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Speak Out
December 2015
Speech Pathology Australia
continuing professional development news
National Office has a
1300 368 835
number to support members within Australia to have equity
in telephoning National Office for the cost of a local call. When phoning about SPA events, please
have your SPA member number ready to help us to assist you as efficiently as possible.
Registrations remain
open for the CPDlive
online event
Application
of the ICF to Clinical
Practice in Paediatric
Speech-Language
Pathology
on Thursday
10 December,
4-5.30pm AEDT.
Workshop dietary needs
Dietary and Accessibility requirements for Branch CPD
workshops – please let us know so we can best meet
your needs.
If you have specific dietary and/or accessibility
requirements:
• These can be entered when you are registering for
an event and will then remain against your member
record so you don’t have to re-enter them each
time you register.
• If you have had a change to your requirements,
you can edit the information when you next
register by following the prompts in the online
registration process.
CPD program
…
To view events open for online registration, watch out
for the monthly
Events
and
Branch e-News
, and/or
check out the SPA website under
Upcoming Events
,
and/or go to the
webpage
>
SPA News and Events
>
CPD Events
>
CPD Branch Events and CPDLive
.
Earlybird rates are available for registrations up to one
month before the event date, after which an additional
fee of $66 applies post-earlybird close
.
2015 SPA National Tour by
Associate Professor
Jane McCormack
SPA has a strong commitment
to assisting members
to access CPD. We are mindful of the issues facing members in
accessing CPD, and SPA has tried to respond in a variety of ways.
I'll give a bit of further information on some of these, in case you
would like to check out any of these options.
• SPA runs regular 90-minute online CPD events, in conjunction
with CPDLive. You can register to participate in the event live
online or register to view the recording of the live event after it
runs.
• There is an Ethics Package available free on the
SPA website
for members to undertake.
• There is an
Evidence-Based Independent Study Resource
available free on the SPA website for members.
• SPA recognises the professional development that can occur
via social media communities. PSR points can be earned in
activity type W/S for learning via relevant listservs or web-
based discussion, blogs, twitter, Facebook (eg SPA member
communities).
• SPA has a number of online (Facebook) member communities
that are free for members to join/participate in.
• The
CPD Events Library
offers a range of workshop
recordings. (Not all events can be recorded as some do not
lend themselves to recording because of their interactive
nature, and not all speakers give permission for recording).
• There is an Autism Spectrum Disorders Independent Study
Resource available free of charge to members via the
SPA
website
.
• SPA offers traveller's rates for rural and remote members
travelling more than 300km round trip from their home and/or
place of work to a CPD event.
• SPA also aims to run some regional events in rural areas each
year.
• SPA CPD workshop days and lengths are planned. Branches
aim to have workshops on days that abutt weekends to assist
members who may be travelling from interstate or rural areas
to CPD. The bulk of the CPD program is comprised of one and
two-day workshops, so that travel time does not exceed event
time for rural and remote members.
Supporting members’
access to CPD