Two prestigious Churchill Scholarships have been awarded to Centre for Adolescent Health staff in 2010. Dr Cathy Crock is about to leave on her travels overseas and will be examining consumer perspectives around health care.

Dr Nola Firth is involved in innovative research to develop and trial school based resilience programs that assist adolescents who have specific learning disabilities, including dyslexia. She is also a member of the National Dyslexia Working Party (NDWP) reporting to Hon Bill Shorten, Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children’s Affairs. Dr. Firth returned in March this year from her Churchill Fellowship visiting best practice specific learning disabilities programs and school environments in the USA and Canada, and ‘dyslexia friendly’ schools in the UK. She reports that many of the initiatives she saw successfully implemented were included in the recent NDWP recommendations to Hon Bill Shorten. Their implementation in Australia is likely to be both practical and highly beneficial.
Churchill report Dr Nola Firth
Nola Firth article The Age 31 May 2010