Ellen Panjari is the Manager of Early Intervention at Taralye. Taralye is an Early Intervention Agency providing a home, community and centre based program to families of young hearing impaired children throughout Victoria.
She has been a Teacher of the Deaf for more than 29 years.
Ellen worked with Indigenous children and their families in Darwin and remote communities in the Northern Territory, as well as working within the Deafness Studies Unit at the University of Melbourne contributing to a range of research projects.
As the Parent Adviser for Preschool Hearing Impaired Children, Ellen was involved in the provision of Early Intervention services to families for more than 15 years in both the Western and Northern Metropolitan regions of Melbourne.
Ellen has a specific interest in working collaboratively with families from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse background and in particular, supporting the needs of newly diagnosed families.