Research
With the support of Sport Australia, Gymnastics Australia has partnered with Victoria University
and the Australian Institute of Sport to start work on gathering an evidence base, to really prove that LaunchPad delivers.
It is a work in progress at the moment and it's going to take us a few years to collect and analyse all the data. If you're one of those folk who don't have the time to wait around, check out some of the research
from Australia and abroad that's already out there. Just to get you started, try the links below. Some really interesting reading, so make yourself a cuppa, scroll through some of the facts and figures and then get out of
that chair and give yourself some time to move!
Australian Government: Department of Health and Ageing
Activity Guidelines for 0 - 5 year olds
Activity Guidelines for 5 - 12 year olds
Discussion paper for the development of recommendations for children's and
youths' participation in health promoting physical activity
Government of Western Australia: Department of Sport and Recreation
Brain boost: Sport and physical activity enhance children's learning
Medibank
The cost of physical inactivity
Articles on research conducted by Professor Richard Telford
Schools with fitter children perform better (ABC, September, 2012)
Exercise important in reducing childhood obesity (ABC, November, 2012)
Physical and Health Education Canada
What is physical literacy?
World Health Organisation
Global recommendations on physicaly activity for health
Action for Healthy Kids
Physical Activity Supports Academic Achievement
Active For Life
Children with poor physical literacy struggle as adults
Physical literacy checklists