CHCDIS004 Communicate using augmentative and alternative communication strategies

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for CHCDIS004 ended on 21 November 2022 — 3 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
CHC — Community Services
Currency period ends
21 November 2022
Latest release
Release 1 · 6 August 2015
Supersedes
CHCDIS411A
Superseded by
CHCDIS014 not equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. CHCDIS004Superseded — not equivalentCommunicate using augmentative and alternative communication strategies
  2. not equivalent
  3. CHCDIS014CurrentDevelop and use strategies for communication with augmentative and alternative communication systems

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • CHCDIS411ACHCDIS004not equivalent5 August 2015

    Minimal change to the elements and performance criteria. New evidence requirements for assessment including volume and frequency requirements. Significant changes to knowledge evidence.

  • CHCDIS004CHCDIS014not equivalent22 November 2022

    Non Equivalent. Title changed. Changes to Performance Criteria, Performance Evidence, Knowledge Evidence, Assessment Conditions to reflect changed industry expectations.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for CHCDIS004 and for its training package CHC (release 11.1), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

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Where CHCDIS004 is used

training.gov.au lists CHCDIS004 inside 12 training products, 5 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for CHCDIS004 in that product.

Current products 5 listed

CodeTraining productTypeCHCDIS004 is
CHC41215Certificate IV in Career DevelopmentQualificationelective
CHC42315Certificate IV in Chaplaincy and Pastoral CareQualificationelective
CHC43015Certificate IV in Ageing SupportQualificationelective
CHC53415Diploma of Leisure and HealthQualificationelective
FNS51920Diploma of Personal Injury and Disability Insurance ManagementQualificationelective

Products no longer current 7 listed

The register still records CHCDIS004 inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypeCHCDIS004 is
CHC33015Certificate III in Individual SupportQualificationelective
CHC40213Certificate IV in Education SupportQualificationelective
CHC40221Certificate IV in School Based Education SupportQualificationelective
CHC42015Certificate IV in Community ServicesQualificationelective
CHC43115Certificate IV in DisabilityQualificationelective
CHCSS00094High Support and Complex Care - Disability Skill Set Skill setcore
FNS51915Diploma of Personal Injury and Disability Insurance ManagementQualificationelective

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 14 October 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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