Speak Out
October 2014
15
SPA CPDLive National Online events
Thank you to all those members who have registered for CPDLive events. We have been gratified by the response, both in terms
of registration numbers and feedback (verbal and written). We thought members may like to see some further information about
the CPDLive events.
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SPA provides opportunities for professional development
to its members via a number of means. Events are offered
online as part of the CPD program, with workshops
continuing to be offered in Branches and via the National
Tour.
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Online events can be attended Live or viewed later via
the Recording. These events are live webcasts that
registrants can view at a PC. After the live presentation,
the recording is available ‘on demand’ for a period of time,
which is determined by SPA.
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This provides opportunities for delivering accessible CPD
that is free of real time or location boundaries and for
providing CPD on discrete topics and specialised areas,
where opening up the event to a national audience increases
the likelihood of reaching a ‘critical mass’ of registrants.
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Topics and speakers for online events have been
identified through a variety of channels, including
Branch feedback, CPD committee planning, member
suggestions, and identification of speakers who have
presented at the SPA Conferences and CPD events.
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The topics have been planned to cover aspects of a wide
variety of areas of practice, on current topics that are
suitable to an online event of 90 minutes, and are relevant
and of interest to a national audience.
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Given high demand and continuing interest, the period
of time that a recording is available has been extended to
6 months after the live event.
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Online events commenced, in conjunction with CPDLive,
in 2014 and to date the events that have run have
included the four events listed below:
Speaker/s
Title
Date of live 90-minute event
Professor Andrew
Whitehouse
What is the DSM-V criteria for autism, and how will it affect clinical
practice?
Wed 26 March 2014
Dr Patricia Eadie
Developmental Pathways to Language Competence and Language
Disorder: Implications for Speech Pathology Practice
Friday 11 April 2014
Professor Liz Ward
Managing Dysphagia via Telepractice: What's the Evidence?
Wednesday 2 July 2014
Mary Woodward
and Natalie Albores
The role of Speech Pathology with clients with mental health
disorders
Thursday 28 August 2014
Future event planning continues including:
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‘A clinical advantage: The art of accent modification within a speech pathology context’ by Tristan Nickless on
Wednesday 19 November 2014, 3.30-5pm – Registrations are now open.
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‘Fluency – Delivery of services via Telepractice’ for early 2015.
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Sharynne McLeod and Sarah Verdon have agreed to present on ‘Linguistic Features of Cultural Difference’ in
February 2015.
Location of registrants
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Registrants have been from both metropolitan and regional locations. Additionally and not shown on the map at the time
of duplication – there have been NT registrants and overseas registrants.
Geographical locations of
registrants for the CPDLive
Events ‘What is the DSM-V
criteria for autism, and how
will it affect clinical practice?’
(left) and ‘Developmental
Pathways to Language
Competence and Language
Disorder: Implications for
Speech Pathology Practice’
(right).
