
Exercise physiology is the allied health profession that treats exercise as medicine: prescribed, progressed and reviewed like any other therapy. For participants in the National Disability...

Social and community participation is one of the funded supports in an NDIS plan, and its name describes its purpose accurately: it exists so that a...

Choosing a supported independent living provider is a decision about daily life, and it is made at a moment when a family is often tired and...

A family in transition needs a base, and the transition has many shapes: a relocation for work, a renovation that has made the house uninhabitable, a...

Parents usually notice first. A child who avoids drawing, who finds shoes unbearable, who struggles with the morning routine long after their peers have stopped. Each...

Home and living support is the part of an NDIS plan that funds the help a participant needs where they live. It is a broad category...

The provider is the organisation that delivers the supports a plan funds, and the choice of provider decides more about a participant’s experience than most other...

Supported independent living is the part of the scheme that funds help in the home, where the support is delivered to a person whose disability means...

Independence is measured in ordinary tasks: dressing, cooking, getting to the bathroom, managing the shopping, holding down a routine. When injury, illness or disability makes those...

Psychological support funded through the National Disability Insurance Scheme is treatment that the scheme treats as capacity building. It is funded where the participant’s disability includes...