Household chaos makes bringing up children with ADHD more difficult
Researchers often observe inadequate parenting, a negative emotional climate and household chaos in families of children with ADHD. A research group at Goethe University Frankfurt and the universities of Bremen, Heidelberg, Tübingen and Kiel...
Sleep, baby, sleep
Families around the world had their dream questions answered as part of a global Facebook forum to mark Baby Sleep Day.
Flinders University child sleep psychologist, Associate Professor Michael Gradisar, helped kickstart the Pediatric Sleep Council social media...
The last of the ‘90s babies head to uni
Want to reach them? Forget telephone or email; try social media instead.
They were born in the year that could have ended it all – right before the turn of a new century and the...
Planning and Participation: a new study targeting teenagers with autism
Adolescence is a critical period of transition between childhood and adulthood. Teenagers experience rapid developmental changes and face new challenges from the world around them.
At the same time, they are looking to develop their...
Seasonal Influenza Vaccination 2017
The annual National Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Program will commence in April 2017.
Annual seasonal influenza vaccination is recommended for any person aged 6 months and over who wishes to reduce the likelihood of becoming ill with influenza. Australian Government advice and recommendations on...
Changing nature of handwriting
Dr Noella Mackenzie, researcher and senior lecturer in literacy studies in the CSU School of Education in Albury-Wodonga, initiated her research last year to better understand the evolving imperatives that shape school curriculums and students' writing skill attributes...
Eating together is more fulfilling
Making food the core of people’s daily routine need not breed a nation of fatties, says Professor Claude Fischler, a Visiting International Research Fellow at Flinders School of Health Sciences.
Collective engagement at regular mealtimes...
Post breastfeeding tissue remodelling explained by new research
A ground-breaking study into the changes that occur in a woman’s breast, from growing into one that provides milk for a new-born, and then back to its normal state, has discovered that milk-producing cells...
Bush kids’ oral health in question
James Cook University researchers say children in rural Queensland are three times more likely to be admitted to hospital for dental problems than in other parts of the state.
The team from JCU’s Anton Breinl...
Young people with disability- relationships with support workers
The dynamics of the relationship between young people with disability and their support worker is revealed in a new book launched in Lismore and Sydney by Southern Cross University’s Centre for Children and Young...
