The NDIA encourages innovation from providers when delivering supports to achieve participant’s goals. NDIA also seeks to develop the capacity of participants as consumers to exercise choice and negotiate with providers. Providers should talk with participants about the ways Allied Health Practitioners (AHP), students/provisional psychologists, or Allied Health Assistants (AHA) can contribute to achieving participant outcomes. It is also beneficial for the student/provisional psychologist to work with people with disability as they are more likely to choose to work in the area if they have had a positive experience as a student.

Answered questions:

1. Are AHP students/provisional psychologists on clinical/practice placement able to provide serviecs to NDIS participants?
2. Can a registered provider charge a supplemental fee for services provided to NDIS participants ny AHP students/provisional psychologists on placement?
3. Would AHP studnts/provisional psychologists on placement be able to deliver a service (supervised by a professional provider) that was not billed?
4. Can an AHP student/provisional psychologist, not on placement, but employed by a provider in an appropriate capacity under the NDIS Terms of Business and Guide to Suitability be abe to be paid for services delivered to an NDIS participant with the participant's agreement and noted in a service agreement?
5. Why is the apporach for provisional psychologists the same as for AHP students?
   
   

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