NDIS Assessment Ipswich
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Individuals who are suffering from permanent and significant disabilities will have difficulties going through their daily lives. Fortunately, the Australian Government has established the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) to provide support to Australians living with disabilities, which aims to improve their health condition and quality of life. Today, NDIS has helped over 400,000 Australians and about 150,000 of them are new participants with a plan tailored according to their needs, goals, and unique condition. Since the support and funding provided by the NDIS are proven effective to help individuals living with disabilities, the NDIS has introduced NDIS Assessments to improve the support plan where the citizens and residents of Ipswich will greatly benefit.
Positive Moods brings NDIS Assessments to the citizens and residents of Ipswich to assist in gathering key information that can help in creating the NDIS support plan. NDIS Assessments can help all eligible NDIS participants, to gather evidence in proving the status of their disability. Also, NDIS Assessments can help in creating flexible plans that can help achieve their goals.
What is NDIS Assessment?
NDIS Assessments are evidence-based and internationally-recognised tests used to gather key information about the participant's current condition that can confirm their eligibility for NDIS funding, and also assist in increasing the NDIS funding based on the participants changing condition no matter what the circumstances. With the NDIS Assessments, the participants can gather up-to-date information in creating a flexible support plan.
NDIS Assessments provide an overview of the participant’s health condition that can help the healthcare professionals to create a support plan based on how they perform daily tasks such as participating in their home, school, workplace, and community. When administering NDIS Assessments, the participant’s intelligence is measured rather than their disability. NDIS Assessments also make sure that the support plan provided to the participants is fair, favourable, and tailored based on their needs, goals, and unique condition.
How to administer NDIS Assessments?
To assure that the NDIS support plan is provided fairly, NDIS Assessments are used to measure the participant’s health condition to confirm their eligibility for support. Going through NDIS Assessments, participants and applicants of ages 7 years old and above are advised to go through an independent assessment based on their condition and age. During the planning process and administration of the therapy, NDIS Assessments can assist in identifying particular changes in the participant’s life such as acquiring a new job, finishing school, or moving out of the house to make significant changes on the support plan.
Furthermore, healthcare professionals at Positive Moods will work closely with the participants, their families, and carers to assist them on the NDIS Assessments process. Partaking in NDIS Assessments can help the participants with the financial costs of going through clinical assessments to provide evidence regarding their functional capacity, and also assist in gathering key information that is beneficial in planning and revising the support plan.
What are the NDIS Assessments Tools?
NDIS aims to improve the participant's health condition and quality of life. Thus, the Assessment Tools offered by the NDIS are evidence-based and internationally-recognised to assist the healthcare professionals in assessing the health condition of the participants to create a tailored support plan. All of the assessment tools are designed according to the participant's ages to measure their intelligence, rather than their condition.
Brief Cognitive Status Exam
A quick and reliable test specially designed to measure global functioning for patients with traumatic brain injury, dementia, mill intellectual disorder, or suspected Alzheimer’s disease.
Lower Extremity Function Scale (LEFS)
A questionnaire with 20 questions that asks about an individual's difficulty in performing daily tasks. LEFS is designed to measure the lower limb function and a lower LEFS score implies serious disability.
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV (WAIS-IV) or Test of Premorbid Functioning (TOPF)
WAIS-IV or now referred to as TOPF, the revised and updated version of WAIS-IV is the most advance and the most often used tool to measure cognitive ability in adults. This measures the relevance of an adult's cognitive functioning and memory before the onset of injury or illness.
Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS)
This test is designed to measure the social function and health condition of individuals with severe mental illness. HoNOS is a clinically recognised assessment tool used to measure the impairment, behaviour, symptoms, and social function.
Vineland 3
This is an assessment tool used to measure adaptive behaviour. Vineland 3 assists with the diagnosis of intellectual and developmental disabilities. It also gathers key information to create educational and treatment plans. Vineland 3 is proven effective in measuring an individual’s personal and social skills that are useful in everyday lives, including Communication, Daily Living Skills, Socialisation, and Motor Skills for children below 9 years old.
World Health Organisation Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) 2.0
This is an assessment tool designed to measure cognition, mobility, self-care, socialisation, performance, and function both in household and in work. WHODAS 2.0 is directly associated with the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) which is suitable to any participant, regardless of culture and disability.
Craig Hospital Inventory of Environmental Factors (CHIEF)
This is a 25-question assessment that enquires about environmental barriers at home, work, and in the community. CHIEF is designed to measure psychosocial factors that can influence an individual’s health, disability, and function that can delay the accomplishment of daily tasks.
Paediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory Computer Adaptive Test (PEDI-CAT original and ASD version)
PEDI-CAT original consists of questionnaires answered by the participant's families or carers to measure Daily Activities, Mobility, Socio-Cognitive functions, and Responsibility. Specifically designed for children and youth with diverse behavioural and physical conditions and provides an ASD version for children diagnosed with ASD.
Participation and Environment Measure for Children and Youth (PEM-CY)
This is a newly established tool administered to children and youth, between ages 5 to 17 years old with or without disabilities. PEM-CY is designed to assist parents, and healthcare providers to deeply understand the child or the youth’s level of participation by using questionnaires that can measure the participation in their home, school, and the community.
For more details on NDIS Assessments, citizens and residents of Ipswich who are existing participants or manifesting permanent and significant disability, may call Positive Moods on 1300 001 470, email at ndis@positivemoods.com.au, or fill in the contact form on https://www.positivemoods.com.au/contactus.