Petrea Cahir
Research Officer
Population Health
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia
Biography
Petrea is a research coordinator and PhD Candidate on the Aboriginal Families Study. She is coordinating and investigating language development in the children participating in the Aboriginal Families Study. Petrea is a speech pathologist and linguist and also works clinically at the Royal Children's Hospital. Petrea has previously worked on a number of large longitudinal cohort studies at MCRI, primarily as research coordinator on the Early Language in Victoria Study, a prospective longitudinal study investigating the speech, language and literacy developmental pathways of Victorian children. Petrea is interested in research that aims to improve health equity for hard to reach groups, particularly Aboriginal families and other groups from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. She also has research interests in neurodevelopmental disorders and optimising speech and language outcomes for children with disabilities.
Research Interest
neurodevelopment, Aboriginal health, child speech and language development
Publications
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Reilly S, Reid J, Skeat J, Cahir P, Mei C, Bunik, and the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine M. ABM Clinical Protocol# 17: Guidelines for breastfeeding infants with cleft lip, cleft palate, or cleft lip and palate, Revised 2013. Breastfeeding Medicine. 2013 Aug 1;8(4):349-53.
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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. 2017 Jun 14.
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Cahir P. Examining culturally valid language assessments for Indigenous children. ACQ. 2011;13:120-5.
