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The Life Course Centre is a national centre funded by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence Scheme and hosted through the University of Queensland with collaborating nodes at the University of Western Australia, Sydney University and University of Melbourne.
Language development is critical for children's life chances. Promoting parent-child interactions is suggested as one mechanism to support language development in the early years. However, limited evidence exists for a causal effect of parent-child interactions on children's language development.
Research from large population-based studies investigating the language and academic outcomes for bilingual children is rare. The current study aimed to investigate the influence of dual language exposure on (i) English vocabulary outcomes at 5 years (126 bilinguals, 1675 monolinguals), and 10 years (vocabulary: 92 bilinguals, 1413 monolinguals:), and (ii) academic outcomes at 10 years (107 bilinguals, 1746 monolinguals).
Four The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers are among those who have received funding in the WA State Government's Merit Award Program announced today.
Variation in receptive vocabulary ability is associated with variation in children's school achievement, and low receptive vocabulary ability is a risk...
Prenatal exposure to testosterone is known to affect fetal brain maturation and later neurocognitive function.
The current study investigated the extent to which low levels of joint attention in infancy and parent-child book reading across early childhood increase the...
The present study investigated the relations among fetal testosterone, child socio-emotional engagement and language development...
Language is a robust developmental phenomenon, characterised by rapid and prodigious growth.
In the majority of people, language production is lateralized to the left cerebral hemisphere and visuospatial skills to the right.