{"id":1501,"date":"2014-12-02T02:20:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T02:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2015-01-22T02:23:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T02:23:18","slug":"children-entering-school-with-undiagnosed-special-needs-at-risk-of-poorer-academic-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2014\/12\/02\/children-entering-school-with-undiagnosed-special-needs-at-risk-of-poorer-academic-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Children entering school with undiagnosed special needs at risk of poorer academic performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study, recently published in<em> Academic Pediatrics<\/em>, has found that children entering school with\u00a0an unidentified health problem are at risk\u00a0poorer academic performance in their later primary school years.<\/p>\n<p>The study of 720 children\u00a0from\u00a0Victoria, Queensland and\u00a0Western Australia, looked at health needs and school results from the first year of school through\u00a0to Year 6 and found a significant proportion of children had special health needs when starting\u00a0school, but only 4 per cent were formally identified and a further 17 per cent had emerging\u00a0needs.<\/p>\n<p>Lead researcher and CCCH Associate Professor Dr Sharon Goldfeld has\u00a0called for a coordinated, flexible approach of health and education professionals working together to address young children\u2019s needs, rather than relying on the school system alone.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, read:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"\/\/www.academicpedsjnl.net\/article\/S1876-2859(14)00325-8\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">full paper<\/a>\u00a0in Academic Pediatrics (subscription required)<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/national-affairs\/education\/undiagnosed-health-problems-hold-back-one-in-five-kids\/story-fn59nlz9-1227138837136\" target=\"_blank\">media article i<\/a>n The Australian (subscription required)<\/li>\n<li>The Australian Early Development Census research snapshots:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aedc.gov.au\/Websilk\/Handlers\/ResourceDocument.ashx?id=1cf22264-db9a-6d2b-9fad-ff0000a141dd%20\" target=\"_blank\">Pathways through school for children with additional needs<\/a> (PDF 352KB)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aedc.gov.au\/resources\/detail\/factors-that-help-or-hinder-children-with-additional-needs-to-succeed-at-school\" target=\"_blank\">Factors that help or hinder children with additional needs to succeed at school<\/a> (PDF 878KB)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor Dr Sharon Goldfeld has called for a coordinated approach of health and education professionals to address young children\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5937,5939],"tags":[11966,11967,11965],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-research-and-programs","tag-aedc","tag-sharon-goldfeld","tag-special-healthcare-needs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}