NDIS Practice Standards
Module 3: Early childhood supports
m3-4.4 The family: plans flexible and individualised to preferences and learning styles
Clause and reference m3-4.4, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Each support plan is flexible and individual, reflecting the preferences and learning styles of the child and of each family member who takes part, and is adjusted when those change.
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
- Support plans recording how the child and family members prefer to learn
- Records of plan changes made in response to family preferences
- Varied delivery modes in session notes (coaching, modelling, written or video guidance)
What assessors commonly find
- Template plans with identical strategies for different families
- No record of how family members learn best
What evidence do I need?
For m3-4.4 The family: plans flexible and individualised to preferences and learning, the evidence to bring is: Support plans recording how the child and family members prefer to learn. It sits under Module 3: Early childhood supports and our reference for it is m3-4.4. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me support plans recording how the child and family members prefer to learn, 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