Assoc Prof Doug Shelton

Developmental paediatrician, Child Development Service, Gold Coast University Hospital

[Assoc Prof Doug Shelton @DShelt]

@NigelStobbs 90% of kids in WA youth detention had brain impairments. A product of systemic failures in health, education, child protection, disabilities. Populism = let’s lock up kids whose brains don’t work properly. Crack downs have been tried – they don’t work!

[Assoc Prof Doug Shelton @DShelt]

@JPHowcroft maybe simpler if the Wallabies just forfeit the next Bledisloe and save their energy for something more productive

[Assoc Prof Doug Shelton @DShelt]

@MikeFrancis59 @cassdiva1 @normanswan I am a practising paediatrician (for the last 30 years). Regardless of whether Norman is practising he is still on top of his game.

[Assoc Prof Doug Shelton @DShelt]

@mdavisqlder @CrippsKyllie @drcbond What is the plan/ strategy that should have been?

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FASD Awareness Day at RCH Melbourne. #FASDVic, #FASD

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@DrNatashaReid @APSAD_DAR @UQMedicine Well done Tash

[Assoc Prof Doug Shelton @DShelt]

Wow - amazing work Aunty Joan https://t.co/Nv96B0w1Lo

[Dianne Shanley @DrDianneShanley]

Thank-you Aunty Joan, words cannot express my gratitude. This art tells the story of the journey we have taken together on our project❤️

[Dianne Shanley @DrDianneShanley]

Good-bye Mt Isa. No PhD teaches what I have learned this week. Thank-you to all who welcomed me and enhanced my cultural competence. Still so much to learn... I can’t wait.

[FASD Greater Manchester @FasdGM]

#HearOurVoices NOFAS-UK Chief Executive Sandy Butcher spoke today at the Royal Society of Medicine's meeting on Understanding NDPAE/FASD - She urged the professionals to listen to the voices of those with FASD and those supporting them. https://t.co/QCAFE1zRzK

[Assoc Prof Doug Shelton @DShelt]

@CCCH_AU @HarrietHiscock @MCRI_for_kids @abcnews True - and the next question is why are they anxious or depressed?

[Assoc Prof Doug Shelton @DShelt]

We see this all the time in FASD. Children are frequently judged to be willfully difficult on the assumption of average neurocognitive skills. The truth is they have a neurocognitive impairment, often multiple,and are responding to the chronic anxiety of inflated expectations. https://t.co/7HcuVZj3zS

[Think:Kids @ThinkKids]

Teaching #NatCon18 attendees a different way to view challenging behavior. Fact: chronic challenging behaviors are linked w/deficits in areas of neuro-cognitive skills.#KidsDoWellIfTheyCan https://t.co/r6rSb5YjST

[Dianne Shanley @DrDianneShanley]

Shifting how we provide Paediatric services to young kids on the Gold Coast. Our recently funded innovative service delivery model has been launched. Proud to be part of the ’Early and Quick Specialist Child Development Service’. @DShelt @GC_Health @GCPHN @Griffith_Health

[Assoc Prof Doug Shelton @DShelt]

Can’t think of anyy other health interventions that return 13%? https://t.co/X7d4euzpwD

[Prof. James Heckman @heckmanequation]

Eight guiding principles for effective investments in early childhood development. https://t.co/RWYhQJEyqI

[Assoc Prof Doug Shelton @DShelt]

At Comm Games Rugby 7s

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Are us clinician all just remediation junkies when the evidence suggests we should be prevention junkies?? https://t.co/V5hBFEeahK

[Prof. James Heckman @heckmanequation]

"Invest in prevention, not remediation. Invest in flourishing lives, not in correcting problems after they appear." Comprehensive, early childhood development is key to later success in education and life. Learn more: https://t.co/U5fhzA9EYK

[Assoc Prof Doug Shelton @DShelt]

@GC_Health Gold Coast leading the way ....again!

[Assoc Prof Doug Shelton @DShelt]

Great night at Comm Games swimming with team from @griffith_health

[Assoc Prof Doug Shelton @DShelt]

@VirginAustralia self check in down at Sydney. Slow slow slow slow

[Assoc Prof Doug Shelton @DShelt]

@DrDianneShanley Frequently we find with new FASD diagnoses it shifts the school perception from “won’t” ( willful disobedience) to “can’t” (brain based disability) which then allows a more empathetic approach pitched to the level of the child’s ability and not chronological age.

[Assoc Prof Doug Shelton @DShelt]

Oh come on ball tampering has a long recent history with multiple payers (inc RSA) recently sprung. Just fine him, get on with it and confine the rest of the hyperbole to the Centre for Confected Outrage. #sandpapergate