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  1. From QI-disability to QID-12: creating a brief proxy-report measure of quality of life for children with intellectual disability
  2. Using wearables to investigate and understand breathing irregularities in Rett syndrome in Australian population-based and Italian clinic samples
  3. Functional skills in MECP2 duplication syndrome: developmental dynamics and regression
  4. Longitudinal Rett syndrome behaviour questionnaire scores and their associations with genotype and trajectories of mobility, weight and seizure frequency status
  5. Beyond Seizures as an Outcome Measure: A Global Severity Scoring System for CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder
  6. Parent/caregiver perspectives of meaningful improvement in functional domains for people with CDKL5 deficiency disorder: a mixed-methods study
  7. Content Validation of the Communication Inventory Disability–Observer Reported (CID-OR)
  8. Caregivers’ Perceptions of Clinical Symptoms, Disease Management, and Quality of Life Impact in Cases of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase-Like 5 Deficiency Disorder: Cross-Sectional Online Survey
  9. Caregivers’ Perceptions of Clinical Symptoms, Disease Management, and Quality of Life Impact in Cases of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase-Like 5 Deficiency Disorder: Cross-Sectional Online Survey (Preprint)
  10. International workshop: what is needed to ensure outcome measures for Rett syndrome are fit-for-purpose for clinical trials? June 7, 2023, Nashville, USA
  11. Measuring the burden of epilepsy hospitalisations in CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder
  12. Associations between genotype, phenotype and behaviours measured by the Rett syndrome behaviour questionnaire in Rett syndrome
  13. Psychometric evaluation of clinician‐ and caregiver‐reported clinical severity assessments for individuals with CDKL5 deficiency disorder
  14. Parent‐reported outcome measures evaluating communication in individuals with rare neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review
  15. Caregiver Perspective of Benefits and Side Effects of Anti-Seizure Medications in CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder from an International Database
  16. Growth patterns in individuals with CDKL5 deficiency disorder
  17. How Families Manage the Complex Medical Needs of Their Children with MECP2 Duplication Syndrome
  18. Genotype and sleep independently predict mental health in Rett syndrome: an observational study
  19. Australian children living with rare diseases: health service use and barriers to accessing care
  20. Can telehealth increase physical activity in individuals with Rett syndrome? A multicentre randomized controlled trial
  21. Correction to: Factors influencing the attainment of major motor milestones in CDKL5 deficiency disorder
  22. “What about us?”‐ the drawbacks of current bruxism assessment criteria in evaluating vulnerable groups
  23. Factors influencing the attainment of major motor milestones in CDKL5 deficiency disorder
  24. Modelling quality of life in children with intellectual disability using regression trees
  25. Daytime sleepiness and emotional and behavioral disturbances in Prader-Willi syndrome
  26. A brief history of MECP2 duplication syndrome: 20-years of clinical understanding
  27. Enablers and barriers in dental attendance in Rett syndrome: an international observational study
  28. Improving clinical trial readiness to accelerate development of new therapeutics for Rett syndrome
  29. Devising a Missing Data Rule for a Quality of Life Questionnaire—A Simulation Study
  30. Influences on the trajectory and subsequent outcomes in CDKL5 deficiency disorder
  31. The perceived effects of cannabis products in the management of seizures in CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder
  32. Optimal interpregnancy interval in autism spectrum disorder: A multi‐national study of a modifiable risk factor
  33. Oral health care and service utilisation in individuals with Rett syndrome: an international cross‐sectional study
  34. Oral health education and promotion in special needs children: Systematic review and meta‐analysis
  35. Implementing telehealth support to increase physical activity in girls and women with Rett syndrome—ActivRett: protocol for a waitlist randomised controlled trial
  36. Exploring genotype‐phenotype relationships in the CDKL5 deficiency disorder using an international dataset
  37. Functioning, participation, and quality of life in children with intellectual disability: an observational study
  38. Determinants of quality of life in Rett syndrome: new findings on associations with genotype
  39. Modifiable child and caregiver factors that influence community participation among children with Down syndrome
  40. Exploring quality of life in individuals with a severe genetic condition, CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder.
