SDA Assessment for OTs
This course is specifically designed for health professionals, to assist them in completing their sda assessment and report as part of an application for specialist disability accommodation.
Course
2 - 3 Hours
About this course
This course offers a comprehensive template and process to help you support participants in testing their eligibility for Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA). You will learn to identify relevant functional information, apply it to the SDA eligibility criteria, and effectively articulate evidence from an OT perspective in accordance with the legislation.
Ideal for:
Any occupational therapist who supports participants eligible for SDA and needs to learn about SDA assessment.
You’ll learn how to:
- Identify the purpose of an SDA Assessment specific FCA
- Understand what content you need to cover including understanding how to assess a person against the SDA legislation
- Get to know the assessments you might consider using
- Be able to recommend an SDA design and building type
About your instructor
Lauren Hart
Hi there! I’m Lauren Hart, the founder of Optimal Living Therapy and co founder of Otuition. My journey into occupational therapy wasn’t planned, but over the past 10 years, it’s become more than just a job to me – it’s a path of constant learning, adapting, and coming up with fresh ideas.
To me, being an occupational therapist is all about thinking creatively and finding unique solutions to unique problems. It’s ultimately about helping our clients get the most out of their lives and I love that we get to contribute to that.
I’m proud of the work we’ve put into Otuition and I’m excited to bring you these courses. My hope is that these lessons will strengthen your capacity as an OT.
Syllabus
23 Lessons, report template and completed example report
- Course Information
- Introduction & Outcomes
- Purpose and Approach to OT SDA Assessment
- Goals and Issues
- Methods for Assessment
- Report Writing
- Structure for Report Writing
- Background
- Supports
- Housing History
- Home Environment/AT
- Goals
- Barriers and Strengths
- Function
- What to Include in Your SDA Assessment
- Functional Domains
- How to Assess and Quantify Support Needs and Complexities
- Evaluating Your Functional Assessment
- SDA Criteria
- Overview
- Extreme Functional Impairment
- Very High Support Needs
- SDA Needs Rquirements
- Recommendations
- Building Type
- Design Category
- Proposed Model of Support
- On-site Overnight Assistance
- Other Recommendations eg: Equipment or an Interim Solution
More information
SDA Assessment
Navigating the components of Specialist Disability Accommodation is often challenging, especially when it comes to producing reports for participants wanting to test their eligibility for SDA.
As SDA Assessors and clinical OT’s working with people who have complex disabilities, we found ourselves needing to connect two very separate (but important) parts of SDA together: the SDA Design Standards and the SDA Rules Legislation to ensure successful outcomes for participants.
In our experience, it is the practical understanding of the design standards combined with the detailed analysis of the participants needs that deliver a strong and impactful SDA report. We have spent years refining a report template that ties this all together.
Now we want to share all of our knowledge with you.
This course is an in-depth dive into SDA assessment, examining the essential components of the legislation, bringing to life the SDA Design Standards inside a newly-built home and finally, assembling an SDA report
”After this course I felt confident that I knew and understood the process and components which needed to be considered when fabricating an SDA assessment or even before opting for an SDA option for the client. I loved that it provided the structure for the report writing, what to include and examples which was helpful to see what it would look like and for something to refer back to.
GraceOccupational Therapist
