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Supports that are ‘NDIS
supports’
There are 37 groupings of ‘NDIS supports’.
The groupings include:
• high-level description of supports
• class of participants
• detailed description of supports.
It also shows how the supports fit within both the provider
registration groups and the support categories that are included in
NDIS plans.
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Contents
Accommodation assistance or tenancy assistance
4
Assistance animals
4
Assistance in coordinating or managing life stages, transitions and supports
5
Assistance to access and maintain employment or higher education
5
Assistance with daily life tasks in a group or shared living arrangement
6
Assistance with travel or transport arrangements
6
Assistive equipment for recreation
7
Assistive products for household tasks
8
Assistive products for personal care and safety
8
Specialist positive behaviour support
9
Communication and information equipment
10
Community nursing care
10
Customised prosthetics (includes Orthotics)
11
Daily personal activities
12
Development of daily care and life skills
12
Disability-related health supports
13
Early intervention supports for early childhood
13
Exercise physiology and personal well-being activities
14
Group and centre based activities
15
Hearing equipment
15
High intensity daily personal activities
15
Home modification design and construction
16
Household tasks
16
Innovative community participation
17
Interpreting and translation
17
Management of funding for supports
17
Participation in community, social and civic activities
18
Personal mobility equipment
18
Specialist disability accommodation (SDA)
19
Specialised driver training
19
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Specialised hearing services
19
Specialised supported employment
20
Support coordination
20
Therapeutic supports
21
Vehicle modifications
21
Vision equipment
22
National Disability Insurance Agency
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Accommodation assistance or tenancy
assistance
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
Supports that build capacity, guide, prompt, or assist a participant to do activities for
finding or keeping appropriate accommodation.
This includes:
• supports that help a participant apply for a rental tenancy or to take part in
tenancy obligations in line with their tenancy agreement.
• medium term accommodation where a participant cannot move into long term
accommodation due to that accommodation or other supports not being ready
and current accommodation is not suitable.
Assistance animals
Class of participant
Participants who have this support specifically identified in their plan.
Detailed description of support
Support provided by an eligible assistance animal.
This includes:
• assessment, matching and provision of an eligible assistance animal
• dietary needs
• grooming
• veterinary services including flea and worm treatments, medication, and
vaccinations.
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• yearly reviews to maintain accreditation.
Assistance in coordinating or managing life
stages, transitions and supports
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
Supports provided on a short-term basis that provide assistance to manage life
transitions.
This includes:
• transition from or to new educational settings or employment settings
• transition to new living arrangements
• support before and immediately following hospital discharge where there has
been a change to a disability participant’s support needs prior to
hospitalisation
• transition out of a mental health setting
• transition out of a custodial setting.
Assistance to access and maintain
employment or higher education
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
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Supports that build a participant’s capacity to successfully prepare for, find or keep
employment in the open labour market (including self-employment and micro-
enterprise) or the supported labour market.
This includes:
• employment preparation complementary to that delivered while at school and
when leaving school
• assistance for a participant to transition to employment
• further education and training.
Assistance with daily life tasks in a group or
shared living arrangement
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
Supports that provide assistance with or supervision of daily living tasks to
participants in a shared living environment.
This includes:
• supports provided on a temporary or ongoing basis
• supports for short term accommodation and respite
• supports provided to participants living in residential aged care facilities.
Assistance with travel or transport
arrangements
Class of participant
General.
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Detailed description of support
Supports that provide transport assistance to participants that cannot travel or use
public transport independently.
This includes:
• transport for the purposes of participants undertaking community-based
activities
• transport for the purposes of participants attending school or other
educational facilities
• provider travel costs
• costs associated with the use of taxis or private transport
• in-kind specialist school support
• travel training to build a participant’s confidence and skills to use public
transport safely and independently.
Assistive equipment for recreation
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
The provision of assistive products used in sports or other recreational activities.
This includes:
• personal recreation equipment modification and sporting equipment
modification
• services to assess and prescribe, deliver, adjust and train a participant in
successful use of an assistive product
• maintenance, spare parts and consumable items specific to an assistive
product.
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Assistive products for household tasks
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
The provision of assistive products that support a participant to carry out domestic
and everyday actions and tasks within a participant’s home.
This includes:
• assistive products for the preparation of food and drink
• assistive products to facilitate house cleaning, gardening or laundry
• additional costs to upgrade or modify standard household items to household
items that include accessibility features that address a participant’s support
needs
• services to assess and prescribe, deliver, adjust and train a participant in the
successful use of an assistive product
• maintenance, spare parts and consumable items specific to an assistive
product.
