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NDIS Acronym Guide

January 4, 2021Sarah GalvinServicesNo comments

LAC, STA, OT, PM!? The NDIS can be tricky to navigate at the best of times – and the endless list of acronyms doesn’t make it any easier!

We’ve provided a list below of the most common acronyms used accompanied with explanations.

You can also download the PDF guide here:

NDIS-Acronym-Guide

AAT – Administrative Appeals Tribunal who you appeal to if not satisfied after RoRD.

ADL – Activities of Daily Living

Agency Managed – NDIA pays providers directly.

ARF – Access Request Form

AT – Assistive Technology

Ax – Assessment

CB – Capacity Building. A funding category in an NDIS plan.

Core – A funding category in an NDIS plan

Capital – A funding category in an NDIS plan

CP – Clinical Psychologist (or Cerebral Palsy)

Delegate – Person with authority to make an NDIS  decision.

Dx – Diagnosis

EP – Exercise Physiologist

FOI – Freedom Of Information

IA – Independent Assessment. Aka IFA

IFA – Independent Assessment aka IA.

ILO – Individual Living Options

LAC – Local Area Coordinator

Planner – NDIA employee who writes your plan. They may or may not be a Delegate. You may deal directly with a Planner or, more likely, with an LAC.

OG – Operational Guideline

OT – Occupational Therapist

Physio – Physiotherapist

PM – Plan Manager

Psych – Psychologist

PT – Personal Trainer

PWD – Person (or People) With Disability

Q&S Commission – Quality & Safeguards Commission.

R&N – Reasonable & Necessary

RC – Recovery Coach

RoRD – Review of a reviewable decision aka S100 or internal review.

S100 review – Section 100 review aka RoRD or internal review.

SC – Support Coordinator aka Coordinator of Supports (CoS)

SSC – Specialist Support Coordinator

SW – Support Worker

Sx – Symptoms

Tx – Treatment

NAT – National Access Team

NDIA – National Disability Insurance Agency.  The agency who administers the NDIS

NDIS – National Disability Insurance Scheme

Participant Portal – aka myplace – links to mygov. Gives access to update details, view your plan, view expenditure &, if self-managed, claim funds.

Plan managed –  An intermediary pays providers and keeps records for you.

Price guide – Policy, codes and price caps

Self-managed –  You do all claims & payments & keep records.

SDA – Specialist Disability Accommodation

SIL – Supported Independent Living

STA – Short Term Accommodation.

WHODAS – World Health Organisation Disability Assessment Schedule

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