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Rates of ADHD medications prescribed for children have gone up by 30% in three years. But our research found only one in four children who meet ADHD criteria are taking medication.
New research assessing young people in WA detention found 89% were severely impaired in at least one area of brain function. One in three had fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).
Early intervention is key to treating autism, but how is a family to know which quirky childhood behaviours might be symptoms? An educational psychologist explains.
Developmental coordination disorder has only recently been recognised for what it is.
Most of us learn to tie our shoelaces, dress ourselves and eat with cutlery with relative ease. But for children with dyspraxia, these tasks are incredibly difficult to master.
Early intervention in neurocognition and communication can address communication and cognition difficulties in survivors of childhood brain cancer and increase their quality of life.
Milestone charts can be an effective tool in spotting developmental problems. But do they say anything about the future potential of children who are developing normally?
Around 40% of Australian women drink alcohol while pregnant, despite medical guidelines recommending they don’t.
Boys are more likely to be diagnosed with neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism, because girls need more extreme genetic mutations to develop them, according to a study published in the American…
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Professor and Clinical Psychologist, Michael Crouch Chair in Child and Youth Mental Health, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow in Child Neurodevelopment, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne
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Financial Markets Foundation Chair of Developmental Mental Health, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Brain Mind Centre Nepean, University of Sydney
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Psychologist and Research Associate in the Department of Paediatrics, Monash University
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Deputy Director, The Kids Research Institute Australia, Professor of Autism Research, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor of Educational Studies in School Psychology, University of Calgary
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Professor of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Senior Principal Research Fellow in Epidemiology of Birth Defects, including Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, The Kids Research Institute Australia
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PhD Candidate and Researcher, The Kids Research Institute Australia
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Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Reader in Occupational Therapy, Brunel University of London
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Professor of Human Genetics, Adelaide University
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Lecturer & Research Fellow in Speech Pathology, University of Sydney