The KIDS Foundation celebrates 30 years next year and this month they are asking you to “Put Your Hand Up” and donate to this wonderful cause so they can continue their great work with KIDS who’ve suffered trauma. Dr. Susie O’Neill Founder of the KIDS Foundation...
Hospital readmissions for asthma are increasing among children, a new study has found, highlighting the gaps in health care for the most common chronic paediatric illness. The study led by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and published in the Journal of Asthma, found about one...
A group of Monash University researchers report that over the past 20 years, there have been monumental shifts in the way we work with young people with disability and their families. Back in the 1990s, when a child was diagnosed with autism it followed a sad...
Anne Woodin finds that her son’s ability to read creates good challenges for him, and difficult ones for her. When you are pregnant, you don’t think about actually having the baby for the first couple of months. During the last couple of months, it is all...
Researchers Rebecca English, Chris Krogh, Giuliana Liberto, and Karleen Gribble say, Australia needs more flexible options Schools were thrown into a spin by the COVID-19 pandemic. When children were sent home to learn remotely, teaching methods remained largely the same. Many children, parents and teachers were...
Stress is common among teachers, and recent reports suggest it’s getting worse, write researchers Rebecca J. Collie and Caroline F. Mansfield We need to understand the sources of this stress to improve support for teachers. Growing teacher shortages in Australia underscore the need for this support. It...
This is why it matters – and we can do something about it, write researchers Linda J. Graham Callula Killingly Jenna Gillett-Swan and Penny Van Bergen “School SUX!” We’ve all heard it and some of us have felt it. It’s such a common sentiment that parents and teachers...
Time in hospital sets back tens of thousands of children’s learning each year, but targeted support can help them catch up, reports Rebecca Mitchell and Anne McMaugh NAPLAN scores can tell us about a child’s learning, but can they also help us to support learners who...
More rented, more mortgaged, less owned, writes researcher Rachel Ong ViforJ On the surface, the latest census tells us home ownership has changed little over the past five years. Between the 2016 census and this census in 2021, the share of Australians owning their homes remained...
Louise Hartley laments the erosion in social mores, and finds a trip to the ballet with her children an extremely exasperating excursion. It was my children’s first trip to the ballet. As we found our seats, I explained to them the importance of being quiet and...
