NDIS

NDIS

• Making your NDIS goals work for you
  We recently spoke with support coordinator, Elizabeth Hickey (AFA Support Coordination) about the importance of goal setting in the NDIS.
  13 December 2022
• The ABCs of the early childhood approach
  The early childhood approach is the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s (NDIS) nationally consistent approach to working with children younger than seven years of age who have a developmental delay or disability – as well as their families. Here’s what to do if you believe your child, or a child you care for, fits into either category.
  22 November 2022
• How you can spend your NDIS funding – everything you need to know
  To help you to better understand how the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) makes decisions about what it will and won’t fund – and to explain the payments My Plan Manager can and can’t process – we’ve pulled together all the information and resources you need.
  22 November 2022
• A roadmap to NDIS travel and transport
  The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) has rules around travel and transport, and what expenses participants can and can’t claim. The NDIA funds a range of expenses associated with provider and participant travel and transport, to help participants achieve their plan goals.
  8 November 2022
• What’s cooking? Using your NDIS funding for meal preparation or delivery
  Sometimes the nature of disability means you might need extra support when it comes to your meals. For some people, it’s support to identify and follow a nutritious and healthy eating plan. For others, it’s upskilling in the kitchen, which could range from needing support to shop for ingredients through to preparing the meal itself.
  28 October 2022
• Stating the case for supports – functional capacity assessments
  National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) funding is designed to support you to live life the way you choose, as an active member of the community and doing meaningful things that are important to you. To understand what level of funding and supports you might need, the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) needs evidence of your disability and information about how it changes your day-to-day life.
  10 October 2022
• Live life your way
  “A package of supports that lets you choose where and how you live in the way that best suits you.” That’s how the National Disability Insurance Agency refers to Individualised Living Options (ILO), a new type of National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) funding that allows people to explore different ways to live (with friends, family, or a host) and design a support package to help them to live the way they choose.
  20 September 2022
• Those three important words: reasonable and necessary
  Before supports can be funded in the NDIS, they need to meet the reasonable and necessary criteria. So what's reasonable and necessary? We explain here.
  13 September 2022
• Three ways to manage a National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) plan - and the pros and cons of each
  Did you know there are three ways to manage your National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) plan? Here is a quick and simple comparison to explain what they are.
  5 April 2022