Nothing says “person-centred” quite like being assessed by someone who isn’t qualified to understand your needs… The proposed Support Needs Assessments by the NDIA won’t be completed by your trusted allied health professional — in fact, they won’t 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 can’t 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 aren’t “optional extras” — they’re essential for ensuring fair, accurate, and person-centred decisions about supports. If this concerns you as much as it does the rest of us, it’s worth paying attention to what’s being proposed. 👉 Read more about it and sign the parliamentary petition here: https://lnkd.in/gXZRd7wD | 12 comments on LinkedIn
