The Australian Early Development Index (AEDI) is a population measure of children’s development in communities across Australia.
The AEDI gives us a national picture of children’s health and development – a first for Australia. The results pinpoint strengths in the community as well as what can be improved.
The AEDI provides information to help us build and strengthen our communities for our children and for Australia.
For more information on the AEDI refer to the website (www.aedi.org.au) or contact the AEDI coordinator for Tasmania.
The AEDI video is used with the permission of the AEDI National Support Centre.
A State Snapshot
A Snapshot of Early Childhood Development in Tasmania This AEDI Tasmanian report, released in May 2011, shows the AEDI results at the local community level through individual suburbs or grouped suburbs. For the first time 99% of Tasmanian local communities, that have children in the first full-time year of school residing in them, have online, publicly accessible information to support state, regional and community decision making.
A National Snapshot
In 2009, the AEDI was completed nationwide for the first time. Between 1 May and 31 July, information was collected on 261,203 children (97.5 per cent of the estimated national five-year-old population). View the National Report [PDF 3MB]
A Community Snapshot
The first release of community data are now available. Communities across Australia now have a comprehensive picture of the early childhood development outcomes for children in their community. For more information visit the Results page on the AEDI website.
Tassie's young on track
Media release on the Tasmanian AEDI results.
The Tasmanian AEDI Coordinator is Sally Giacon. Contact 6233 7795 or aedi@education.tas.gov.au.
A partnership between the Centre for Community Child Health (at The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne and a key research centre of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute) and the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Perth. For general information visit www.aedi.org.au.
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This page was last modified on 14th May 2012. The URL for this page is: http://www.education.tas.gov.au/earlylearning/aedi.
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