Health Program; Team Lead, Nutrition in Early Life

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Kathryn Malley

Research Operations Coordinator

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Keryn McKinnon

Head, Strategic Communications

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Jenny Mountain

Jenny Mountain is a Program Manager in the Neonatal Health team at The Kids Research Institute Australia.

Research

Friendship, loneliness and depression in adolescents with Asperger's Syndrome

This study investigated the relation between friendship, loneliness and depressive symptoms in adolescents with Asperger's Syndrome (AS).

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Inner speech impairments in autism

Three experiments investigated the role of inner speech deficit in cognitive performances of children with autism.

Projects

View the projects currently underway at The Kids Research Institute Australia by our range of different children's health research teams.

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Modulation of the postnatal maturation of immune function during early life: studies on the effects of natural infections and exposure to the bacterial-derived immunoenhancer OM85

Severe winter lower respiratory infections in early life are known to be major risk factors for subsequent development of asthma, and it is also known that the high susceptibility to these infections in infants is due to the functional immaturity of their immune systems.