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We aim to ensure that high quality outcome measures are available to evaluate treatments and services for children with disability rigorously. We aim to translate our research into resources to support families, carers and clinicians.

The Sibling Project focuses on the wellbeing, relationships and needs of children, adolescents and emerging adults who have a sibling with a developmental disability.

Developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE) conditions are rare, and most have a genetic cause.

Principal Research Fellow

A project led by The Kids Research Institute Australia’s child disability team will seek to reduce potentially preventable hospitalisations and build health literacy for children and young people with intellectual disability.

Children with intellectual disability who underwent gastrostomy – a feeding tube placed into the stomach – had better overall health and fewer hospitalisations for all causes except acute respiratory illnesses, research led by The Kids Research Institute Australia has found.

There is an urgent need to develop high-quality falls prevention services for older adults with intellectual disability

For mothers with intellectual disability, modifiable risk factors for adverse outcomes need addressing

People with intellectual disability fall at a younger age compared with the broader community

The IDEA system is a valuable resource to address the needs of people living with intellectual disability