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Affecting approximately 400 people in Australia, Rett syndrome is a rare neurological disorder that occurs almost exclusively in girls and affects mobility and development, impacting everything from walking and talking to eating and breathing.
Culturally secure intervention to facilitate medical follow up for Aboriginal children, after being hospitalised with chest infections, have proven to improve long-term lung health outcomes.
A new website for parents of trans children and young people across Australia is expected to improve family wellbeing and ultimately save lives after launching in May 2023.
Pneumococcal – a bacterial infection that can cause pneumonia and meningitis – is responsible for 1000s of hospital admissions in Australia each year, many of them children.
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Associations between school absence and academic achievement: Do socioeconomics matter?School attendance should therefore be a priority for all schools, and not just those with high rates of absence or low average achievement.
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Parental perspectives on the communication abilities of their daughters with Rett syndromeHow females with Rett syndrome communicate in everyday life and the barriers and facilitators to successful communication
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A Method to Exploit the Structure of Genetic Ancestry Space to Enhance Case-Control StudiesThese results highlight how UNICORN can enable reliable, powerful, and convenient genetic association analyses without access to the individual-level data
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Chronic illness and developmental vulnerability at school entryChronic illness in young children is a risk factor for reduced school readiness
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Risk factors for repetition of a deliberate self-harm episode within seven days in adolescents and young adultsThe risk of repetition of deliberate self-harm peaks in the first 7 days after a deliberate self-harm episode.
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Cyber AgressionInformation and communication technology has allowed individuals to engage in aggressive behavior on multiple distinct platforms with different capabilities