Making friends with Minecraft: Determining optimal intensity and modality for a game-based intervention.
Chief Investigator: Dr Abirami Thirumanickam [Early Career Researcher] Funding Amount: $39,995 Recipient: The University of Adelaide Overview: We will use Minecraft®, a popular, off-the-shelf digital game as an accessible intervention platform
Cool Brain Hall of Fame to help children understand and appreciate learning differences.
Media Release : Flinders University Sharing the real-life stories of actors, authors, musicians, scientists and others will help challenge the attitudes of children towards learning differences, thanks to a new
Healthy Development Adelaide (HDA) and Novita forum : Neuro-affirmative practice for Autistic children and youth.
Held on Wednesday 30 November, 5.30-7.30pm, Napier 102 lecture theatre, 1st floor, Napier Building, North Terrace, University of Adelaide. Best practice approaches supporting neurodiversity (and autism specifically) have undertaken significant change
The Cool Brain Hall of Fame: Using examples from popular culture to de-stigmatise learning differences in primary schools
Chief Investigator: Dr Amy Wyatt Funding Amount : $94,995 Recipient: Flinders University Overview: Around 15-20% of South Australian children have a learning difference such as dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, autism or attention-deficit hyperactivity
Can LEGO® robotics therapy reduce anxiety and improve social skills among teenagers on the spectrum?
29 November 2021 Caring Futures Institute News, Flinders University A collaborative research project involving Flinders Caring Futures Institute researchers and Autism SA examining the effects of LEGO® robotics therapy on
Autistic kids sleep study a world first
At the age of eight, Chase Mazurek has rarely had a good night’s sleep. He has autism and ADHD and has trouble falling asleep, wakes in the night and gets Evaluation of the Autism Detection in Early Childhood–Virtual (ADEC-V)
Chief Investigator: Professor Robyn Young Funding Amount : $85,319 Recipient: Flinders University Overview: Although signs of autism emerge in infancy, children often do not receive a diagnosis until much later, with an