Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify needs of clients with a disability.
- Identify individual preferences in consultation with client according to organisational policies and procedures and relevant legislation.
- Identify support requirements of people with a disability in consultation with appropriate personnel.
- Identify potential and real barriers to participation and identify strategies to address them.
- Access and provide information on options and services available to people with a disability.
- Assist in developing community awareness of the needs of people with a disability.
- Assist people with a disability to participate in networks.
- Identify key people and organisations that can help people with a disability maximise their independence and inclusion.
- Communicate roles and responsibilities of key people and their organisations to people with a disability using appropriate communication strategies.
- Assist people with a disability to participate in their own personal networks.
- Identify opportunities to develop and maintain supportive connections with key people on an individual basis according to organisational policies and procedures.
- Identify recreation opportunities for people with a disability.
- Identify individual's current skills and interests and identify recreation opportunities which provide maximum chance of participation.
- Identify strategies to link people with a disability to recreation opportunities.
- Provide information and resources, including assistive technology, to facilitate participation in recreation activities.
- Identify and establish effective environments for participation of people with a disability.
- Monitor, review and adjust the strategies that link people with a disability to recreation opportunities.
- Identify opportunities beyond the program or activity and communicate them to people with a disability.