Nature

Disability Assessment and Quality of Life

Understanding and measuring disability is essential for improving quality of life in both clinical and public health domains. Disability assessment instruments, such as the World Health Organization ...
Fierce Healthcare

Marker Learning scores $15M to continue bringing down the cost of learning disability assessments

Marker Learning scored $15 million in series A funding from investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Richard Branson’s Virgin Group to continue the platform’s mission of bringing learning support ...
The Courier-Mail

Costly NDIS medical reports to prove disability scrapped in favour of interview with internal assessor

At the moment participants who seek funds need to prove they have a disability in order to get support. Often that comes in the guise of expensive medical reports from GPs, specialists or allied ...
The Conversation

NDIS independent assessments are off the table for now. That’s a good thing — the evidence wasn’t there

Helen Dickinson receives funding from ARC, NHMRC, the Commonwealth Government and Children and Young People with Disability Australia. Anne Kavanagh receives funding from NHMRC, ARC, and the Victorian ...