Today Associate Professor Sharon Goldfeld visited Charles Sturt University in Bathurst as a guest of the Collaborative Research Network. Sharon is a paediatrician and public health physician at
The Royal Children’s Hospital Centre for Community Child Health (CCCH) and a
Research Fellow at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Sharon has established a child health equity and policy research group including the Australian Early Development Index Research Program at CCCH with a focus on children with additional health and developmental needs, mental health and children with diverse language backgrounds.
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| Associate Professor Sharon Goldfeld (left centre) with members of the CRN |
The AEDI is a community-based population measure of young children's
development in their first year of school, based on questionnaires completed by
kindergarten/prep teachers for each child in their class. Five key areas of
early childhood development are assessed:
- physical health
and wellbeing
- social
competence
- emotional
maturity
- language and
cognitive skills (school-based)
- communication
skills and general knowledge
The AEDI website provides reports and
community profiles for these five areas, based on data collected in 2009. Data
from the 2012 collection will be made available in 2013. The AEDI information can be found here
(This blog was based on published information about the workshop)
