AHDA Conference

AHDA organises a scientific conference every two years. The conference serves as a venue for the latest research findings on applied and basic aspects of human development. The conference includes invited and investigator-initiated symposia, lectures, and poster presentations.

The 2009 AHDA conference will be held at Flinders University, South Australia.  The welcome reception will be on the evening of Sunday July 5th and the conference program will run from Monday July 6 to Wednesday July 8.

The call for abstracts will go out in January, 2009.  We anticipate a deadline of 15 February, 2009 and decisions to be emailed by 30 March, 2009.  The abstract submission form will be available on this website from January onwards.

An ISSBD Asia-Pacific Workshop will be held before the conference, on Saturday July 4 and Sunday July 5.  The theme for the workshop is "Human development in the context of movement within and across national boundaries".  Travel scholarships to support the attendance of approximately 23 scholars from the Asia-Pacific region beyond Australia and New Zealand will be made available. A similar number of researchers from Australia and New Zealand will be permitted to participate in the workshop at no registration cost.

AHDA -2007

The 15th AHDA conference was held from Thursday, 5th July to Sunday 8th July, 2007 at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Selected papers are available here for downloading:

• Amon, K. Exploring the use of biofeedback video games to help children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
• Caza, G.A. Learning to recognise relevant, ambient speech: A computational model.
• Cologon, K., Cupples, L. & Wyver, S. The Development of phonological awareness, phonic decoding skills and reading comprehension ability in children who have Down syndrome: Results from an intervention study.
• Baxter, J. & Hayes, A. Days of their lives: Developmental implications and correlates of how four year olds spend their time.
• Hood, K., Knight, J., Champion, P., Clark, C., Woodward, L. & the Canterbury Child Development Team. Social competence of children born very preterm.

AHDA - 2005

The 14th Biennial Conference of AHDA was held in Perth, Western Australia from Tuesday 5th July to Friday 8th of July 2005. Abstracts and selected papers are available here for downloading:

• AHDA Conference 2005 - Abstracts
• Beltman, S. Complex beginnings: Initial formal engagement in sport and music.
• Bornholt, L. Motivation spiral models (MSM) in the context of reading, movement and social activities.
• Bornholt, L. et al., Citizenship as a sense of belonging and identity of place for young adults in rural and urban communities.
• Cashion, L. et al., The multifactorial nature of theory of mind: A structural modelling study.
• Davis, H. Fluid Intelligence and the many faces of executive function
• Earnest, J. & Gillieatt, S. Adolescent refugee perspectives on psychosocial wellbeing.
• Kirkland, J. et al., Dynamic systems: A working model for analyses of social science data.
• Kirkland. J. et al., A model for assessing adult attachment.
• McKillop, D. & Drake, D. Contemporary community views on best outcomes for children of separating parents.
• Pike, L.T. et al., Symposium abstracts Seldom seen and rarely heard: Children's voices in post-divorce decision-making.
• Pike, L.T. et al., Symposium Seldom seen and rarely heard: Children's voices in post-divorce decision-making.
• Pike, L.T. et al., Healthy communities: What have we learned from talking to children?
• Pryor, J. Children in changing family structures.
• Robinson, J. & Farhadi, S. The mental health of child refugees from the Middle-East and their parents: Refugee status and immigration detention
• Runions, K. Who are Pollyanna preschoolers? Developing a "benign attribution bias".
• Sibbel, A. When the dust settles.
• Skouteris, H. & Searl, K. Training 2.5-year-olds to recognise their delayed self-image: Is this possible?
• White, F. Adolescent racial prejudice development: The role of friendship quality and inter-racial contact.