Initial Contact Session
This session takes 2 hours and involves:
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Your therapist will get to know you via a semi-structured interview that looks at your functioning in all aspects of daily life.
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You and your therapist will discuss potential goals for your therapy and how we may achieve them.
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We will have a look at your NDIS plan so that we can understand what supports you have available to you.
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We will set up future appointments.
Assessment Session/s
This session takes 1.5 hours and can involve:
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You and your therapist will assess your goals using the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure which rates your identified OT goals on importance, performance and satisfaction.
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Your therapist will complete standardized assessments with you, that are considered best practice, and which will evaluate your level of functioning in relation to your identified goals.
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Your therapist will observe your daily tasks to analyse how you complete the task and any environmental or social barriers that support or hinder your independence.
Capacity Building
Sessions
These sessions take 1.5 hours and involves focusing on the meaningful goals as identified in the initial and assessment sessions. We capacity build you to achieve your goals by:
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Developing skills via task-specific practice whereby your meaningful activity is repetitively completed alongside your therapist.
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Developing and implementing strategies that support your engagement and independence within your chosen activity.
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Implementing assistive technology in your environment so that the environment supports your abilities.
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Providing education to you and your supports.
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Liaising with other allied health involved in your care to ensure consistency across supports so that you can achieve your goals.
The number of capacity building sessions, and the locations where these sessions take place, can vary depending on your needs.
Review of Goals
This session takes 1.5 hours and can involve:
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A follow-up assessment of your goals using the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure to determine the amount of change and whether you have achieved your goals. This is used to show the NDIS the effectiveness of OT and to advocate for future funding.
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A follow-up of standardized assessments, as completed in the initial contact session.
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You and your therapist will discuss potential goals for additional therapy (if needed) and how we may achieve them.
Report Writing
Reports can take 3 or more hours to complete depending on type and complexity. For example:
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Functional Capacity Report: 8-12 hours
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Progress Reports: 3 hours
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Assistive Technology Reports: 3 hours
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Minor Home Modification Reports: 3-5 hours
Functional Capacity
Assessments (FCA)
Functional Capacity Assessments and Reports can be requested by the NDIA when you have a new plan; experience a change in circumstances; there are upcoming life transitions; there has been a change in disability. They are designed to evaluate and narrate a person's functioning within all aspects of their daily life and outline why funding requests are reasonable and necessary for the person's disability. The whole process can take up to 15 hours and includes:
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Review of reports and documentation from other allied health, for information gathering purposes.
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Initial contact session.
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Assessment Session/s. Depending on complexity this can require 1-3 sessions.
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Report writing.
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Communication with the supports in your care team.
