Building on our strengths: Sustaining the Hanen Learning Language and Loving It™ program in an Aboriginal community-led kindergarten

Tracks
20-minute presentations
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Coaching
Collaboration
Early childhood education
Early years education
Quality improvement
Thursday, June 25, 2026
11:20 AM - 11:30 AM
Room 7 & 8, First Floor

Overview

Dr Hannah Stark, Prue Smeaton, Prue Kennedy, Bellah Bennett-Payne, Cheryl Lammonde and Jessica Stewart


Details

⏫ Oral presentation
⏲️ 11:20–11:40 am
⌛ 20-minutes
📚 Assumed knowledge of attendees: Foundational (new/casual familiarity with the topic e.g. treated a single case)


Presenter

Bellah Bennett-Payne

Building on our strengths: Sustaining the Hanen Learning Language and Loving It™ program in an Aboriginal community-led kindergarten

11:20 AM - 11:40 AM

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Prue Kennedy

Building on our strengths: Sustaining the Hanen Learning Language and Loving It™ program in an Aboriginal community-led kindergarten

11:20 AM - 11:40 AM

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Cheryl Lammonde

Building on our strengths: Sustaining the Hanen Learning Language and Loving It™ program in an Aboriginal community-led kindergarten

11:20 AM - 11:40 AM

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Ms Prue Smeaton
Little Seeds Allied Health

Building on our strengths: Sustaining the Hanen Learning Language and Loving It™ program in an Aboriginal community-led kindergarten

11:20 AM - 11:40 AM

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Prue is a passionate Paediatric Speech Pathologist who enjoys finding solutions to problems; through research, clinical practice and training. With varied interests in upskilling early educators, infant feeding and early communication development, Prue is never short of a project or idea to explore and implement. Prue delivers workable, realistic solutions for people of a high clinical standard. Her research reflects this passion - measuring the impact of real world interventions on everyday people.
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Dr Hannah Stark
University Of Melbourne

Building on our strengths: Sustaining the Hanen Learning Language and Loving It™ program in an Aboriginal community-led kindergarten

11:20 AM - 11:40 AM

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Hannah Stark is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Research in Effective Education in Early Childhood (REEaCh) Center at the University of Melbourne. Her research is about the implementation and sustainment of programs that support language and learning in early childhood settings across Australia.

Session chair

Erin West
Manager, Policy & Advocacy
Speech Pathology Australia


Student volunteer(s)

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Sharene Min Min Chia

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Jade Kinnear
Griffith University Student

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