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Avoiding the office commute is just one reason why working from home suits many workers with disability better. Employers need to take a nuanced approach to workplace flexibility.
The increase in children with developmental concerns may flow from the erosion of protective factors that support children during early development.
How can we ensure ethical research principles for young trans people and their families are met – especially when they might see research as one of few avenues for accessing care?
In this podcast, Bill Shorten joins The Conversation to discuss the aftermath of the royal commission report, and progress reforming the NDIS to make it more sustainable.
The NDIS needs to focus on helping people with disability reach their goals rather than what they can’t do. It’s time the NDIS returned to its roots.
When it comes to treating people with eating disorders, we may need to look more widely than what studies tell us work.
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a devastating form of dementia, which causes a decline in brain functioning and increased risk of mental illness.
Henry Lawson said deafness was ‘in a great measure responsible for my writing’. Wright said hers was ‘part of the conditions I live under’. Their disability was inherent to their creativity.
Intended to be a no-fault insurance scheme for Australians with severe and permanent disability, the NDIS has changed lives but also been the subject of controversy in its first decade.
Just having hyperactive, impulsive, and inattentive symptoms is not sufficient to qualify for a diagnosis of ADHD. Symptoms need to have a negative effect.
Around half of toddlers who aren’t chattering by age two will catch up later, but we can’t predict which ones.
For some people, successful treatment of co-existing ADHD may be the best way of getting relief from chronic anxiety.
For too long, people with disability have been stripped of their autonomy, self-determination and dignity when it comes to accessing sexual and reproductive health care.
New research reveals how carers lack necessary support for their own wellbeing.
In our new research, we have explored how podcasts about mental health can be designed in a way that reduces stigma and discrimination.
Some babies bottom-shuffle along. Others commando crawl on their tummy. Some babies move hands first with their bent knees following along like they are playing game of leapfrog.
Our study shows when children first present for neurodevelopmental assessment they are also likely to have mental health concerns.
Though more research is needed, the idea is a relatively small amount of support early on can help prevent future difficulties.
There are four signs of parental burnout and four positive things parents can do to take care of themselves as well as their kids.
Top contributors
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW
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Deputy Director, The Kids Research Institute Australia, Professor of Autism Research, The University of Western Australia
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Adjunct Professor, Summer Disability Research Centre, La Trobe University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Disability Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Professor, University of Sydney; RMIT University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UniSA Creative, Adelaide University
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Professor and Clinical Psychologist, Michael Crouch Chair in Child and Youth Mental Health, University of Sydney
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Psychologist and Research Associate in the Department of Paediatrics, Monash University
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Professor, Director, Griffith Inclusive Futures, Griffith University, Griffith University
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Senior Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Head of Autism Research and Senior Principal Research Fellow, The Kids Research Institute Australia
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Senior Lecturer of Wellbeing Science, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, Dignity Project, Griffith University
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Financial Markets Foundation Chair of Developmental Mental Health, The University of Melbourne