  41. Expanding the phenotype of the CDKL5 deficiency disorder: Are seizures mandatory?
  42. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Mental Health in Children With Neurogenetic Disorders Associated With Intellectual Disability
  43. Predicting Long-Term Survival Without Major Disability for Infants Born Preterm
  44. Assessing the quality, efficiency and usefulness of the Western Australian population-based Intellectual Disability Exploring Answers (IDEA) surveillance system: a surveillance system evaluation
  45. Data Linkage: Canadian and Australian Perspectives on a Valuable Methodology for Intellectual and Developmental Disability Research
  46. Hospital admissions in children with developmental disabilities from ethnic minority backgrounds
  47. Understanding quality of life in adults with Rett syndrome
  48. Patterns of sedentary time and ambulatory physical activity in a Danish population of girls and women with Rett syndrome
  49. Rare disease: a national survey of paediatricians’ experiences and needs
  50. Twenty-Five Year Survival of Children with Intellectual Disability in Western Australia
  51. Exploring quality of life of children with cerebral palsy and intellectual disability: What are the important domains of life?
  52. Use of the ketogenic diet to manage refractory epilepsy in CDKL5 disorder: Experience of >100 patients
  53. Autonomic breathing abnormalities in Rett syndrome: caregiver perspectives in an international database study
  54. Australian children living with rare diseases: experiences of diagnosis and perceived consequences of diagnostic delays
  55. Feasibility of Assessing Diet with a Mobile Food  Record for Adolescents and Young Adults with  Down Syndrome
  56. Maltreatment Risk Among Children With Disabilities
  57. Quantification of walking-based physical activity and sedentary time in individuals with Rett syndrome
  58. Choice making in Rett syndrome: a descriptive study using video data
  59. Impacts of caring for a child with the CDKL5 disorder on parental wellbeing and family quality of life
  60. Qualitative Analysis of Parental Observations on Quality of Life in Australian Children with Down Syndrome
  61. Will C-section Increase Your Baby's risk of Autism
  62. Major advances in the understanding of Rett syndrome over the past 50 years
  63. An Exploration of the Use of Eye Gaze and Gestures in Females With Rett Syndrome
  64. Twenty-five-year survival for aboriginal and caucasian children with congenital heart defects in Western Australia, 1980 to 2010
  65. Seizure variables and their relationship to genotype and functional abilities in the CDKL5 disorder
  66. Building the repertoire of measures of walking in Rett syndrome
  67. Functional abilities in children and adults with the CDKL5 disorder
  68. A qualitative investigation of recovery after femoral fracture in Rett syndrome
  69. Quantitative and qualitative insights into the experiences of children with Rett syndrome and their families
  70. Association of gestational age and growth measures at birth with infection-related admissions to hospital throughout childhood: a population-based, data-linkage study from Western Australia
  71. Expanding the clinical picture of theMECP2Duplication syndrome
  72. Young People with Intellectual Disability Transitioning to Adulthood: Do Behaviour Trajectories Differ in Those with and without Down Syndrome?
  73. Mothers of Children with Autism have Different Rates of Cancer According to the Presence of Intellectual Disability in Their Child
