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The idea of the '30 million word gap' suggests families from more socioeconomically advantaged backgrounds engage in more verbal interactions with their child than disadvantaged families. Initial findings from the Language in Little Ones (LiLO) study up to 12 months showed no word gap between maternal education groups.

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Bullying is a widespread global issue, with serious consequences for victimized individuals. The current systematic review is the first to explore the consequences of bullying in early adolescence on psychological and academic functioning across the adolescent period. Five databases were examined, yielding 28 relevant studies.

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A significant number of university students are leaving their institutions before completing their degrees. The present research project applied embeddedness theory, from organizational research, to understand student retention in a tertiary student population, and develop a quantitative instrument that measured university student embeddedness.

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Mining developments are being required to consider how they affect local communities and implement strategies to minimise negative impacts they may be causing

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Comprehensive quantitative and qualitative evaluation of Community Playgroups across Australia

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This paper reports on the quality of early childhood education in rural Indonesia

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Identify risk and protective factors for later childhood-onset and adolescent-onset mental health problems, and other adverse social outcomes

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This paper presents the study protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial to evaluate the impact of a school based program developed to prevent teenage

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Inequalities in child healthy development: some challenges for effective implementation