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Child Care News for Parents & Carers
March 30, 2016
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With all the talk about flexible work options, we examine the reality of working from home with the kids around, also a free new app which may reduce the time to diagnosis for very young kids with ASD.
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| working from home
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Working from home is often seen as the ideal solution for parents who want to return to the paid workforce without putting their child in full time care. Working from home does afford parents more time with their children and more time in the home, it does however come with its own set of challenges.
Parents who maintain paid work in the home, whether it is running a business, freelancing or working for a company from home, will tell you that organisation and flexibility are the keys to success.
However, there are also some tangible changes you can make to your physical environment which will help you achieve professional success in a home based office setting. Once you have made the decision to work from home consider:
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| Reducing the delay to diagnosis for kids with ASD
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A new app which could help parents and carers identify autism earlier has been launched by La Trobe University's Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre (OTARC).
An estimated 1 in 50 children have an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and OTARC's research shows that the majority of these children are not diagnosed until they are four years old, more than two years after they can be reliably diagnosed and receive life-changing intervention.
The new app, ASDetect, which is being made available for free download, aims to shorten the delay to diagnosis to ensure children receive interventions as early as possible.
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