In this week’s episode, SPA’s Senior Advisor – Mental Health and Trauma, Laura Caire, chats with Sarah Verdon, Associate Professor in Speech and Language at Charles Sturt University. Sarah explores the importance of considering adverse childhood experiences (ACE’s) when assessing the communication development of children.

Please follow this link to access the ACE questionnaire mentioned in this episode:

https://www.goodsky.com.au/adverse-childhood-experience/#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20ACE%20Questionnaire,mental%20health%20or%20substance%20abuse.

Please follow this link to access the Harvard University brain architecture lab:

https://developingchild.harvard.edu/science/key-concepts/brain-architecture/

Please follow this link to access Nadine Burke Harris’s TED talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95ovIJ3dsNk

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We recognise that the health and social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are grounded in continued connection to culture, country, language and community, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

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