Research Around The World

The link I chose was for Early Childhood Australia. Some of the current international research topics include learning an teaching through play, experiences of accessing quality long day care in northern regional Australia, leading literacy learning through family, and the perspective of indigenous early childhood workers on suporting the engagement of indigenous families in early childhood settings. What I found to be extremely interesting was all the conferences availabe to early childhood educators and parents.  One that caught my attention was the conference on autism/asperger syndrome.  My cousin has a child who was recently diagnosed with autism and her child's physician has only been able to tell her very litte about this syndrome.  I am not aware of these types of conferences being offered where she or I reside.  If so, I would certainly hope that she would attend.  I would also hope that the early childhood educators in MS would attend as well.  In North Brisbane the conference is a full day of immediately useful solutions to assisting young people with austim or asperger syndrome improve communication, social, behavioural and general life skills.  Endless examples are provided of successful interventions to help combat sensory difficulties and stress overload and showcases effective classroom practice and useful resources. I found this to be a very interesting way to help parents and educators with understanding more and being able to assist children with autism or asperger have better quality of lives. Several early childhood educators I have spoken with are fearful of having a child with either syndrome in the classroom because they simply do not know how to care for the child....."when you know better, you do better".