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PACT now available via telehealth

Paediatric Autism Communication Therapy is now available at CliniKids via telehealth.

Building the foundations of communication

Senior Speech Pathologist Sally Grauaug looks at how to build the foundations of communication with your child.

Is it OK to speak more than one language with my child?

Senior Speech Pathologist Marisa Di Lorenzo looks at social communication and language outcomes for bilingual autistic children.

Lara Goldie

Senior Speech Pathologist

Survey results revealed

Thank you to all the families who took the time to complete the 2025 CliniKids clinic survey. We were overwhelmed by the level of support. Here are the main findings and some feedback about the possibility of using AI in our day-to-day operations.

Mental health seminar

Here you will find follow up information from our autism seminar on mental health and autism.

Evidence that infant and early childhood developmental impairments are associated with hallucinatory experiences: Results from a large, population-based cohort study

Cognitive and motor dysfunction are hallmark features of the psychosis continuum, and have been detected during late childhood and adolescence in youth who report psychotic experiences (PE). However, previous investigations have not explored infancy and early childhood development.

Behavioural and neuropsychological outcomes in children exposed in utero to maternal labour epidural analgesia

Recent studies report conflicting results regarding the relationship between labour epidural analgesia (LEA) in mothers and neurodevelopmental disorders in their offspring. We evaluated behavioural and neuropsychological test scores in children of mothers who used LEA.

The valence-specific empathy imbalance hypothesis of autism: The role of autistic traits, alexithymia, emotion dysregulation, and gender differences

Individuals exhibiting pronounced autistic traits (e.g., social differences and specialised interests) may struggle with cognitive empathy (i.e., the ability to infer others' emotions), although the relationship with affective empathy (i.e., the ability to share others' emotions) is less clear in that higher levels of autistic traits may be linked with increased affective empathy for negative emotions but reduced affective empathy for positive emotions. The current study investigates this empathy profile and whether alexithymia and emotion dysregulation help to explain it.