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Intellectual Disability

About 2 per cent of children are estimated to have an intellectual disability. The cause of the condition is unknown in at least 50 per cent of cases.

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Impact for DCD

Melissa Gail Matt Jenny Andrew Videos Licari Alvares Cooper Downs Whitehouse Watch and listen to Andrew PhD PhD BCA Marketing, BSc Statistics and

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Caregiver-mediated interventions to support self-regulation among infants and young children (0-5 years): A protocol for a realist review

Self-regulation is a modifiable protective factor for lifespan mental and physical health outcomes. Early caregiver-mediated interventions to promote infant and child regulatory outcomes prevent long-term developmental, emotional and behavioural difficulties and improve outcomes such as school readiness, educational achievement and economic success. To harness the population health promise of these programmes, there is a need for more nuanced understanding of the impact of these interventions.

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Comparing Web-Based Mindfulness With Loving-Kindness and Compassion Training for Promoting Well-Being in Pregnancy: Protocol for a Three-Arm Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Promoting psychological well-being and preventing distress among pregnant women is an important public health goal. In addition to adversely impacting the mother's health and well-being, psychological distress in pregnancy increases the risk of poor pregnancy outcomes, compromises infant socioemotional development and bonding, and heightens maternal and child vulnerability in the postpartum period. Mindfulness and compassion-based interventions show potential for prevention and early intervention for perinatal distress.

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Trends in pre-existing mental health disorders among parents of infants born in Western Australia from 1990 to 2005

From 1990 to 2005, there was an increase in prevalence of parents with a prior history of mental health disorders in WA.

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Predicting Long-Term Survival Without Major Disability for Infants Born Preterm

Apgar score, birth weight, sex, socioeconomic status, and maternal ethnicity, in addition to gestational age, have pronounced impacts on disability-free survival.

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Educational Outcomes of Children in Contact with the Child Protection System: A Longitudinal Population Study

Melissa Fiona Helen O'Donnell Stanley Leonard BPsych (Hons), MPsych, GradDip Ed, PhD FAA FASSA MSc MD FFPHM FAFPHM FRACP FRANZCOG HonDSc HonDUniv

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A process and impact evaluation of use of a Powered Wheelchair Standing Device by boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Graham Jenny Peter Hall Downs Jacoby BAppSci PhD CRFS FANZSRS FThorSoc FERS BApplSci (physio) MSc PhD BA (Hons) MSc Honorary Research Associate

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Changes in risk factors for preterm birth in Western Australia 1984-2006

Marked increases in maternal age and primiparous births were observed. A four-fold increase in the rates of pre-existing medical complications over time...

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National Grants for Innovative Child Health Research

Perth's Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has been awarded more than 3 million dollars from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)