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There are two new faces at CliniKids, Theresa, our new Clinical Services Manager and Ally, our new Occupational Therapist.

Stay updated with the latest news and events from Clinikids in December 2021, focusing on child health innovations and community engagement. Explore more now!

Thank you to Dave and Marieke Taylor of the Rotary Club of Scarborough who have donated a frangipani tree from their own garden to CliniKids to honour our late colleague, Kate Sorensen.

Professor Andrew Whitehouse and his research collaborators in the UK and Melbourne have teamed up to write a great article on the recent findings of the AICES (Australian Infant Communication and Engagement Study) for The Conversation.

Baby Audrey is involved in the Cub Study at CliniKids.

We thought we would share news of some fantastic achievements in our team recently.

Here’s a quick look at some of the published research to come out of CliniKids recently (June 2021 newsletter)

For Autism Month, CliniKids invited families to contribute to an "I can, I am!" strengths wall in its reception area – an idea that was wholeheartedly embraced by our little visitors and their families.

IDEA is one of the few population-based resources in the world dedicated to intellectual disability. The IDEA database contains information on all children born in Western Australia since 1983 who have been identified with having an intellectual disability. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder, both with and without intellectual disability, are also included in the database. Deidentified information is accessed from the Department of Communities WA, the WA Department of Education, and the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) to create the database. IDEA can be linked to other datasets to facilitate research into the determinants, outcomes and service needs of children and adults with intellectual disability. Researchers can apply for such linked data, available in a de-identified format under approval from an ethics committee.

A new study led by The Kids Research Institute Australia has found a link between masculine facial features and autism.