Introduction to OT Psychosocial Disability in the NDIS
Workshop Duration: 1.5 hours
Cost: $90.00
Are you unsure how to assess fluctuating function in psychosocial disability?
Do you struggle to justify support needs using NDIA aligned language?
This session offers practical, recovery oriented and trauma informed guidance to build confidence, structure and clarity in your psychosocial OT practice.
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Date: Thursday 5 February 2026
Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm AEST
Duration: 1.5 hours
What will you learn?
In this workshop, you will gain practical knowledge and tools to:
- Define psychosocial disability within the NDIS legislative and policy context
- Apply the social model of disability and recovery framework to OT assessment
- Identify functional impacts across communication, social interaction, learning, mobility, self care and self management
- Conduct structured psychosocial functional assessments that recognise fluctuating capacity and worst day experiences
- Use trauma informed approaches when gathering information and assessing risk
- Select and integrate interview based, observation based and task based assessments
- Link functional evidence to reasonable and necessary supports under Section 34
- Clearly articulate support needs, risks and functional benefit using NDIA aligned language
Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is designed for Occupational Therapists who:
- Work with participants with psychosocial disability within the NDIS
- Complete access, review or capacity building assessments
- Want to strengthen confidence working with episodic presentation and risk
- Are seeking clearer alignment between clinical reasoning and NDIA expectations
Why attend?
In this workshop, you will:
- Build confidence assessing psychosocial disability within the NDIS framework
- Learn practical strategies for capturing fluctuating function and risk
- Strengthen report writing that is recovery oriented, trauma informed and defensible
- Gain clarity on the OT role within multidisciplinary psychosocial support teams
What's included?
- Gain online access to the workshop – live workshops are delivered via Zoom, while self-paced options include access to recorded sessions
- Download workshop slides and any resources provided by the presenter
- Enjoy six months of access to the recording and resources via your Verve OT Learning Library
- Receive a certificate of completion for your CPD records, available via email upon completion of the workshop
About the Presenter
Muriel Cummins is an Occupational Therapist with extensive experience across mental health and disability practice. In addition to being an OT, she holds a Master of Public Health. She has worked in clinical, not-for-profit, peak-body and private-practice settings.
A tireless advocate for an equitable, best-practice NDIS, Muriel sits on the Every Australian Counts steering Committee; on both NDIS and mental health Occupational Therapy Australia National Reference Groups; the Transforming Australia's Mental Health Service System (TAMHSS) committee; and the ICF-Australia Interest Group which explores the application of international frameworks in the Australian context.
Muriel co-founded the Occupational Therapy Society for Invisible and Hidden Disability (OTSi) and works to build this dynamic organisation.
She holds the Policy and Strategy Advisory role with the Australian Rehabilition and Assistive Technology Association (ARATA).
Her leadership was recognised when she received the Australian Allied Health Awards – Occupational Therapist of the Year (2022).
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"The workshop provided a comprehensive introduction into psychosocial disability and the NDIS. I key takeaway include the assessment process and tips for the identification of support needs which I can implement into practice immediately. Any OT working with people with psychosocial disability would benefit from this training as it provides context to the client group to inform ongoing practice."
Rhianna B, Occupational Therapist
"The information on intervention focus was helpful as well as the discussion regarding getting around the large budgets for core supports with little for capacity building for psychosocial clients. I am going to try a care plan collaborating with my client to better educate my client's support workers surrounding their specific needs to maximise their core supports in absence of capacity building supports. Thanks for that!"
Leisa S, Occupational Therapist
