ICF Australian User Guide 
Version 1.0

Full publication (503K PDF)

• Preliminary material (143K PDF)
  • Title and verso pages (HTML)
  • Contents
  • List of tables, appendix tables, figures and boxes
  • Acknowledgments (HTML)
  • Abbreviations (HTML)
• Sections
  • 1. Purpose and outline  (HTML, 197K PDF)
    • 1.1 Introduction
    • 1.2 Purposes of the User Guide 
    • 1.3 For whom is the User Guide written?
    • 1.4 What are the uses of the ICF? 
    • 1.5 What is in this User Guide? 
  • 2. Overview of the ICF (HTML)
    • 2.1 Components of the ICF
    • 2.2 Classifications and codes 
    • 2.3 The ICF and the WHO family of international classifications 
    • 2.4 History and development of the ICF
    • 2.5 Overview of potential and intended uses 
  • 3. Benefits and uses of the ICF for Australia  (HTML, 147K PDF)
    • 3.1 Concerns about definition and classification 
    • 3.2 Benefits of definition and classification 
    • 3.3 Past and emerging uses
    • 3.4 The future 
  • 4. Getting started: general advice on use (HTML, 210K PDF)
  • 5. Activities and Participation: application in Australia  (HTML)
    • 5.1 Activities and Participation in the ICF
    • 5.2 Approaches to delineating Activities and Participation 
    • 5.3 Splitting the domains to delineate Activities and Participation- option (a) 
    • 5.4 Using the qualifiers as the basis for delineating Activities and Participation - options (b) and (d) 
    • 5.5 Qualifiers for Activities and Participation - and A-P delineation
    • 5.6 The 'information matrix' 
    • 5.7 Moving forward on measurement and the qualifiers 
    • 5.8 Advice to users- and how to contribute to national development by recording use in a 'test template'
  • 6. Environmental factors (HTML, 167K PDF)
    • 6.1 Environmental factors and the ICF
    • 6.2 Coding conventions and qualifiers
    • 6.3 Current applications 
  • 7. The ICF and Australian data dictionaries  (HTML)
    • 7.1 The ICF as a framework for national disability data 
    • 7.2 Moving towards national consistency 
    • 7.3 The ICF and national disability data elements 
    • 7.4 Using the national disability data elements
  • 8. Disability identifiers (HTML, 86K PDF)
  • 9. Personal factors (HTML)
  • 10. ICF applications - examples (HTML, 275K PDF)
    • 10.1 Applying the ICF to a national disability services data collection
    • 10.2 The use of the ICF framework in an allied health outcome measure: Australian Therapy Outcome Measures (AusTOMs)
    • 10.3 The ICF and classification for disability athletics
    • 10.4 The ICF and accident compensation in Australia 
    • 10.5 The ICF and speech pathology
    • 10.6 The ICF and Rett Syndrome 
    • 10.7 Classification of support and need
    • 10.8 The Handicap Assessment and Resource Tool (HART) and the ICF 
    • 10.9 The ICF and oral health
• End matter
  • 11. Links and references (HTML, 166K PDF)
  • 11.1 Links 
  • 11.2 References 

Notes and corrections:

Translations and adaptations of this User Guide are being developed by both the French and Nordic Collaborating Centres. Other Centres are in the process of requesting to do so.

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