Nothing says āperson-centredā quite like being assessed by someone who isnāt qualified to understand your needsā¦ The proposed Support Needs Assessments by the NDIA wonāt be completed by your trusted allied health professional ā in fact, they wonāt even be completed by an allied health professional at all. Instead, these assessments could be carried out by anyone who completes the NDIA training and becomes "accredited". Training is not the same as qualification. You canāt condense four years of university study, clinical placement, and professional registration into a couple of weeks of training. Allied health professionals spend years learning to assess functional capacity, interpret complex health information, and understand the interplay between disability, environment, and participation. These skills arenāt āoptional extrasā ā theyāre essential for ensuring fair, accurate, and person-centred decisions about supports. If this concerns you as much as it does the rest of us, itās worth paying attention to whatās being proposed. š Read more about it and sign the parliamentary petition here: https://lnkd.in/gXZRd7wD | 12 comments on LinkedIn
