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Petrea Cahir

Petrea Cahir

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Role Research Coordinator
Research area Population Health
Petrea is a research coordinator and PhD Candidate with the Aboriginal Families Study. Her research describes the language development and storytelling skills of Aboriginal children in urban, regional and remote areas of South Australia. Petrea is a speech pathologist and linguist, previously working clinically at the Royal Children's Hospital and on projects to facilitate the documentation of endangered Aboriginal languages.

Petrea has also worked on several longitudinal cohort studies at MCRI, most recently investigating long-term speech, language and literacy developmental paths of children.

Petrea is interested in research that will improve health equity for families.
Petrea is a research coordinator and PhD Candidate with the Aboriginal Families Study. Her research describes the language development and storytelling skills of Aboriginal children in urban, regional and remote areas of South Australia. Petrea is a...
Petrea is a research coordinator and PhD Candidate with the Aboriginal Families Study. Her research describes the language development and storytelling skills of Aboriginal children in urban, regional and remote areas of South Australia. Petrea is a speech pathologist and linguist, previously working clinically at the Royal Children's Hospital and on projects to facilitate the documentation of endangered Aboriginal languages.

Petrea has also worked on several longitudinal cohort studies at MCRI, most recently investigating long-term speech, language and literacy developmental paths of children.

Petrea is interested in research that will improve health equity for families.

Top Publications

  • Cook, F, Conway, L, Omerovic, E, Cahir, P, Giallo, R, Hiscock, H, Mensah, F, Bretherton, L, Bavin, E, Eadie, P, et al. Infant Regulation: Associations with Child Language Development in a Longitudinal Cohort. The Journal of Pediatrics 233: 90 -97.e2 2021
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  • Conway, LJ, Cook, F, Cahir, P, Mensah, F, Reilly, S, Brown, S, Gartland, D, Giallo, R. Intimate Partner Violence, Maternal Depression, and Pathways to Children’s Language Ability at 10 Years. Journal of Family Psychology 35(1) : 112 -122 2021
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  • Conway, LJ, Cook, F, Cahir, P, Brown, S, Reilly, S, Gartland, D, Mensah, F, Giallo, R. Children’s language abilities at age 10 and exposure to intimate partner violence in early childhood: Results of an Australian prospective pregnancy cohort study. Child Abuse & Neglect 111: 104794 2021
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  • Boyce, JO, Reilly, S, Skeat, J, Cahir, P, Young, M, Noble, L, Reece-Stremtan, S, Bartick, M, Calhoun, S, Dodd, S, et al. ABM Clinical Protocol #17: Guidelines for Breastfeeding Infants with Cleft Lip, Cleft Palate, or Cleft Lip and Palate—Revised 2019. Breastfeeding Medicine 14(7) : 437 -444 2019
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  • Reilly, S, Cook, F, Bavin, EL, Bretherton, L, Cahir, P, Eadie, P, Gold, L, Mensah, F, Papadopoullos, S, Wake, M. Cohort Profile: The Early Language in Victoria Study (ELVS).. International Journal of Epidemiology 47(1) : 11 -20 2018
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