Report
The Australian Early Development Index (AEDI) Indigenous Adaptation Study
Curtin University of Technology and Telethon Institute for Child Health Research.
2009
Abstract
Children’s successful engagement with formal learning has long been recognised as crucial to their subsequent outcomes in health and wellbeing across the life-span. However, recent advances in the scientific understanding of brain development during gestation, infancy and early childhood has highlighted the importance of the environments of child-bearing and early child rearing in shaping the physical, cognitive and social-emotional aspects of child development which provide the foundation for early learning and skill acquisition. Policy and service initiatives which promote healthy brain development before birth and during the first five years of life are now recognised to be highly cost-effective, as they can reduce expensive interventions in later years when issues such as learning deficits, behaviour problems, and chronic disease manifest (Shore, 1997; McCain, Mustard & Shanker 2007; Sorin & Markotsis, 2008)…
Details
- Title
- The Australian Early Development Index (AEDI) Indigenous Adaptation Study
- Authors/Creators
- Sven R. Silburn - Curtin UniversitySally BrinkmanSue Ferguson-HillIrene StylesRoz Walker - Murdoch University, Ngangk Yira Institute for ChangeCarrington Shepherd - Curtin University
- Publisher
- Curtin University of Technology and Telethon Institute for Child Health Research.
- Identifiers
- 991005882547607891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Ngangk Yira Institute for Change
- Resource Type
- Report
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