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The aim of the WEC is to help teachers, school leaders and policy makers better understand and support the wellbeing and engagement of their students.
The goals of the current study were to identify different trajectories of sadness from Grade 6 to 9 in Australian school students, and to explore the role that social support from school, teachers, friends and families play in supporting students’ mental health.
It has been well established that children's development at school entry is associated with their later academic achievement, but less is known about whether there is also an association with other measures of school success, such as students' social and emotional wellbeing.
The Human Development and Community Wellbeing (HDCW) Team focuses on improving outcomes for children, family, and the community.
This review examines the current evidence for a possible connection between nutritional intake (including micronutrients and whole diet) and neurocognitive...
Although children's later experiences can still have an effect, developments in early childhood have long-lasting effects on health, behaviour and learning...
This chapter assesses what global evidence tells us about the importance of early childhood education and development...
This chapter describes the development of young children in a sample of poor rural communities across Indonesia.
Early child development may have important consequences for inequalities in health and well-being. This paper explores population level patterns of child...
Early motor impairments have been reported in children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD), but it is not clear if early detection of motor impairments can identify children at risk for NDD or how early such impairments might be detected. Our aim was to characterize early motor function in children later diagnosed with NDD relative to typically developing children or normative data.