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Details for Mrs Dinithi Wijedasa
| Personal details | |
| Name | Mrs Dinithi Wijedasa |
| Job title | Research Fellow in School for Policy Studies |
| Department | School for Policy Studies University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | B.A [Hons], M.Sc. |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | infants pre-schoolers screening test primary health care health care pathways to permanence |
| Areas of expertise | I joined the Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies in the School for Policy Studies in April 2007. Before joining the university, I successfully completed a project commissioned by the Ministry of Health in Sri Lanka to standardise a developmental screening test for infants and pre-schoolers. Based on the results of my study, in May 2007, a policy decision was taken by the government of Sri Lanka to introduce the standardised test at national level to the primary health care system as a developmental screening test for infants and pre-schoolers in Sri Lanka. I am currently working on a study examining the pathways to permanence for Black, Asian and Mixed parentage children in the care system. |