Designed for allied health and exercise professionals currently working, or wanting to work, with children and young people (5-18yrs) across exercise programs and/or rehabilitation.

Course 1: Exercise Adaptations & Physical Literacy in Young People (3 hours)
3hrs online self-paced learning, including lectures. reading and quizzes. This courses aims to extend participants understanding of the role and impact of different types of exercise in young people.

​Learning Modules include:

• Physical Literacy & Activity in Young People
• Role and Influence of Parent/Guardian
• Cognitive Function & Mental Health
• Exercise Adaptations in Young People

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Course 2: Physical Literacy & Therapeutic Exercise in Young People (15 hours)

Includes = Course 1 online content (3hr) + additional self-paced online learning (7hr), and live workshop (5hr: 2 x 2.5hr online, or 1/2 day face-to-face).

This course extends participants understanding of physical literacy into paediatric exercise rehabilitation, and clinical populations.​  The webinars and live workshops will include practical applications and clinical knowledge related to paediatric assessments (e.g. motor skills, neuromuscular performance, body composition, aerobic fitness) for typically developing and clinical paediatric populations.  

​Pathologies/Impairments discussed include

• neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g. Autism, ADHD, DCD).
• mental health disorders (e.g. anxiety and depression)
• hypermobility syndromes (e.g. EDS, JIA)
• behavioural challenges
• respiratory conditions (e.g. asthma, CF), and
• and more!

Focusing on clinical paediatric populations there will be theoretical, practical and key considerations for an exercise scientist, exercise physiologist or other allied health professional working with children and adolescents across a range of clinical groups.