NDIS Assessments Mackay
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Individuals who are living with a permanent and significant disability may face challenges in performing daily tasks and may have restricted functional capacity. Having such serious health complications can restrict an individual's communication skills, mobility, personal care, social skills, and work skills, which results in losing their independence. Moreover, with all the restrictions brought by their condition, they may also have difficulties manoeuvring in their environment, and working towards their goals would be impossible. It is for this reason that the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has created the NDIS Assessments to help the citizens and residents of Mackay get the necessary support.
As a registered NDIS service provider, Positive Moods brings NDIS Assessments to the citizens and residents of Mackay, to help them in collecting vital information to create a tailored support plan based on the participant's specific needs, goals, and unique condition. Since there are millions of Australians living with disabilities, the NDIS Assessments will not only benefit the existing NDIS participants, but also the new applicants. Through utilising NDIS Assessments, eligible NDIS participants, both existing and new, are assisted with collecting information needed to prove their disability and to create a suitable support plan, regardless of their financial condition.
NDIS Assessments consist of tools that are internationally recognised, updated, clinically tested, and are used to collect essential information to help existing and new NDIS participants provide proof of their disability. The collected information is essential to create an individualised support plan and to also increase NDIS funding for existing participants. Through the NDIS Assessments, NDIS participants can have flexible plans based on their ever-changing condition, regardless of their financial condition. Also, NDIS participants who partake in using NDIS Assessments Tools will have less wasted time and money, while leading them to work towards their goals.
In short, NDIS Assessments provide an overview of the participant’s current health condition that is used by the healthcare professionals as the basis for creating a support plan. Specific factors are observed when administering the NDIS Assessments such as how the participants perform daily tasks, partake in their home, school, workplace, and the community. During the NDIS Assessments, healthcare professionals will focus on evaluating the participant’s intelligence, rather than their disability. Apart from all the benefits stated, the NDIS Assessments also aim to assure that each participant is provided with a support plan that is reasonable, necessary, and in line with their specific needs, goals, and unique condition.
Administering NDIS Assessments
To make sure that the NDIS support plan is granted reasonably, the services offered by the NDIS are given to eligible NDIS participants. Additionally, when administering the NDIS Assessments, healthcare professionals will work closely with the participants, as well as their families and carers, to assess the participant’s health condition to determine their eligibility for support. NDIS participants both existing and new are recommended to undertake the NDIS Assessments designed for their age and condition, to start with the planning process. Through NDIS, the support plan is guaranteed to be in line with the participant’s needs, goals, and conditions.
Throughout the planning process and administering of therapy, the NDIS can also help in determining significant changes in the participant's life such as getting a new job, preparing for school, or living independently, to make necessary changes on the support plan. Undertaking NDIS Assessments can benefit the participants by covering the financial cost of taking clinical assessments to provide proof of their disability and help in collecting vital information that is important in planning and adjusting the support plan.
NDIS Assessments Tools
The main objective of NDIS is to improve and change the lives of millions of Australians suffering from a disability. Therefore, NDIS offers Assessments Tools that are internationally recognised, updated, and tested, to help the healthcare professionals understand the overall health conditions of the participants to create a customised support plan. To assure that everyone’s needs are met, the NDIS Assessment Tools are all designed by on the participant’s age to measure their intelligence, instead of their disability.
Brief Cognitive Status Exam. A brief and reliable test designed mainly to assess global functioning for individuals with a mental health condition such as traumatic brain injury, dementia, mild intellectual disability, or possible Alzheimer's disease.
Lower Extremity Function Scale (LEFS). A type of test consisting of 20 questions regarding an individual's challenges in performing everyday tasks, LEFS is created to assess an individual's lower limb function. The test implies that the lower the LEFS score is, the severe the disability.
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV (WAIS-IV) or Test of Premorbid Functioning (TOPF). This test is also known as the TOPF, the revised and new version of WAIS-IV. It is one of the most advanced and frequently use assessment tools that measure an adult's cognitive skills and helps in assessing whether an adult's cognitive function and memory are related before the onset of disability or illness.
Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS). This test is specifically designed for individuals with severe mental health conditions. HoNOS helps to assess one's social function and health condition. It is an internationally recognised tool used to assess impairment, social function, behaviour, and symptoms.
Vineland 3. Designed to mainly assess the adaptive behaviour, Vineland 3 can help with diagnosing someone with a mental and developmental condition and in collecting essential information to create treatment and educational plans. This assessment tool is clinically proven in assessing one's personal and social skills that are essential in daily life.
World Health Organisation Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) 2.0. An assessment tool used to assess cognitive, mobility, personal care, social relationship, engagement, and function at home and work. WHODAS 2.0 is recommended for adult participants with different cultures, and disabilities.
Craig Hospital Inventory of Environmental Factors (CHIEF). A type of test that contains 25 questions assessing the environmental barriers that affect adult's performance at home, work, and in the community. CHIEF is created to assess psychosocial factors that can affect an individual's health, disability, and function that can hamper the achievement of everyday tasks.
Paediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory Computer Adaptive Test (PEDI-CAT original and ASD version). An assessment tool containing questionnaires for the participant's carers or families to be answered, PEDI-CAT is used to assess daily activities, mobility, socio-cognitive functions, and responsibility. This tool is designed for children and youth with varying physical and behavioural disabilities and offers an ASD version for children diagnosed with ASD.
Participation and Environment Measure- for Children and Youth (PEM-CY). Specifically designed for children and youth between ages 5 to 17 years old, PEM-CY is a newly designed tool used to help parents, and healthcare providers thoroughly understand the child or youths’ level of participants with or without disabilities. PEM-CY uses a questionnaire to assess their performance at home, school, and in 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.