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Healthy Trajectories
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We are Healthy Trajectories, a child & youth disability research hub at the Melbourne Children's Campus: promoting health & participation across the lifespan.
https://healthy-trajectories.com.au/
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This week, we'd like to draw attention to a presentation given by Nicole and Christine in November at the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning's 2025 Symposium.
#ARClinkage #disabilityresearch #disabilitysupport #accessiblespaces #designaccessibility
Research Presentation Spotlight. Designing Learning Spaces for Neurodiversity and Disability. Dr Nicole Merrick. Young people with disability can face barriers in taking part fully in learning and school life. This project aims to understand how the spaces at school can influence student participation. Making school buildings more accessible can help all students participate and enjoy school to the fullest. This study allowed students with disability put forward their thoughts about learning spaces in photo form, and told us how school design impacted their life at school.
December 12, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Yesterday marked the International Day or People with Disability. We were honored to hear Hannah McPierzie share her journey following her diagnosis with Neurofibromatosis Type 2. Let’s work together to foster disability-inclusive societies! #IDPWD2025.
In case you missed it. International Day of People with Disability. 3rd December 2025. This year’s theme was ‘Fostering disability inclusive societies for advancing social progress.’ Hannah McPierzie shared her experiences with an insightful presentation about communication, accessibility and patient wellbeing at the RCH Grand Rounds yesterday.
December 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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In preparation for IDPwD on December 3rd, we would like to remind everyone that we will be hosting a Grand Rounds at The Royal Children's Hospital at 12:30pm, featuring a presentation from disability rights advocate, Ms Hannah McPierzie. Join us for a free light lunch afterwards to meet Hannah!
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Our Director, Professor Christine Imms has been invited to speak at REEaCh Centre Webinar (Nov 18th, 5:30 to 6:30pm) about the development of the new National Best Practice Framework for Early Childhood Intervention. If you are interested in attending, please register through this link:
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: REEaCh Centre Webinar: Introducing the new National Best Practice Framework for Early Childhood Intervention. After registering, you will receive a confirma...
Introducing the new National Best Practice Framework for Early Childhood Intervention Delivered by Prof Christine Imms This presentation will describe the development of the new National Best Practi...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Ingrid Sutherland is recruiting support or healthcare workers to participate in a study of in-home support or respite care for children with a physical and intellectual disability and medically complex care needs.
#disabilityresearch #disabilitysupport #disabilitycarers
Experience of delivering in-home support or respite care
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October 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Our Director, Prof Christine Imms, was in Canberra this week contributing to national conversations about the Thriving Kids initiative.
Christine highlighted the key contribution that the new National Best Practice Framework for Early Childhood Intervention can make to the design of Thriving Kids.
October 31, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Connected Care for Thriving Kids

Join a free webinar hosted by the National Child and Family Hubs Network on the vital role of Child and Family Hubs. Register now: mcri.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Date: Tuesday 28 October
Time: 12:30pm-1:30pm AEDT
Cost: Free
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Connected Care for Thriving Kids. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join the National Child and Family Hubs Network for a free webinar on the vital role of Child and Family Hubs in connecting families with local, high-quality, and integrated services and supports. We'...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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We are delighted to announce that the new National Best Practice Framework for Early Childhood Intervention has been approved for publication by the Commonwealth Government!

Join us for our upcoming public seminar on Thursday 16 October. Registration is via Humanitix at: bit.ly/471oFvJ
Launch - National Best Practice Framework for Early Childhood Intervention
Be the first to hear from Prof. Christine Imms and the Consortium team as they explain the Framework’s development, content, supporting tools and resources.
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October 7, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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This week we would like to highlight an article exploring the aspects of an online platform where families and health professionals could share their health goals for a child with disability.
You can read the article online for free if you're interested!
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September 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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John Carey and his team adapted an established approach called ‘Experience Based Co-design’, to collaborate online with young people with disability, parents and community partners. Read the abstract here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Adapting Experience‐Based Co‐Design to Disability Research: Co‐Producing the CycLink Co‐Design Study
Introduction Participatory methods like experience-based co-design (EBCD) can be used to develop complex interventions, but may need adaptations when co-designers include young people with disabilit...
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September 9, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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CYDA has published a survey asking for people's thoughts on Thriving Kids. Follow the link to take the survey.
