PRECI will

1.   provide a national network connecting early childhood intervention practitioners and researchers with a focus on supporting collaborative research, knowledge sharing and peer support.

2.   provide early child hood intervention professionals, community organisations, researchers, higher education institutions and policymakers with an authoritative source of information about best practice in early childhood intervention

3.   identify, develop, promote and raise awareness of advances in effective models of service delivery to ensure consistent implementation of best practice for young children and families

4.   promote a national approach to coordinated and comprehensive pre-service, in-service and post-graduate training opportunities for professionals working with children with developmental delay and disability, and their families and related mainstream services, on contemporary and evidence-informed practices

5.    develop a national research framework and conduct research projects to advance and inform early childhood intervention within Australia 

6.    promote interdisciplinary collaborations to ensure advances in research and translation of research into practice 

7.    provide nationally coordinated and timely responses to federal policy, funding and service delivery guidelines to support consistent contemporary practice in early childhood intervention

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OUR PRECI COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Denise Luscombe
ECI Consultant, Director Postural Care Australia, Paediatric Physiotherapist

Dr Susana Gavidia-Payne
Adjunct Associate Professor, Educational and Developmental Psychology, RMIT University


Paula Buttigieg
Executive Director
WizeTherapy, Senior Occupational Therapist

  John Forster
CEO Noah’s Ark Inc



Dr Christine Johnston
Associate Professor
School of Education,
Western Sydney University 

Dr Anoo Bhopti
Senior Lecturer, 
Monash University,
Dept of Occupational Therapy



Dr Tim Moore
Senior Research Fellow, The Centre for Community Child Health,The Royal Children’s Hospital



 Megan Fox 
National Early Childhood Specialist, Mission Australia

Ros McAulay
Senior Speech Pathologist 

Dr Kerry Bull
Early Childhood & Early Intervention Consultant

Leigh Dix
Senior Occupational Therapist

Kerry Dominish

CEO EarlyEd,Speech Pathologist




 Erica Miles
Early Childhood Consultant

For further information, please contact the Conference Secretariat:

DC Conference and Association Management 

Suite 103. Level 1, 3-5 West Street, North Sydney NSW 2060, Australia
PO Box 637, North Sydney 2059

P: +612 9954 4400 E: preci@dcconferences.com.au