NDIS support items, descriptors, and price limits change each quarter. Verify the current line on the NDIS Pricing Arrangements before claiming. This page does not include rate amounts. Last reviewed 28 April 2026.
- Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living
- Psychologist
- Clinical Psychologist
- 3 variants
Psychology — Capacity Building (Improved Daily Living)
Psychology services delivered to NDIS participants under Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living. Covers assessment, individual therapy, training of carers and support workers, and group therapy.
- 15_056_0128_1_3
- 15_058_0128_1_3
- 15_057_0128_1_3
Variants
Variants of this support share the same documentation requirements (below). The line item you claim depends on the service mode.
| Variant | Support item | Typical use |
|---|---|---|
| Assessment, Therapy & Training | 15_056_0128_1_3 | Individual sessions, parent training, support-worker upskilling. |
| Assessment | 15_058_0128_1_3 | Stand-alone diagnostic / functional psychological assessments. |
| Group Therapy | 15_057_0128_1_3 | Group CBT, social skills groups, parent groups. |
What this support covers
- Assessment of disability-related psychological needs and functional impact.
- Individual evidence-based psychological intervention (e.g. CBT, ACT, behavioural interventions).
- Training of family, carers, and support workers to implement strategies.
- Group therapy where it is the most clinically appropriate modality.
- Report writing for NDIS plan reviews, functional capacity assessments, and behaviour support.
Eligibility to claim
- Participant has Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living funding in their current NDIS plan.
- Recommended in a functional capacity assessment, plan goal, or AT report.
- Provider is registered (if required for the participant's plan management) or self-managed / plan-managed participant has chosen the provider.
Your notes must show
Documentation tests — what notes need to demonstrate to satisfy the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission and survive plan review.
- Date, start time, end time, and total face-to-face duration.
- NDIS plan goal(s) the session targets — verbatim from the plan where possible.
- Functional impact being addressed (mobility, communication, social interaction, learning, self-care, or self-management domain).
- Intervention delivered this session, including the modality (e.g. CBT formulation, behavioural skills training).
- Participant response, progress, and any change in measurable indicators.
- Risk and safeguarding observations where clinically relevant.
- Capacity-building evidence — what the participant or their network can now do that they could not do before.
- Plan for next session and review trigger.
Common audit failures
Patterns the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission and NDIA plan reviewers flag.
- Notes describe generic counselling rather than disability-related capacity building.
- No reference to plan goals — Commission auditors flag this as person-centred-practice failure.
- Session duration claimed exceeds the actual face-to-face time.
- Group sessions billed using the individual line item.
- No evidence the participant has Improved Daily Living funding in their plan.
- Capacity-building outcomes not articulated — plan reviewer reduces or removes funding.
Reasonable and necessary criteria
Section 34 of the NDIS Act 2013 — every funded support must satisfy these tests. Documentation should make each test self-evident.
- Linked to participant's disability and functional impact (not generic mental-health support unrelated to disability).
- Effective and beneficial — evidence base for the intervention modality.
- Value for money relative to alternatives.
- Most appropriately funded by the NDIS rather than the health system, education, or other mainstream services.
- Takes account of informal supports already in place.
Related NDIS items
Templates for NDIS providers
Note templates inside Grounded Scribe that produce NDIS-aligned documentation — progress reports, plan-review summaries, functional capacity assessments, behaviour support plans, and session notes that meet Practice Standards.
In-depth reading in the Library
- NDIS Documentation with AI: Writing Compliant Reports FasterNDIS documentation is notoriously time-consuming. AI clinical documentation tools can help allied health practitioners write compliant progress notes, functional assessments, and plan review reports in a fraction of the time.
- NDIS Plan Reassessment Reports: An Allied Health GuideNDIS plan reassessments hinge on demonstrating progress toward goals and identifying continuing functional need. This guide outlines the report structure NDIA decision-makers expect and the common failure modes that result in reduced funding.
- NDIS Functional Capacity Assessment Reports: An OT and Allied Health GuideNDIS Functional Capacity Assessments (FCAs) test access to the scheme and inform funding decisions. The report structure must satisfy the access criteria under s 24 of the NDIS Act and the early-intervention criteria under s 25, while providing the granular detail planners use to size supports.
- NDIS Positive Behaviour Support Plan Documentation: A Practitioner GuideNDIS Positive Behaviour Support practitioners must register on the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission's system and lodge restrictive practice authorisations. This guide outlines the documentation discipline that supports both regulatory compliance and clinical effectiveness.
Source authority
Documentation tests on this page reference the descriptor conditions and Practice Standards covered in our existing Library guides. Always confirm current rules against the official NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Practice Standards.
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