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About two months ago, a very important piece of child development research was published with little fanfare. The research examined whether the amount of time a child spends in child care has an impact…
This is not something I like to talk about much, but I was in fact a child star. Well, by ‘child star’ I mean that I appeared on TV when I was 10-years-old for exactly 4 minutes and 31 seconds. Oh, and…
Over the past few weeks, I have been contacted by several people asking me to put pen to paper about the Newtown shootings, and how some say that the shooter may have had autism. I have resisted for several…
Few people can claim to have the scientific pedigree of Sir Francis Galton (1822 - 1911). Both of Galton’s grandfathers - Samuel ‘John’ Galton and Erasmus Darwin - were key thinkers during the Midlands…
On September the 26th 1992, my life changed forever. It was the week before my 11th birthday, and the West Coast Eagles had just won their first premiership. Football – that’s Aussie Rules for international…
Have you ever driven through an intersection, only to wonder 50 metres down the road whether the traffic lights were indeed green? How about meeting someone at a party, having a rather enjoyable discussion…
Many of us are blessed with two loving parents, a safe and secure home, and the opportunities to be whoever we want to be. What sheer bloody luck. We forget that many children experience such severe abuse…
John Duns Scotus is considered one of the most important Western philosophers of the High Middle Age. He is also, believe it or not, the origin of one of the modern world’s most peculiar forms of child…
Nolan Bushnell was born in 1943, a child of wartime America. The son of a cement contractor, Bushnell dutifully took over the family concrete business at the age of 15 when his father passed away. But…
The Australian current affairs programme Four Corners last night broadcast the documentary Autism Enigma, which profiles an emerging theory of autism. It left me feeling slightly uneasy, and I’ve een asked…