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| Gehan RobertsSummaryAffiliation: Royal Children's Hospital Country: Australia Publications
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A cumulative risk factor model for early identification of academic difficulties in premature and low birth weight infantsG Roberts
Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, VIC 3052, Melbourne, Australia
Matern Child Health J 11:161-72. 2007..Premature and low birth weight children have a high prevalence of academic difficulties. This study examines a model comprised of cumulative risk factors that allows early identification of these difficulties...
Growth of extremely preterm survivors from birth to 18 years of age compared with term controlsGehan Roberts
FRACP, Centre for Community Child Health, The Royal Children s Hospital, Flemington Rd, Parkville, 3052, Australia
Pediatrics 131:e439-45. 2013..To determine changes in height, weight, and BMI of extremely preterm (EPT; gestational age <28 completed weeks) survivors from birth to 18 years of age, compared with term controls...- Paediatrician's role in caring for children with learning difficultiesGehan Roberts
Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children s Hospital, Australia
J Paediatr Child Health 48:1086-90. 2012..We thus aimed to examine the consistency between Australian paediatricians': (i) assessment; (ii) referral; and (iii) management of children presenting with learning difficulties... 
Can improving working memory prevent academic difficulties? A school based randomised controlled trialGehan Roberts
Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children s Hospital, Parkville, Australia
BMC Pediatr 11:57. 2011..Our trial will determine whether the intervention is efficacious as a selective prevention strategy for young children at risk of academic difficulties and is cost-effective...- High rates of school readiness difficulties at 5 years of age in very preterm infants compared with term controlsGehan Roberts
The Premature Infant Follow up Program, The Royal Women s Hospital, 20 Flemington Road, Parkville 3052, Australia
J Dev Behav Pediatr 32:117-24. 2011..The aim of this study was to determine the school readiness skills of a cohort of VPT children, compared with term controls... - Developmental coordination disorder in geographic cohorts of 8-year-old children born extremely preterm or extremely low birthweight in the 1990sGehan Roberts
The Premature Infant Follow up Programme at the Royal Women s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Dev Med Child Neurol 53:55-60. 2011.... - Parent-reported health in extremely preterm and extremely low-birthweight children at age 8 years compared with comparison children born at termGehan Roberts
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Royal Women s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Dev Med Child Neurol 53:927-32. 2011.... - Changes in neurodevelopmental outcome at age eight in geographic cohorts of children born at 22-27 weeks' gestational age during the 1990sG Roberts
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Royal Women s Hospital, 20 Flemington Road, Parkville 3052, Australia
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 95:F90-4. 2010..The aims of this study were to determine the outcomes at age eight for a regional cohort of children born at 22-27 weeks during 1997, and to compare their rates of disability with a cohort of the same gestational age born in 1991-1992... - The stability of the diagnosis of developmental disability between ages 2 and 8 in a geographic cohort of very preterm children born in 1997G Roberts
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Royal Women s Hospital, 20 Flemington Road, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
Arch Dis Child 95:786-90. 2010.... - Neurosensory disabilities at school age in geographic cohorts of extremely low birth weight children born between the 1970s and the 1990sGehan Roberts
Premature Infant Follow up Program, The Royal Women s Hospital, Parkville, Australia
J Pediatr 154:829-34.e1. 2009.... - Rates of early intervention services in very preterm children with developmental disabilities at age 2 yearsGehan Roberts
Victorian Infant Brain Study Group, Murdoch Children s Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
J Paediatr Child Health 44:276-80. 2008..This study explores the association of levels of disability at age 2 years with EI services and social risk in a large cohort of very preterm children... - The time and practice challenges of developmental-behavioral pediatrics: an Australian national studyGehan Roberts
Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
J Dev Behav Pediatr 32:368-74. 2011.... - Changing long-term outcomes for infants 500-999 g birth weight in Victoria, 1979-2005L W Doyle
