The so-called autism epidemic is being driven by doctors diagnosing more children with less severe symptoms, researchers say, not by more children being born with the condition. A study published in Autism Research, titled Evidence of a reduction over time ...

Researchers have found that the youngest children in classrooms are twice as likely to be diagnosed with ADHD as their older peers, raising concerns that kids are being medicated with amphetamine-based drugs for age-related immaturity. The study found that among ...

Maths should be fun – that’s the message to teachers from one expert. Western Sydney University’s associate professor Catherine Attard, an expert in primary maths education, said fun is the best medicine for relieving maths boredom. “When children are actually ...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated in 2014-15 that 158,000 Australians had type 1 diabetes. This is up from the same survey by the ABS in 2011-12, where 113,400 Australians were reported as having the condition. Furthermore, according to the ...

The parents of children born in 2017 may have to fork out $487,083 to put their child through K to 12 private schooling. This is the estimated national average bill for a private education by the latest iteration of the ...

Parents and teachers are being warned to be vigilant about asthma as they prepare for the new school year. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare data shows there is a spike in emergency department visits due to asthma in the ...

Parents who give their children alcohol double their kids’ chances of taking up drinking but decrease the risk of them binge drinking, new research has found. The study followed 2,000 students in year 7, and their parents, for four years ...

A dispute between experts has emerged on whether Australian schools should adopt the same Year 1 phonics check currently being conducted in the UK. Phonics refers to the relationship between sounds people hear in spoken language and words seen in ...

When a child gets seriously sick their healthcare takes precedence and, by necessity, their schooling is pushed to the sidelines. This was what Megan Gilmour, a mother from Canberra, saw happen to her son when he battled a two year illness, ...

Electronics giant Samsung and the University of Canberra have entered into a research partnership to find out how spatial reasoning can improve STEM education. Spatial reasoning refers to a person’s ability to visualise three-dimensional objects. For example, one uses spatial ...