NDIS Practice Standards
Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities
m1-4a.1 Severe dysphagia: identifying participants who need it
Clause and reference m1-4a.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider identifies each participant who requires severe dysphagia management, so that their swallowing, biting or chewing risks can be assessed by qualified practitioners and planned for.
Our wording of the requirement: our statement of what the clause asks, not the instrument verbatim. Source: NDIS Practice Standards on the compliance desk.
The evidence to bring
- Register of participants with severe dysphagia management needs
- Screening records for swallowing, biting or chewing difficulty
- Certificate of registration showing severe dysphagia management where provided
What assessors commonly find
- Participants with aspiration history not identified
- Register not updated after hospital discharge
What evidence do I need?
For m1-4a.1 Severe dysphagia: identifying participants who need it, the evidence to bring is: Register of participants with severe dysphagia management needs. It sits under Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities and our reference for it is m1-4a.1. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me register of participants with severe dysphagia management needs, and tell me who owns it and when it was last reviewed.
That is the question a quality assessor opens with for this requirement. Have the record on the desk and the date it was last reviewed to hand.
Read your own evidence against this clause
Paste your policy or evidence pack and the reading marks, line by line, whether a phrase from this requirement appears and quotes your own words when it does. It is a reading of your text, not a compliance result; a quality assessor decides whether a requirement is met. Read your pack, free See the paid reading