Registration groups

NDIS registration group 0118: Early intervention supports for early childhood

Written by James, creator of Bluetail·Published 15 October 2026

Early childhood early intervention for children with developmental delay or disability. Here's what group 0118 covers, who registers for it, the 146 support items funded under it, the groups it's often confused with, and the audit it needs.

What 0118 covers

Early intervention supports for young children with developmental delay or disability and their families, delivered by early childhood professionals: occupational therapists, speech pathologists, psychologists, physiotherapists, therapy assistants and other early childhood professionals.

The NDIS Support Catalogue 2026-27 lists 146 support items under 0118, funded from Improved Daily Living Skills, Assistance with Daily Life budgets. Leaving out the time-of-day, rate-level and claim-type variants, the supports are:

• ECI Professional - Occupational Therapist
• ECI Professional - Speech Pathologist
• ECI Professional - Podiatrist
• ECI Professional - Psychologist
• ECI Professional - Physiotherapist
• ECI Professional - Other Early Childhood Professional
• ECI Professional - Dietitian
• ECI Professional - Therapy Assistant
• ECI Professional - Counsellor
• ECI Professional - Exercise Physiologist
• ECI Professional - Art Therapist
• ECI Professional - Developmental educator
• ECI Professional - Music Therapist
• ECI Professional - Social worker
• ECI Professional - Early Childhood Teacher or Educator
• ECI Professional - Orientation Mobility Specialist

Who registers for 0118

Early childhood intervention providers and therapists who work with young children and their families.

Groups 0118 is often confused with

• 0128 Therapeutic supports is therapy for participants outside the early childhood approach. 0128 is verification, but adding 0118 moves the registration to certification.

Audit: verification or certification?

0118 is a certification group. You are audited against the NDIS Practice Standards Core Module, plus the Early Childhood Supports Module, in two stages, with an onsite visit, interviews with workers and participants, and a mid-term audit. Your audit type is set by the highest of your groups, so registering for 0118 makes your whole registration a certification audit. See verification vs certification audits, how the NDIS audit works and what a certification audit costs.

Groups often registered alongside 0118

• 0128 Therapeutic supports (verification)
• 0110 Specialist positive behaviour support (certification)

Only register for the groups you actually deliver: every extra group adds to what the auditor checks. Our guide to choosing your NDIS registration groups walks through it.

Documents you need for 0118

A certification audit checks your policies, procedures and records against the Core Module: participant rights, governance and operational management, how you deliver supports, and the environment you deliver them in. The auditor then looks for evidence you follow them, through your records and interviews.

The Bluetail registration pack has 82 editable documents pre-filled with your business details, with an allied health view of the 68 documents a therapy practice works from. See the documents you need for NDIS registration and the NDIS provider registration checklist.

Sources: the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission's table of registration groups and audit types, and the NDIA's NDIS Support Catalogue 2026-27. This page is general information to help you prepare for registration. It isn't legal or compliance advice and isn't affiliated with the NDIS Commission or the NDIA. Rules and catalogues change, so confirm your groups and audit type with the NDIS Commission when you apply.