Research Associate Job in Bentley, Perth WA - SEEK

Support mental health research for children with language difficulties through project coordination, research delivery and stakeholder engagement.

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The Development of Risky Decision Making in Adolescents at Risk of Developmental Language Disorder - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - Poor risky decision making (RDM) may lead to negative consequences across various aspects of daily life, especially during adolescence. Developmental...

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HELLO Lab Presents Evidence Library | HELLO Lab

New to our HELLO Lab Presents Project? Take a look at our videos and references below! Click a thumbnail to watch the video, and follow the link underneath ...

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Squeezed out or set free? Thriving Kids will transform Australian paediatric allied health care and our workforce | Banter Speech & Language

After reading the Thriving Kids Advisory Group’s Final Report released 3 February 2026, as well as the Ministerial media release and press conference transcript from Minister Mark Butler and Professor...

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Thriving Kids: will ‘targeted supports’ deliver what children and families need?

State of play: On 7 November 2025, the Thriving Kids Advisory Group held the second of what will be three meetings to advise the Government on the design of Thriving Kids.  Zoom in: Among other thi…

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Thriving Kids in Schools: Will it Work?

At its core, Thriving Kids is an ambitious plan by the Federal Government to: divert children with mild and moderate autism and developmental delay from the NDIS early intervention pathway; and rep…

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The Key Worker Model for young children with developmental delay or disability: does it actually improve child outcomes?

Almost always, children with developmental delays or disabilities need the support of more than one health professional. Health and education professionals should always work as a team with the fam…

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Longitudinal relations between phonological and grammatical development of young children with developmental language disorder

Most children with a developmental language disorder (DLD) have persistent grammatical difficulties, and a considerable subgroup of these children also experience difficulties in their speech produ...

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DLD: A FREE Guide for Families – 4th edition out today! [download] | Banter Speech & Language

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is common. But - compared with neurodevelopmental disorders like autism, ADHD, and learning disorders - DLD is still not well known. Back in 2020, we created a DL...

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Speech pathology regulation in Australia: progress, but more work to be done | Speechies in Business

Back in the news: On 12 September 2025, Health Ministers released a communique, rekindling conversations about speech pathology regulation in Australia. Among other things, Health Ministers agreed to:...

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Speech Pathology Week 2025: “Impact through communication”. What this means to us in uncertain times | Banter Speech & Language

In Australia, Speech Pathology Week starts today. It’s a good opportunity to explain who we help, who we are, our impact, big changes that will affect how we help and why we’re speech pathologists.

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Breaking news: “Thriving Kids” – more than just a new name for Foundational Supports for children?

“Thriving Kids”, announced by Minister Mark Butler on 20 August 2025, is the snappy new name for Foundational Supports for children. But is it more than that? We don’t have a lot of details right n…

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Children Draw Talking Around the World

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine how children from across the world draw themselves talking and to apply an interdisciplinary a...

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Narrative production in English speaking children aged 5–7 years with typical language development and developmental language disorder: Development of a reference data set

We explored the development of expressive narrative using Peter and the Cat. We aimed to support clinicians to capture information about functional language use by providing a reference data set to...

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‘NDIS Supports’ definition: who’s confused?

On 30 July 2025, the Government published its report on the August 2024 ‘Consultation on Draft Lists of NDIS Supports’. The report is very late. The report and its timing may confuse some participa…

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In deep water: paediatric allied health NDIS providers should read the Grattan Report

The Big Picture: On 29 June 2025, the influential Grattan Institute published a 108-page report with proposals to save the NDIS (link below). Many allied health providers were distracted by financi…

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Sector on edge: the NDIA knows it needs better processes to reduce NDIS reform anxiety and to rebuild trust with participants and providers

“Implementation [of reforms] does not stop with how our service delivery staff put that in a plan. Providers also have to know the consequences, know what to do, know what participants will come to…

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Allied health providers and pricing controls: independent providers that employ, train, and supervise staff are caught in the middle, and might not survive (and the NDIA knows it)

Calm, measured, and constructive: my mantra as I sat down to read the Final Pricing Report: 2025 of the Independent Pricing Committee (IPC) (released on 11 June). I wanted to understand why things …

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Building Speech and Quantifying Complexity | Communication Sciences and Disorders | Augustana College

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Latest articles from International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Browse the latest articles and research from International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

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Divided we fall: provider vs. provider, and the unbundling of allied health provider NDIS therapy services

The big picture: The 2024-2025 Annual Pricing Review, released by the NDIA on 11 June 2025, is full of bad news for allied health providers and the participants we serve. Most commentary so far has…

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NDIS access denied: even without the reforms, things are getting tougher for NDIS applicants

The big picture: A recent Administrative Review Tribunal (Tribunal) decision in Sydney suggests that it’s getting harder for applicants to meet the disability access criteria to become an NDIS part…

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“Why Would Someone like Me with DLD Want to Sit in a Room and Talk? How Would that Make Me Feel Better?!” Developmental Language Disorder and the Language Demands of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy - Inte...

This article addresses two crucial questions: what are the language demands of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), and how can CBT be more accessible to people with language difficulties? These quest...

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