Services & Therapies

Services are easier to understand grouped by purpose than listed alphabetically. Three purposes cover most of them: building your capacity, assessing your needs, and helping with daily life.

Capacity-building services

These are the services aimed at skills, independence, and function over time: occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech pathology, psychology, and the other therapeutic supports. They share a logic - work now that pays off in capability later - and they sit under capacity-building supports for that reason.

Each service page in this pillar covers what the service involves and what the published rules say about it, without claiming any outcome for any individual. The NDIS funds supports it decides are reasonable and necessary for your goals, and therapies are weighed on exactly that basis.

Assessments

Assessments are the evidence layer. A functional capacity assessment describes what someone can and cannot do across daily activities, and it often underpins requests for equipment or supports because it states need in the terms the NDIA weighs. Knowing when an assessment helps, and who writes it, saves months.

Everyday services and finding providers

Daily-life supports - help at home, community access, support work - round out the picture. For any of these, the question quickly becomes local: who delivers this near me.

That is what the provider directory is for. It lets you browse by service and area, shows official market data for each location, and links the NDIS Commission register so you can verify a registered provider’s status yourself. A listing is not an endorsement, and the directory says so.