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Niklas, Frank; Tayler, Collette; Gilley, Tim – Australian Journal of Education, 2017
A critical challenge within early childhood policy is to increase the capacity of early childhood education and care systems to intervene effectively and sufficiently early to improve the learning and development outcomes of marginalised children. An initial step is to reliably identify young children at risk of poorer learning outcomes. This…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Children, Cognitive Ability
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Neal, Sinead; Frederickson, Norah – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2016
The transition to secondary school is considered difficult for children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), yet there has been little strength-based investigation of positive experiences of this population and the types of support they value most in managing anxiety about transition. The current article presents a qualitative exploration of the…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Transitional Programs, Secondary School Students
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Hildenbrand, Claudia; Niklas, Frank; Cohrssen, Caroline; Tayler, Collette – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2017
This study investigated the relationship between children's attendance at different types of early childhood education and care programmes and their mathematical and verbal skills. Analyses of data from 1314 children participating in an Australian longitudinal study, the E4Kids project, revealed no relationship between children's verbal ability…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Kindergarten