Every child deserves the best possible start in life. Evidence demonstrates the period from pre-birth to three years is a vital period of development. It lays the foundations for a child’s future and has life-long impacts on health, education, job opportunities, social inclusion and wellbeing. ...

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Evaluating Early Childhood Education and Care ...

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• 2010
• January 2010

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is common in children, causes them considerable discomfort, as well as distress to parents and has a tendency to recur. ...

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• 2013
• January 2013

Amy Keerthi Jenny Daniel Finlay-Jones Kottampally Downs Ta AFJ KK JA DT BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Clinical), MHealthEcon, PhD (Clin Psych) Bsc (Hons), GradDipPsych(Adv) BApplSci (physio) MSc PhD BBiomedSc (Hons) Head, Early Neurodevelopment & Mental ...

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We found no increased risk of poor development among boys with hypospadias or undescended testis ...

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• 2017
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The goal of the article is to support the early childhood sector's efforts to increase the salience of early childhood as a social issue and change policy and practice to better support young children and their families. Cultural models shape how people think about social issues and support solutions. ...

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• 2023
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Parent–child book reading interventions alone are unlikely to meet needs of children and families for whom the absence of reading is psychosocial risk factor ...

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• 2016
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These challenges in measuring early childhood development are exacerbated when making comparisons across cultures ...

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• 2020
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Globally, as scale up of early childhood education (ECE) continues, monitoring ECE quality is imperative to promote service aspects that drive positive outcomes for children. Monitoring of ECE quality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is scarce, limited by challenges in varied conceptualisations of quality, lack of measurement tools that reflect local culture and context, and implementation difficulties in low resource settings. ...

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• 2024
• March 2024

Alanna Sincovich AS BPsych(Hons), PhD Senior Research Officer 08 6375 6108 Alanna.sincovich@telethonkids.org.au Senior Research Officer @AlannaSincovich Alanna is a Senior Research Officer at the Telethon Kids Institute. Her research takes a ...

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Recently, an established "small macrophage" phenotype has been observed in the sputum of patients with CF and COPD. However, little is known about the... ...

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• 2012
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This book chapter explains the maturation of immune functions during pregnancy & in early childhood, and addresses the importance of early environmental... ...

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• 2015
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