  74. Determinants of sleep disturbances in Rett syndrome: Novel findings in relation to genotype
  75. How can clinical ethics guide the management of comorbidities in the child with Rett syndrome?
  76. Transition to adulthood for young people with intellectual disability: the experiences of their families
  77. Population-Based Prevalence of Intellectual Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorders in Western Australia
  78. The Natural History of Scoliosis in Females With Rett Syndrome
  79. Prevalence and onset of comorbidities in the CDKL5 disorder differ from Rett syndrome
  80. Clinical Guidelines for Management of Bone Health in Rett Syndrome Based on Expert Consensus and Available Evidence
  81. Improved Survival in Down Syndrome over the Last 60 Years and the Impact of Perinatal Factors in Recent Decades
  82. Validating the Rett Syndrome Gross Motor Scale
  83. Conceptualizing a quality of life framework for girls with Rett syndrome using qualitative methods
  84. Surgical fusion of early onset severe scoliosis increases survival in Rett syndrome: a cohort study
  85. Brief Report: Burden of Care in Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder or Intellectual Disability
  86. ViPAR: a software platform for the Virtual Pooling and Analysis of Research Data
  87. Maternal Psychiatric Disorder and the Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder or Intellectual Disability in Subsequent Offspring
  88. Maternal mental health and risk of child protection involvement: mental health diagnoses associated with increased risk
  89. Association of Gestational Age at Birth with Reasons for Subsequent Hospitalisation: 18 Years of Follow-Up in a Western Australian Population Study
  90. Changes in Caesarean Delivery Rates in Western Australia from 1995 to 2010 by Gestational Age at Birth
  91. A validation study of a modified Bouchard activity record that extends the concept of ‘uptime’ to Rett syndrome
  92. Health of mothers of children with intellectual disability or autism spectrum disorder: a review of the literature
  93. Autism risk associated with parental age and with increasing difference in age between the parents
  94. Patterns of Depressive Symptoms and Social Relating Behaviors Differ Over Time From Other Behavioral Domains for Young People With Down Syndrome
  95. Longitudinal bone mineral content and density in Rett syndrome and their contributing factors
  96. Onset of maternal psychiatric disorders after the birth of a child with autism spectrum disorder: A retrospective cohort study
  97. Onset of maternal psychiatric disorders after the birth of a child with intellectual disability: A retrospective cohort study
  98. There is variability in the attainment of developmental milestones in the CDKL5 disorder
  99. The relationship between maternal psychiatric disorder, autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability in the child: a composite picture
  100. Early Mortality and Primary Causes of Death in Mothers of Children with Intellectual Disability or Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Retrospective Cohort Study
  101. Rett syndrome: establishing a novel outcome measure for walking activity in an era of clinical trials for rare disorders
  102. Experience of Gastrostomy Using a Quality Care Framework
  103. Aspects of speech-language abilities are influenced byMECP2mutation type in girls with Rett syndrome
  104. Day occupation is associated with psychopathology for adolescents and young adults with Down syndrome
  105. Influence of the Environment on Participation in Social Roles for Young Adults with Down Syndrome
  106. The trajectories of sleep disturbances in Rett syndrome
  107. Health Conditions and Their Impact among Adolescents and Young Adults with Down Syndrome
  108. The increasing prevalence of reported diagnoses of childhood psychiatric disorders: a descriptive multinational comparison
  109. Family satisfaction following spinal fusion in Rett syndrome
  110. Parental perspectives on the communication abilities of their daughters with Rett syndrome
  111. Prevalence, clinical investigation, and management of gallbladder disease in Rett syndrome
  112. Gastrointestinal Dysmotility in Rett Syndrome
  113. Relationship between family quality of life and day occupations of young people with Down syndrome
  114. Twenty years of surveillance in Rett syndrome: what does this tell us?
  115. “I have a good life”: the meaning of well-being from the perspective of young adults with Down syndrome
  116. Pubertal trajectory in females with Rett syndrome: A population-based study
  117. Assessment and Management of Nutrition and Growth in Rett Syndrome
  118. Hospital Admissions in Children with Down Syndrome: Experience of a Population-Based Cohort Followed from Birth
  119. Community participation for girls and women living with Rett syndrome
  120. Perspectives on hand function in girls and women with Rett syndrome
  121. Resourceful and creative methods are necessary to research rare disorders
  122. Pre-Existing Differences in Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and/or Intellectual Disability: A Review
  123. Using a large international sample to investigate epilepsy in Rett syndrome
  124. Maternal Conditions and Perinatal Characteristics Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability
