NDIS Practice Standards
Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities
m1-4a.5 Severe dysphagia: participant-specific training by an expert practitioner
Clause and reference m1-4a.5, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Every worker providing severe dysphagia management is trained in each participant's needs, managing dysphagia-related incidents and the high intensity support skills descriptor for severe dysphagia management, by an appropriately qualified health practitioner with expertise in severe dysphagia management.
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
- Training records signed by the speech pathologist or other practitioner with dysphagia expertise
- Competency assessments against the dysphagia support skills and knowledge list
- Annual competency review records
What assessors commonly find
- Training delivered by a non-practitioner, which this standard does not allow
- Competency not rechecked
What evidence do I need?
For m1-4a.5 Severe dysphagia: participant-specific training by an expert practitioner, the evidence to bring is: Training records signed by the speech pathologist or other practitioner with dysphagia expertise. It sits under Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities and our reference for it is m1-4a.5. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me training records signed by the speech pathologist or other practitioner with dysphagia expertise, 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