NDIS Access and Psychosocial Disability Workshop
Watch Elspeth Jordan, from the NDIA mental health team, explain in depth the NDIS access rules for psychosocial disability (a disability caused by a person’s mental health issues) including what ‘likely to be permanent’ means, and that an episodic mental health issue can still qualify.
Elspeth provides detailed advice on gathering and presenting evidence for access requests through several case studies, including comments on what sort of language and descriptors are helpful and unhelpful.
Elspeth dispels myths around specific diagnoses’ and automatic access, and the nuances of access to the NDIS for people with a psychosocial disability, including for people with a co-occurring alcohol and other drug issue.
To meet the likely to be permanent criteria, an access request needs to demonstrate that a person’s clinical recovery is not likely – this means that the person has tried treatments and interventions as prescribed and the impairment remains.
This event, held on 18 September 2018, was funded and organised by the NDIA.
Video link - Elspeth Jordan on the rules of accessing NDIS for people with psychosocial disability.