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Early literacy skills: review of evidence for pedagogical approaches that best support children’s early literacy skillsRecent evidence indicates that a child’s home learning environment is the strongest predictor of success in later reading abilities and that for children not receiving structured language and reading support at home.
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Evaluating Early Childhood Education and CareEvaluating Early Childhood Education and Care
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Review of the quality of evidence for preschool and school-based programs to support social and emotional skills, perseverance and academic self-conceptThis project provides guidance to help school leaders review the evidence for different programs, as well as a review of universal, evidence-based pre-school and school-based social and emotional learning programs available in Australia.
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Cohort Profile: The New South Wales Child Development Study (NSW-CDS)-Wave 2 (child age 13 years)The New South Wales Child Development Study was established to enable a life course epidemiological approach to identifying risk and protective factors
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Trends in alcohol-related injury admissions in adolescents in Western Australia and England: Population-based cohort studyMore needs to be done to address alcohol-related harm, and on-going monitoring is required to assess the effectiveness of strategies.
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Effectiveness of a school-based mindfulness program for transdiagnostic prevention in young adolescentsInvestigated mindfulness as a prevention program for anxiety, depression and eating disorders in early secondary school
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How well can poor child development be predicted from early life characteristics? A whole-of-population data linkage studyA targeted program would have the potential to prevent one-quarter of the cases of being vulnerable on two or more AEDC domains at age five
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How many infants are temperamentally difficult?In this letter, the authors respond to the commentary on Chong et al. “How many infants are temperamentally difficult?”; by correcting errors, & then...
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How many infants are temperamentally difficult? Comparing norms from the Revised Infant Temperament QuestionnaireThe aim of this study is to compare temperament scores from the original Revised Infant Temperament Questionnaire against scores from a large...
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Factors Influencing Parental Acceptance of Trans Children and Young People: Findings from Trans PathwaysTrans youth are at high risk of mental health difficulties and negative life events. Strong parental support is highly protective however there is little understanding of what factors facilitate the process of parental understanding and acceptance of a child’s gender identity.