Speech Pathology Bundle (Essentials + Early Release Core)

Speech Pathologist

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Why choose this course?

Essentials offer the key concepts, practice principles and frameworks in early intervention for speech pathologists working with infants with cerebral palsy and their families. Building on these essential knowledge and skills the core modules focus on specific communication and feeding interventions.

These essential and core modules are requirements to gain CPAdvance™ Accredited Practitioner, for speech pathology.

In 2026, speech pathologists can look forward to the final release of modules including the remaining core modules of home programs, cognitive training and interactive reading, as well as a range of electives including switching and sleep.

Modules included:

CPAdvance: An introduction	Upon completion, learners will understand the three key best practice principles of early intervention and its application to clinical scenarios.
Understanding CP in the early years	Upon completion, learners will have an established foundational knowledge of cerebral palsy including diagnostic pathways, types, typographies and prognostic trajectories.
Goal Setting	Upon completion, learners will develop knowledge and skills in using the Rehabilitation Evidence-Based Decision Making (READ) model when goal setting with families.
Approaches to assessment for infants with cerebral palsy	Upon completion, learners will demonstrate an understanding of appropriate assessments to administer in early intervention, how to interpret assessment information and provide assessment feedback using the SPIKE model.
Coaching with parents and caregivers	Upon completion, learners will gain skills in applying a coaching approach when working with families in early intervention.
Play	Upon completion, learners will have knowledge and skills required to apply play in therapeutic interventions.
Environmental Enrichment	Upon completion, learners will have the knowledge and skills to enhance therapeutic outcomes by optimising the infant’s environment.
Supporting Caregivers	Upon completion, learners will have the skills to embed strategies that support caregiver mental health and wellbeing into routine practice.
Task-specific Training: General principles	Task-specific training is a powerful approach grounded in neuroplasticity and motor learning principles designed to develop skills in specific functional tasks. This opening module for task-specific training aims to help learners understand the neuroscience evidence-base related to task-specific training and outline the principles of this approach for application in clinical practice.
Eating and Drinking: Part 1	By the end of this two-part module, learners will have the knowledge and skills to progress drinking skills with infants with or at risk of cerebral palsy.
Eating and Drinking: Part 2	By the end of this two-part module, learners will have the knowledge and skills to progress eating skills with infants with or at risk of cerebral palsy.
Caregiver-Infant Communication Training	By module, learners will have the knowledge and skills to support communication development of infants with or at risk of cerebral palsy across the therapeutic process including goal setting, assessment, intervention and evaluation.
Augmented and Alternative Communication (AAC)	By the end of this module, learners will have the knowledge and skills to therapeutically incorporate AAC as part of their service provision when working with infants with or at risk of cerebral palsy.