#thrivingkids #CYDA
What do you think about Thriving Kids? 🤔
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August 29, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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This weekend is the Teddy bear hospital winter check up! This is a free event where children can bring along a toy to a toy hospital set up in Chadstone shopping centre and get them checked over by medical students and volunteers.
#freefamilyevents #teddybearhospital
Teddy Bear Hospital. Winter check-up. August 23 to 24, 2025. Chadstone Shopping Centre.
August 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Congrats Dr Sarah Knight! The National Disability Research Partnership has awarded a grant to her project which aims to support psychological safety for children with 'behaviours of concern' partnering with @yellowladybugs.bsky.social and Heads Together for ABI. Learn more: go.unimelb.edu.au/n5cp
July 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Are you the parent or carer of a child (including adult children) with a genetic neurodevelopmental condition?
Join Nurture Nextgen for a half-day workshop to help shape a digital tool for other families as they learn about their child's genetic diagnosis.
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Supporting parents of children with genetic neurodevelopmental conditions
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June 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Our team member Nicole is running a research project about learning and belonging for students with disability in schools.
Please follow this link to find out more, or sign up for the project:
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#disabilityresearch#disabilityinschools
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June 2, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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SNAICC is offering travel subsidies for ACCO or ACCHO workers to attend SNAICC'25. This event happens in October of 2025 in Meanjin/Brisbane. SNAICC has a range of subsidies available depending on where nominees are traveling from. Visit this link to learn more:
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SNAICC ‘25 - Travel Subsidy Eligibility Guidelines
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May 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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We would like to share that applications are open for The Jennifer Fitzgerald research grant. It allows up to $30,000 to be dedicated to successful applications. More information is available on the Scope page:
www.scopeaust.org.au/news/applica...
#disabilityresearch #researchgrants
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May 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Coming up this weekend in Melbourne is the Sourcekids disability expo for 2025.
This is a free event at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.
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#disabilitysupport #sourcekidsdisabilityexpo2025
Melbourne 2025 - Source Kids
When: Friday 11 April 2025 – 10am to 4pm Saturday 12 April 2025 – 10am to 4pm Where: Melbourne Convention …
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April 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Healthy Trajectories is proud to have collaborated with our partners across the Melbourne Children’s Campus and beyond to launch the Disability Identifier.
Read more about it on our website:
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#DisabilitySupport#DisabilityResearch
Disability Identifier – Healthy Trajectories
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March 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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We'd like to take the chance this week to talk more about our work with people who are neurodivergent. The latest review from the ECI review project includes some beautiful quotes directly from neurodivergent young people. Check them out!
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ECI Review | Healthy Trajectories | A Child and Youth Disability Research Hub Healthy Trajectories
Review of best practice in early childhood intervention Researchers from the University of Melbourne are leading a consortium of partners to review best practice in early childhood intervention in Aus...
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March 20, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Happy Neurodiversity celebration week!
No two brains are exactly the same, and this makes our world a better place.
This year, the NWC website is hosting a range of free panels on neurodiversity online. (link below)
Have a wonderful week!
www.neurodiversityweek.com/events
#ncw2025 #neurodiversity
2025 Events Schedule | Neurodiversity Celebration Week
We've created a diverse schedule of events for you to enjoy during Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025! All events are free of charge.
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March 17, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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We want to wish everyone a happy international women's day for 2025. Inspiring women thrive within the fields of STEM, and disability research is no outlier, whether as researchers, consumers, or both. We look forward to highlighting them in the years to come.
#IWD2025
March 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Ingrid Sutherland is currently recruiting parents to participate in a study of in-home support or respite care for children with a physical and intellectual disability and medically complex care needs.
The details of the study can be found on our website:
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March 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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We are delighted to share that Healthy Trajectories team member Dr Nicole Merrick has been awarded funding to investigate how students with disability feel about belonging in school and to find ways to help all students feel like they belong and are included.
#DisabilityResearch#DisabilityInclusion
Grant success for Dr Nicole Merrick and her team – Healthy Trajectories
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January 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Healthy Trajectories is delighted to share that the 2024 Grand Rounds event hosted at the hospital in December is now available to watch free online through the RCH website.
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#grandrounds #IDPwD2024 #disabilitysupport #disabilityresearch
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January 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM