{"id":1917,"date":"2016-03-10T02:49:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T02:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2018-12-18T12:16:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T01:16:42","slug":"in-the-media-invest-early-in-children-rather-than-play-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2016\/03\/10\/in-the-media-invest-early-in-children-rather-than-play-catch-up\/","title":{"rendered":"In the media: &#8216;Invest early in children rather than play catch-up&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday 10 March, Professor Sharon Goldfeld spoke on the ABC&#8217;s Life Matters radio program about the latest Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) results.<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 results represents the third set of national data on children&#8217;s development in Australia. The Centre for Community Child Health lead the first and second data collections on Australia\u2019s children. Now, the Centre is a leader in terms of Australian Early Development Census research; recent work has examined children\u2019s mental health outcomes and how bilingual Australian children are faring as they start primary school.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Interestingly, the language and cognitive domain has improved over time, and the other domains have stayed pretty stable&#8217;, Professor Goldfeld said.<\/p>\n<p>To hear more about the 2015 results and what this means for Australia&#8217;s future prosperity, <a href=\"https:\/\/radio.abc.net.au\/programitem\/pgQmVyweRG?play=true\">listen to the podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aedc.gov.au\/resources\/reports\">Read the 2015 AEDC National Report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Sharon Goldfeld spoke on the ABC&#8217;s Life Matters program about the latest Australian Early Development Census results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":1918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5937,5939],"tags":[11966,11949,11967],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","category-research-and-programs","tag-aedc","tag-early-childhood-development","tag-sharon-goldfeld"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","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=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions\/1921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}