The I-CAN and NDIS support needs assessment: concerns and recommendations from the tool’s former lead author

This article examines the proposed implementation of the I-CAN support needs assessment tool within the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Key concerns relate to the I-CAN being adapted away from a strengths-based, person-centred approach, and implemented within a service-centred paradigm with overreliance on algorithms and the removal of clinical input and clinical judgement. Alternatively, this moment of dramatic redesign of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) could be an opportunity to bring focus to a contribution paradigm, and what value people with disabilities contribute to our society when provided with the right support.