CPD Options

Below is a flavour of our CPD training on offer and included in your registration. Registration for CPD opens in late October, and CPD training begins in March 2024.

The Motor Activity Training Program

Friday June 20th 9:30-14:30pm in KSA Hall C

The Motor Activity Training Program (MATP) was created by Special Olympics and ensures that all athletes with intellectual disabilities (including athletes with high support needs/complex needs) can meaningfully be included in all aspects of Special Olympics sport.

MATP is a unique Special Olympics sport that strives to improve each athlete’s sport specific motor skills. This ensures that everyone can access and participate in appropriate Special Olympics sport activities geared to their ability levels and interests.

Introduction to MATP certified training at ISAPA 2025

Pre-conference online introduction workshop
Half day practical workshop
Practical MATP “Come and Try” event

MORE info on the MATP CPD can be found here.

APA for Visual Impairment and Deafblindness

Lauren Lieberman will be coordinating the all-day workshop "Physical Activity for Individuals with Visual Impairments, or Deafblindness, an International Perspective". The presenters are Valerie Caron from Switzerland, Ben Lytle from the US, Jane Blane from Canada, Inge Por Einarsson from Iceland, Martin Geis from Germany, and Laura Jimenez from Spain. This will be a research and practical session. The presenters are the most active professionals in their countries in this area. Attendees will walk away with a greater understanding and appreciation of how to teach individuals with VI or deafblindness in physical activity. This will take place Friday June 20th & the program is from 9am-4pm. Please dress for activity and we will break for 45 minutes for lunch.

More information on this CPD can be found HERE

IPEPAS Inclusive Aquatics E - Learning Programme [ONLINE]

Whether you are a teacher, aquatics instructor, or support person, this three-unit of CPD is for you.

Unit 1 covers entry and exit to and from the water for people who require support and how to support swimmers as needed in the water.

Unit 2 examines inclusive aquatics programming, including ability analysis, skills development and stroke adaptations based on the biomechanics of swimming.

Unit 3 The Aquatics Explorer provides guidance on supporting swimmers with various disabilities, functional difficulties and health conditions. The content will support in your practice to facilitate inclusive and safe aquatics for all.

IPEPAS Aquatics Workshop
[In Person Workshop]

The practical CPD will include education on providing supports in the water where required for aquatics sessions when working with people with disabilities. In this active in water practical participants will learn to provide supports in the water and develop skills to deliver inclusive programmes that will enhance the core aquatics skills of the participants they work with to ensure they have opportunities to thrive.

Practitioners will have gained the skills and quality education required to deliver inclusive aquatic programmes to people with disabilities to ensure people with disabilities have new opportunities to thrive benefitting their health and well - being and quality of life.

This will take place on Tuesday 17:00-18:30 in KSA Pool. Participants are reminded to bring swim gear, goggles and a swimming hat.

TRUST – Sport as it should be… Fun, Fair, Clear, Safe, Accessible to All.
[ONLINE] June 20th and 21st

Two modules introduce human rights education in and through sport. TRUST aims to build the capacity of learners to provide human rights education through sports, taking into consideration the needs of marginalised groups such as people with disabilities, refugees, and the LGBTQI+ community. A human rights-based approach for sports-based interventions is outlined to support participants in applying this methodology in their practice.

Module 1:

Unit 1: TRUST – Sport as it should be.
Unit 2: A global & holistic approach to social and personal development
Unit 3: Human Rights education through sports

Module 2:

Unit 1: TRUST – Sport as it should be.
Unit 2: A global & holistic approach to social and personal development
Unit 3: Human Rights education through sports

Adapt module – Adapting for disability, amputations, prosthetics and transplants.

Irish Dance: An Inclusive Approach- Sharon Phelan

This practical session provides teaching methods, which teachers can use to teach folk-dance to people of all ability levels. During the session, the participants learn to Irish dance through their senses of touch and hearing, as well as sight. They also learn to Irish dance using their upper bodies. These approaches enable everybody to Irish dance, irrespective of their levels of sight, hearing and mobility.

This will take place Friday 9:30-12pm in KSA Dance Studio.