by dbak580 | Jul 2, 2023 | Events, Healthy Weight, News, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning, Updates
This is a very interesting talk that is well worth attending and is happening tomorrow Tuesday 4th July 5.30pm -7.00pm and A Better Start is excited to be a part of this years New Zealand Science Festival. With our very own A Better Starts’ Deputy Director...
by dbak580 | Jun 23, 2023 | Events, Media release, News
A Better Start is excited to be a part of this years New Zealand Science Festival. With our very own A Better Starts’ Deputy Director Professor Barry Taylor joining Healthier Kiwis: A National Science Challenges Panel to discuss how can we improve the health and...
by dbak580 | Jun 15, 2023 | Healthy Weight, News, Peer reviewed publication, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning, Updates
Don’t miss out on this upcoming webinar reporting the latest research results on screen time across the preschool years. Dr. Megan Gath from the University of Canterbury’s Child Well-being Research Institute will present data from a recently published research...
by dbak580 | Jun 13, 2023 | Healthy Weight, News, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning
Prime is an energy drink owned by YouTubers Logan Paul and KSI who between them have 78 million followers. Their latest product Prime is banned in Aotearoa because it contains an illegally high amount of caffeine. But that hasn’t stopped children and adolescents...
by dbak580 | Jun 5, 2023 | Big Data, News, Newsletter, Peer reviewed publication, Successful Literacy and Learning
This study published in ASHA Publications aimed to elucidate the nature of the relationship between the development of decoding and encoding skills in the first year at school. The foundational literacy skills of one hundred eighty 5-year-old children were examined on...
by dbak580 | May 30, 2023 | Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Updates
Beyond Smokers and their Lungs “With complex modelling of new data, we are further analysing the decline in the number of preschool children who are overweight and obese. This decline is unlike any other country in the world and importantly has occurred almost...