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The DETECT-Schools Study was launched in May 2020 as a partnership between the WA Government Departments of Education and Health with The Kids Research Institute Australia. 

Our Child Health Analytics Team uses cutting-edge technologies to better understand how and why the health and wellbeing of children varies from place to place. We develop innovative geospatial methods that can harness large, complex datasets to pinpoint hotspots of elevated risk, evaluate change through time, and explore underlying drivers.

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Most children are capable of bullying behaviour at some time, and it’s our job as parents to discourage this behaviour as soon as it appears.

Create happy, healthy futures for generations of children

Billionaire Stan Perron has made donations to The Kids as part of the Stan Perron Charitable trust totaling $500,000 a year. Read more about his generosity

The Imogen Miranda Suleski Fellowship is an annual award for early-career post-doctoral researchers at The Kids Research Institute Australia.

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Two The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers behind a new book featuring the voices of Kids with DCD.

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Birth order effects have been linked to variability in intelligence, educational attainment and sexual orientation. First- and later-born children have been linked to an increased likelihood of an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis, with a smaller body of evidence implicating decreases in cognitive functioning with increased birth order. The present study investigated the potential association between birth order and ASD diagnostic phenotypes in a large and representative population sample.

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