NDIS Practice Standards
Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities
m1-4a.2 Severe dysphagia: assessment and review by qualified practitioners
Clause and reference m1-4a.2, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
With consent, each participant's severe dysphagia management needs are assessed by appropriately qualified health practitioners, who review them regularly and in good time when needs change or difficulty is observed.
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
- Speech pathology swallowing assessments
- Practitioner review records triggered by observed difficulty
- Consent to assessment
What assessors commonly find
- Observed coughing at meals not referred for review
- Assessment older than the practitioner's recommended interval
What evidence do I need?
For m1-4a.2 Severe dysphagia: assessment and review by qualified practitioners, the evidence to bring is: Speech pathology swallowing assessments; Practitioner review records triggered by observed difficulty. It sits under Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities and our reference for it is m1-4a.2. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me speech pathology swallowing assessments, 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