  125. Application of Population-Based Linked Data to the Study of Intellectual Disability and Autism
  126. Neonatal complications in public and private patients: a retrospective cohort study
  127. Role of public and private funding in the rising caesarean section rate: a cohort study
  128. Hospitalisation rates for children with intellectual disability or autism born in Western Australia 1983–1999: a population-based cohort study
  129. Intellectual disability: population-based estimates of the proportion attributable to maternal alcohol use disorder during pregnancy
  130. Caring for a child with severe intellectual disability in China: The example of Rett syndrome
  131. The CDKL5 disorder is an independent clinical entity associated with early-onset encephalopathy
  132. The phenotype associated with a large deletion on MECP2
  133. The diagnostic odyssey to Rett syndrome: The experience of an Australian family
  134. Initial assessment of the StepWatch Activity Monitor™ to measure walking activity in Rett syndrome
  135. Barriers to diagnosis of a rare neurological disorder in China-Lived experiences of Rett syndrome families
  136. Direct Health Care Costs of Children and Adolescents with Down Syndrome
  137. Trends in the Diagnosis of Rett Syndrome in Australia
  138. Use of equipment and respite services and caregiver health among Australian families living with Rett syndrome
  139. Bone Mineral Content and Density in Rett Syndrome and Their Contributing Factors
  140. Measuring use and cost of health sector and related care in a population of girls and young women with Rett syndrome
  141. Autism and Intellectual Disability Are Differentially Related to Sociodemographic Background at Birth
  142. A Comparison of Autism Prevalence Trends in Denmark and Western Australia
  143. Variation Over Time in Medical Conditions and Health Service Utilization of Children with Down Syndrome
  144. Leisure participation for school-aged children with Down syndrome
  145. The relationship between MECP2 mutation type and health status and service use trajectories over time in a Rett syndrome population
  146. Unpacking the complex nature of the autism epidemic
  147. Survival with Rett syndrome: comparing Rett’s original sample with data from the Australian Rett Syndrome Database
  148. LinkingMECP2and pain sensitivity: The example of Rett syndrome
  149. Level of purposeful hand function as a marker of clinical severity in Rett syndrome
  150. Overview of Health Issues in School-aged Children with Down Syndrome
  151. Stereotypical hand movements in 144 subjects with Rett syndrome from the population-based Australian database
  152. Guidelines for Management of Scoliosis in Rett Syndrome Patients Based on Expert Consensus and Clinical Evidence
  153. InterRett, a model for international data collection in a rare genetic disorder
  154. Impact of Scoliosis Surgery on Activities of Daily Living in Females With Rett Syndrome
  155. Parental experiences of scoliosis management in Rett syndrome
  156. Is the girl with Rett syndrome normal at birth?
  157. Diagnosis of Rett syndrome: can a radiograph help?
  158. Physical and Mental Health in Mothers of Children with Down Syndrome
  159. Sleep problems in Rett syndrome
  160. Seizures in Rett syndrome: An overview from a one-year calendar study
  161. The diagnosis of autism in a female: could it be Rett syndrome?
  162. Medical aspects of school-aged children with Down syndrome
  163. A population-based approach to the investigation of osteopenia in Rett syndrome
  164. Co-occurrence of birth defects and intellectual disability
  165. Predictors of seizure onset in Rett syndrome
  166. Maternal Health in Pregnancy and Intellectual Disability in the Offspring: A Population-Based Study
  167. NTNG1mutations are a rare cause of Rett syndrome
  168. The association between behavior and genotype in Rett syndrome using the Australian Rett Syndrome Database
  169. Rett syndrome in Australia: A review of the epidemiology
  170. Genotype and early development in Rett syndrome: The value of international data
  171. Effectiveness of posthumous molecular diagnosis from a kept baby tooth
  172. p.R270X MECP2 mutation and mortality in Rett syndrome
  173. Association of sociodemographic characteristics of children with intellectual disability in Western Australia
  174. InterRett—The application of bioinformatics to International Rett syndrome research
  175. Mutations of CDKL5 Cause a Severe Neurodevelopmental Disorder with Infantile Spasms and Mental Retardation
  176. Effects ofMECP2 mutation type, location and X-inactivation in modulating Rett syndrome phenotype
  177. Prevalence of intellectual disability in Western Australia
  178. Medium-term open label trial of L-carnitine in Rett syndrome
  179. Sleep dysfunction in Rett syndrome: lack of age related decrease in sleep duration
  180. Guidelines for reporting clinical features in cases with MECP2 mutations
  181. Occurrence of Rett Syndrome in Boys
  182. Medical aspects of school-aged children with Down syndrome
  183. Functional Skills in Self-Care, Mobility, and Communication in 211 School Aged Children with Down Syndrome in Western Australia
  184. Metacarpophalangeal pattern profile and bone age in Rett syndrome: Further radiological clues to the diagnosis
  185. Spinal Fusion Satisfaction Questionnaire