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Towards an integrated model for child and family services in central Australia
Author(s) -
Ah Chee Donna,
Boffa John D,
Tilton Edward
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja16.00385
Subject(s) - citation , history , library science , art history , media studies , sociology , computer science
This evidence indicates that we should not wait to intervene until a child is ready for school at around 5 years of age. By this stage, children have passed many developmental gateways for language acquisition, selfregulation and cognitive function, and their developmental trajectories are set. Of course, developmentally challenged children must be provided with appropriate services during their school years and later in life, but such interventions require increasing amounts of resources (Box 1) and produce diminishing returns as the child gets older.