NDIS Reporting Terminology for Exercise Physiologists

TERMS TO AVOID
Rehabilitation
This term implies restoring someone’s function as much as possible to pre-injury abilities. This type of therapy is the responsibility of the health system. NDIS also requires a person's disability as 'likely to be permanent' and 'significant' so if therapy is likely to substantially change the nature of their condition, the person may not even be eligible for NDIS.

Services
Services refer only to paid supports.

Case Manager
The NDIS does not fund case management.

Care Attendant / Care
This job title might fit in other sectors but in the disability sector, we prefer the word 'support' over 'care' in most cases. 

Patient / Client
As above, these may work in other sectors but not the NDIS.

Mental health condition, mental illness, psychiatric condition, psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatric impairment
These terms are sometimes used interchangeably, but are terms that are used in the Health and Mental Health sectors and do not necessarily have a link to a disability. 

TERMS TO USE

Capacity Building
The NDIS is big on capacity building: improving a person’s skills, confidence, abilities or resourcefulness or supporting them to reach their potential in social and economic participation. This is distinct from rehabilitation or treatment, which suggest a change to the underlying disability.
Supports
Supports encompasses more than just paid supports and includes community, mainstream and informal supports and is the preferred term in NDIS.
Support Coordinator
Support Coordination is an NDIS funded support that is responsible for working with people to build their capacity and knowledge to navigate the NDIS, to assist the person to implement their NDIS plan, and connect to informal, mainstream, community and NDIS funded supports.  
Support Worker / Support
Support implies a greater level of independence on behalf of the individual, which is why these terms are preferred.

Participant
A person who receives funding from the NDIS is known as an NDIS participant. (But, y'know, you can also just call them a person)
Psychosocial disability
 Psychosocial disability is a term used to describe a disability (i.e. a functional impact) that may arise from a mental health condition. 

This has been adapted from The Summer Foundation - Getting the Language Right, designed for health practitioners who write reports, letters, forms and assessments for the NDIS.