This chapter starts by exploring the differences between the broader disability and mental health sectors, including an outline of their historically separate development, as a way of providing the ‘lens’ through which many of the subsequent challenges
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) provides funding to people with disabilities such as ADHD in order to help them access the supports they need to reach their goals. People with ADHD can access assistance such as speech, occupational and/or behavioural therapy, counselling, and access...
“I want to explain why we created the NDIS, explain how the NDIS lost its way, and explain why we need to reboot the scheme and disability services and supports – you could call this a sort of ‘State of the Union’ address on the NDIS. “When Labor created the NDIS, we thou...
NDIS Planmeans the individualised Plan which outlinesthe Participant’s objectives andinformal supports. Sample 1 Related toNDIS Plan This Planmeans, in a COB provision, the part of the contract providing the health care benefits to which the COB provision applies and which may be reduced because...
Weappreciate the opportunity to provide feedback to this critical element in the NDIS design,and as this paper represents the lived experience of consumers and the expert advice ofAustralia's leading organisations in vision related sensory disability, that the Select Councilaccept and progress the ...