NDIS Assessment Cairns
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Having a permanent and significant disability can be challenging, making it difficult for an individual to accomplish daily tasks due to limited functional capacity. It also comes with other impacts which limit an individual's mobility, communication skills, personal care, work skills, and social skills, leading to deprived independence. Additionally, permanent and significant disability leads to struggle navigating the environment, which delays achieving goals. Thus, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) established the NDIS Assessment, which aims to assist individuals with a disability to acquire the essential support they need to make their lives easier and reduce the need for assistance in the future.
Positive Moods offers the NDIS Assessments to the citizens and residents of Cairns, aiming to collect vital information essential in developing an NDIS support plan. Through the NDIS Assessments, eligible NDIS participants, both old and new, can acquire assistance to gather evidence about their present health condition to prove their disability. This service involves internationally recognised and evidence-based assessments, accessible regardless of one's financial condition. Moreover, the NDIS Assessment can assist in developing flexible plans, saving the participants time and money and making them closer to reaching their goals.
Understanding NDIS Assessment
NDIS Assessment is a beneficial service that eligible NDIS participants will benefit from, consisting of internationally recognised, evidence-based, reliable, and updated tests used to collect vital information about the participant's present condition. The result will then serve as evidence to verify the participant’s eligibility for NDIS funding and help increase the support they need based on their ever-changing condition, regardless of their circumstances. Also, with the NDIS Assessment, participants can collect updated information needed in developing a flexible support plan. Thus, acquiring this service can help NDIS participants reach their goals further.
Furthermore, the NDIS Assessment result will provide healthcare professionals an overview of the participant's present health condition to develop a support plan that matches how they carry out daily tasks and engage at home, school, workplace, and the community. During the NDIS Assessment, healthcare professionals will also measure the participant's intelligence instead of their disability. It also ensures that the participants receive a fair and reasonable support plan that matches their needs, goals, and unique condition. Thus, the citizens and residents of Cairns with permanent and significant disabilities will benefit from the NDIS Assessment, allowing them to access necessary and adequate support.
Administering NDIS Assessments
While the NDIS aims to support Australians with a disability, it ensures that the support plan is fair and reasonable to eligible NDIS participants. Thus, healthcare professionals will work closely with the participants, their families, and carers to evaluate their present health conditions, which can help verify their eligibility for support. Under the NDIS Assessments, both old and new NDIS participants can access different tests based on their age, ensuring that the support plan matches the participant, goals, and unique conditions.
Additionally, NDIS Assessment is beneficial in the planning process and throughout the therapy, identifying significant changes in the participant’s life like preparing to attend school, acquiring a new job, or moving out to live independently, allowing healthcare professionals to make changes on the support plan. It will also benefit the citizens and residents of Cairns to cover the financial cost of acquiring clinical assessment to prove the participant's disability and assist in collecting vital information needed to develop and make changes to the support plan.
NDIS Assessments Tools
Considering that NDIS aims to support and improve the lives of Australians with a disabilities, the NDIS Assessments Tools will consist of internationally recognised, latest, and reliable tests. It can assist healthcare professionals in understanding the participant's present and overall health condition to develop an efficient support plan. And to ensure that each participant's needs, the NDIS Assessments Tools are created to measure intelligence instead of disability.
Brief Cognitive Status Exam. This is a quick and trusted test used to evaluate the global function of individuals suffering from a mental health condition, including traumatic brain injury, mild intellectual disability, dementia, or suspected Alzheimer's disease.
Lower Extremity Function Scale (LEFS). A 20 questionnaire type of test evaluating an individual's difficulties in doing daily tasks, LEFS is used to observe the lower limb function. This test indicates that a lower LEFS score is equivalent to severe disability.
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV (WAIS-IV) or Test of Premorbid Functioning (TOPF). Previously known as WAIS-IV, TOPF is the revised version of assessment tools used to measure an adult's cognitive skills. It is also the most advanced and commonly applied test to evaluate if an adult's cognitive function and memory are associated with the onset of illness or disability.
Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS). A type of test created to evaluate individuals suffering from a severe mental health condition, HoNOS assists in assessing the participant's health condition and social function. This test is internationally recognised, assessing impairment, behaviour, social, and symptoms.
Vineland 3. Created to evaluate adaptive behaviour, Vineland 3 can assist in diagnosing an individual with developmental and mental conditions. It can also help participants collect vital information to develop treatment and educational plans. Vineland 3 is a clinically proven assessment tool that can help evaluate an individual's social and personal skills needed in everyday life.
World Health Organisation Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) 2.0. Under this test, an individual's mobility, cognitive, personal care, social relationship, participation, and performance at home and work. WHODAS 2.0 is a commonly applied test for adult participants with different disabilities and cultures.
Craig Hospital Inventory of Environmental Factors (CHIEF). Another type of test consisting of 25 questions, the CHIEF is used to evaluate environmental barriers that impact adults' participation at home, at work, and in the community. It helps assess psychosocial factors that affect an individual's disability, health, and performance, delaying the achievement of daily tasks.
Paediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory Computer Adaptive Test (PEDI-CAT original and ASD version. A questionnaire test designed for the families and carers of the participants, PEDI-CAT evaluates mobility, daily activities, social/cognitive, and responsibility. It is administered to children and youth manifesting different behavioural and physical disabilities and provides an ASD version to ASD-diagnosed children.
Participation and Environment Measure- for Children and Youth (PEM-CY). Designed for children and youth ages 5 to 17 years old, with or without disabilities, PEM-CY is the new test that aims to assist parents and healthcare providers in understanding the level of engagement of children or youth. The test includes a questionnaire that evaluates the participant's performance in their home, school, and community.
For more details on NDIS Assessments, citizens and residents of Cairns 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.