Early childhood development

The Kindergarten Inclusion Support (KIS) Packages aim to build the capacity of funded kindergartens for supporting the access and participation of children with a disability and high support needs and/or complex medical needs. The support provided by the KIS packages is on top of the existing resources available to kindergarten staff and does not necessarily […]

The weight debate goes on... The association between Body Mass Index (BMI) and child development has been recently investigated in over seven and a half thousand South Australian children at school entry. Unlike many previous studies which combined groups of both thin and healthy weight children as the baseline, this study differentiated between thinness and [...]

Who trained the early childhood educators who care for your children … your grandchildren … your nieces and nephews? Why is it so important? It’s a well proven fact that the foundations for a person’s life successes, health and emotional wellbeing lie in early childhood. If we get it right in the early years, we […]