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A The Kids Research Institute Australia study has found a popular education programme where teenagers care for a "robot" baby fails to reduce teen pregnancy, and could in fac
Mary Brushe BPsych(Hons), PhD (Public Health) Senior Research Officer, Epidemiology mary.brushe@thekids.org.au Senior Research Officer, Epidemiology
The aim of the project was to provide the South Australian Department for Education with a synthesis of high-quality evidence on the population prevalence of various disabilities among school-aged children.
Learning Together, developed by the South Australian Department for Education, aims to create enriched learning environments that can be transferred to the home to support positive changes for children and families.
Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media related activities. These gender gaps in time allocation appear at very young ages and widen overtime.
These results show that a word gap related to maternal education is not apparent up to twelve months of age
Findings support the aims of the early Human Capability Index in being adaptable and applicable for use within a range of low and middle income countries
Overall, temperament had small associations with cognitive and academic outcomes after accounting for parenting and confounders
Results indicate that early childhood education is beneficial for children's early development
Inequalities in child healthy development: some challenges for effective implementation