Helpful Links & Resources
Children’s development and parenting sites
- Australian parenting website
- Beyond Blue – Great information on depression
- Brainwave.org.au – Comprehensive information on paediatric brain illnesses
- Playgroup Tasmania – includes toy library information
- Parenting Research Centre
- Aust Government Family Assistance Office
- Siblings Australia
- Livewire – supportive, safe, on line communities with entertainment, chat, music and games for kids and young people living with a serious illness or disability and their parents.
- Royal Children’s Hospital (Melbourne)
- CCCH Centre for Community Child Health
- Children’s Hospital Westmead (Sydney)
- Parents/factsheets
- Kidsafe Australia
- Australian Human Rights Commission
- Association for Children with a Disability
- Association for Children with Disability, Tasmania
- Canchild Centre for Childhood Disability Research (Canada)
- Novitatech – Assistive technology for people with disability
- Australian Paediatric Research Network
- Website about rare conditions
Prem baby sites
- Miracle Babies – This website is based in NSW and was started by parents of prem babies. Good resources for parents.
- Information for parents who have a premature baby
- Victorian website on prematurity
- Lil’ Aussie Prems
Cerebral Palsy
- Cerebral Palsy Tasmania
- Cerebral Palsy Australia
- Cerebral Palsy League Queensland
- Aus ACPDM – Australasian Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Departmental Medicine
- The Spastic Centre NSW
- Scope Victoria
- Novita Children’s Service and technology service, South Australia
Autism
- Autism Association of Western Australia
- FaHCSIA (Aust Govt) – Helping Children With Autism program and funding
- Autism South Australia
- Autism Tasmania website
- ASPECT – Autism Spectrum Australia (NSW)
- Autism information for parents dealing with new diagnosis
