Course overview
This Evergreen course consists of 5 unique modules. To allow more flexibility in your registration options, you can choose to register for the whole course at once, OR you can choose to register for the individual module(s) that are relevant to you.
Each module is outlined in detail below.
Module 1: Disability Foundations
This session is individually worth 4 CPD hours.
Learning outcomes:
- Distinguish between the medical, social and biopsychosocial models of disability
- Identify and explain relevant legislation and policy to support safe and ethical dietetic practice with people with a disability
- Apply key concepts using a human rights approach when working with people with a disability
- Apply a cultural competency lens to working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples with disability and their family/kinship circles
- Apply a cultural competency lens to working with people from culturally diverse backgrounds and their family and carers
- Explain the concept of intersectionality and impact on people with disability
Module 1: Disability Foundations
This session is individually worth 4 CPD hours.
Learning outcomes:
- Distinguish between the medical, social and biopsychosocial models of disability
- Identify and explain relevant legislation and policy to support safe and ethical dietetic practice with people with a disability
- Apply key concepts using a human rights approach when working with people with a disability
- Apply a cultural competency lens to working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples with disability and their family/kinship circles
- Apply a cultural competency lens to working with people from culturally diverse backgrounds and their family and carers
- Explain the concept of intersectionality and impact on people with disability
Module 2: Health and Function
This session is individually worth 4 CPD hours.
Learning outcomes:
- Interpret the International Classification of Functioning (ICF) to conceptualise disability and describe function relevant to dietetic practice
- Apply the ICF model to common dietetic case scenarios across the Nutrition Care Process
- Describe the role and scope of dietitians, other people and services who impact the life of a person with a disability
- Collaboratively develop realistic functionally based nutrition goals
Module 2: Health and Function
This session is individually worth 4 CPD hours.
Learning outcomes:
- Interpret the International Classification of Functioning (ICF) to conceptualise disability and describe function relevant to dietetic practice
- Apply the ICF model to common dietetic case scenarios across the Nutrition Care Process
- Describe the role and scope of dietitians, other people and services who impact the life of a person with a disability
- Collaboratively develop realistic functionally based nutrition goals
Module 3: Communication
This session is individually worth 4 CPD hours.
Learning outcomes:
- Recognise communication as a human right
- Understand how communication disability is experienced in relation to the World Health Organisation's ICF, Disability and Health
- Be aware of some of the tools and strategies used by people with communication disabilities
- Understand how to effectively communicate with a person with an expressive communication disability
- Understand how to effectively communicate with a person with a receptive communication disability
- Understand the importance of communication access
Module 3: Communication
This session is individually worth 4 CPD hours.
Learning outcomes:
- Recognise communication as a human right
- Understand how communication disability is experienced in relation to the World Health Organisation's ICF, Disability and Health
- Be aware of some of the tools and strategies used by people with communication disabilities
- Understand how to effectively communicate with a person with an expressive communication disability
- Understand how to effectively communicate with a person with a receptive communication disability
- Understand the importance of communication access
Module 4: Supporting people with a disability where they live, work and play
This session is individually worth 4 CPD hours.
Learning outcomes:
- Describe the implications, challenges and opportunities that impact nutrition related to different settings
- Apply a safety and ethical lens to collaboratively design and support the implementation of mealtime strategies and recommendations for children and adults
- Apply the principles of education and learning theory to recognise best practice design and delivery of education for people with a cognitive or learning disability and their supports
- Identify and navigate the challenges and opportunities involved in effectively planning meals with people with disability
- Recognise the presence, need and impacts of restrictive practice on a person with disability
Module 4: Supporting people with a disability where they live, work and play
This session is individually worth 4 CPD hours.
Learning outcomes:
- Describe the implications, challenges and opportunities that impact nutrition related to different settings
- Apply a safety and ethical lens to collaboratively design and support the implementation of mealtime strategies and recommendations for children and adults
- Apply the principles of education and learning theory to recognise best practice design and delivery of education for people with a cognitive or learning disability and their supports
- Identify and navigate the challenges and opportunities involved in effectively planning meals with people with disability
- Recognise the presence, need and impacts of restrictive practice on a person with disability
Module 5: Navigating funding
This session is individually worth 4 CPD hours.
Learning outcomes:
- Describe the different funding streams, eligibility criteria, practitioner responsibilities and implications for providers for people with disability to access dietetic services
- Recognise the challenges of navigating the health system from the perspective of a person with disability
- Describe the founding principles and goals of the NDIS including reasonable and necessary criteria with regards to common nutrition supports
- Confidently navigate NDIS reporting requirements for children and adults
Module 5: Navigating funding
This session is individually worth 4 CPD hours.
Learning outcomes:
- Describe the different funding streams, eligibility criteria, practitioner responsibilities and implications for providers for people with disability to access dietetic services
- Recognise the challenges of navigating the health system from the perspective of a person with disability
- Describe the founding principles and goals of the NDIS including reasonable and necessary criteria with regards to common nutrition supports
- Confidently navigate NDIS reporting requirements for children and adults