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Applying the arts to wild little hearts

When author Maurice Sendak first sketched out the story of a rambunctious little boy sent to his room without supper, there’s no way he could have known his rollercoaster tale of childhood imagination would still be speaking to the hearts of wild young things more than six decades on.

Early learning on the move: Play Active to boost kids’ energetic play nationwide

More than 80,000 Australian children are expected to benefit from a trial being rolled out to 700 childcare centres across the country that aims to boost declining physical activity levels.

Shopping for data to drive discoveries

What if researchers could shop for different data to help uncover how, when and why chronic conditions such as asthma, obesity, allergies and poor mental health develop?

Research

Heritable and environmental determinants of hospitalisation for common childhood illnesses

We will leverage the unique Western Australian data linkage resources to undertake the definitive twin and sibling study of infection-related hospitalisation

Research

GAMA project

This study investigated host gene expression in response to new HIV infection.

People

Aria May

Clinical Lead, Speech Pathology

People

Gen Wilmot

Speech Pathologist

People

Lindy Henry

Inklings Practitioner

News & Events

Importance of boredom

In this blog, Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead (Psychology) Dr Mei’en Lim offers families — both parents and children — advice on how to embrace boredom. 

Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance

The CO-OP approach guides children to independently discover and develop cognitive strategies to perform the necessary tasks of everyday living.