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Royal Women s Hospital, 20 Flemington Road, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 96:F443-7. 2011.... - Attention problems in a representative sample of extremely preterm/extremely low birth weight childrenPeter J Anderson
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Dev Neuropsychol 36:57-73. 2011.... - Underestimation of developmental delay by the new Bayley-III ScalePeter J Anderson
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 164:352-6. 2010..To assess the ability of the third edition of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (Bayley-III) to detect developmental delay in 2-year-old children who were extremely preterm and those carried to term... - Neonatal white matter abnormality predicts childhood motor impairment in very preterm childrenAlicia J Spittle
Victorian Infant Brain Studies, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Dev Med Child Neurol 53:1000-6. 2011..The aim of this study was to assess whether WMA were predictive of all levels of motor impairments in very preterm children... - Outcomes at age 2 years of infants < 28 weeks' gestational age born in Victoria in 2005Lex W Doyle
Newborn Services, Royal Women s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
J Pediatr 156:49-53.e1. 2010..To determine the survival rates and neurosensory outcomes of infants born at gestational age 22-27 weeks in the state of Victoria in 2005 and compare theses data with those for similar infants born in the 1990s... - Social-emotional difficulties in very preterm and term 2 year olds predict specific social-emotional problems at the age of 5 yearsKarli Treyvaud
VIBeS, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Level 5 West Building, Royal Children s Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic, 3052, Australia
J Pediatr Psychol 37:779-85. 2012..This study examined relationships between early social-emotional difficulties and later social-emotional problems, and whether this differed by group (very preterm or term)... - Biological and environmental factors as predictors of language skills in very preterm children at 5 years of ageKelly Howard
Critical Care and Neurosciences, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
J Dev Behav Pediatr 32:239-49. 2011..The primary aim of this study was to examine the contributions of biological and environmental risk factors to language outcomes in very preterm children at 5 years of age... - Family functioning, burden and parenting stress 2 years after very preterm birthKarli Treyvaud
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Victoria, Australia
Early Hum Dev 87:427-31. 2011..Examining rates of difficulties in family functioning following very preterm birth has been a relatively neglected area of research... - Children Attending Paediatricians Study: a national prospective audit of outpatient practice from the Australian Paediatric Research NetworkHarriet Hiscock
Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne, Vic
Med J Aust 194:392-7. 2011..To audit general paediatric outpatient practice in Australia, including consultation characteristics and management patterns, diagnoses, factors associated with diagnoses, and billing practices... - School-age Outcomes of Extremely Preterm or Extremely Low Birth Weight ChildrenEsther A Hutchinson
Victorian Infant Brain Studies, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Flemington Rd, Parkville, Vic, 3052, Australia
Pediatrics 131:e1053-61. 2013..This study examines cognitive, academic, and behavioral outcomes at age 8 years for a regional cohort of EP/ELBW children born in 1997... - Hippocampal shape variations at term equivalent age in very preterm infants compared with term controls: perinatal predictors and functional significance at age 7Deanne K Thompson
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Neuroimage 70:278-87. 2013..This study provides further insight into early hippocampal development and the nature of hippocampal abnormalities in prematurity... - Postnatal corticosteroids and neurodevelopmental outcomes in extremely low birthweight or extremely preterm infants: 15-year experience in Victoria, AustraliaJeanie Ling Cheong
Neonatal Services, Royal Women s Hospital, Level 7, Newborn Research, 20 Flemington Road, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 98:F32-6. 2013..Our aim was to determine the changes over time in the rates of PCS use and 2-year outcomes in ELBW/EPT infants in Victoria, Australia... - The association of growth impairment with neurodevelopmental outcome at eight years of age in very preterm childrenErick Kan
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at The University of Melbourne, Australia
Early Hum Dev 84:409-16. 2008..The relative contributions of poor growth before and after birth in very preterm infants to subsequent outcomes at school-age are not certain...