Assistive products for personal care and safety
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
Provision of assistive products for self-care activities and participation in self-care.
This includes:
• modified foods including for the purposes of percutaneous endoscopic
gastronomy (PEG) feeding
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• products to facilitate washing and drying the participant’s body, caring for the
participant’s body and body parts, dressing and protecting the participant’s
body
• modified or adaptive clothing
• modified or adaptive products to manage menstruation including applicators
and period underwear
• products to manage incontinence
• furniture and other products that are adapted or specifically made to be
placed in or added to a participant’s home (including indoor and outdoor
areas) to help with movement, positioning and other safety needs, including
entry and exit of the environment
• services to assess and prescribe, deliver, adjust and train a participant in the
successful use of an assistive product
• maintenance, spare parts and consumable items specific to an assistive
product
• visual and tactile alerting systems.
Specialist positive behaviour support
Class of participant
Participants who have this support specifically identified in their plan.
Detailed description of support
Supports that are provided by professionals with specialist skills in positive behaviour
support.
This includes:
• assessment, development and delivery of a comprehensive plan that aims to
reduce and manage behaviours of concern
• training and ongoing monitoring of staff in implementation of a behaviour
support plan
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• training and capacity building for a participant’s informal supports in the use of
positive behaviour support
• development and delivery of interim or transitional plans.
Communication and information equipment
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
The provision of assistive products to support communication and information
management.
This includes:
• products that help a participant to receive, send, produce and/or process
information in different forms
• products that facilitate a participant communicating by language, signs and
symbols, receiving and producing messages, having conversations and using
communication devices and techniques
• services to assess and prescribe, deliver, adjust and train a participant in the
successful use of an assistive product
• maintenance, spare parts and consumable items specific to an assistive
product.
Community nursing care
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
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Supports that provide disability-related nursing care for participants with high care
needs (not including high intensity daily personal activities), requiring a high level of
clinical skill.
This includes:
• catheter care
• skin integrity checks
• tracheostomy care
• medication management
• intramuscular injections
• training of support workers to respond to a participant’s complex needs.
Customised prosthetics (includes Orthotics)
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
Assistive products externally applied to replace, wholly or in part an absent or
deficient body segment which assists participant control and functioning of their
neuromuscular skeletal systems.
This includes:
• design, manufacture and fit of customised functional prosthetics and orthotics
• assessment and specification (prescription) of a product by a professionally
qualified prosthetist, orthotist, pedorthotist, podiatrist, or occupational therapist
trained in provision of that product
• osseo-integrated, external products
• services to train a participant in successful use of an assistive product
• maintenance, spare parts and consumable items specific to an assistive
product.
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Daily personal activities
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
Supports that provide supervision or assistance with personal daily living tasks to
help a participant to live as independently as possible in their own home and in the
community.
This includes:
• assistance with eating and drinking, dressing and toileting
• maintaining personal hygiene, including showering, bathing, hair washing and
drying, fingernail and toenail cutting and cleaning
• moving and positioning
• in-kind personal care in school.
Development of daily care and life skills
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
Supports that provide training and development activities for participants or carers to
increase ability to live as independently as possible (including as part of
psychosocial recovery supports).
This includes increasing the participant’s ability to independently undertake the
following activities:
• shopping
• meal preparation
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• managing finances
• managing a participant’s own personal care
• travel and use public transport
• engage in social activities
• improve relationship and social skills.
Disability-related health supports
Class of participant
Participants who have this support specifically identified in their plan.
Detailed description of support
Health supports that relate to the functional impact of a participant’s disability.
This includes:
• supports, services and assistive products to manage dysphagia, diabetes,
continence, wound and pressure care, respiration, nutrition, podiatry and foot
care, and seizures
• supports for people with complex communication access needs or behaviours
when accessing health or mental health services, including hospitals and in-
patient facilities
• specialist allied health services and supports that facilitate enhanced
functioning and community re-integration of people with recently acquired
severe conditions including newly acquired spinal cord and severe acquired
brain injury
• training support workers, family and friends to perform roles where
appropriate.
Early intervention supports for early childhood
Class of participant
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General.
Detailed description of support
Supports that are evidence-based early childhood intervention supports for children
0-9 years (including children aged 0-6 with developmental delay) and their families to
achieve better long-term outcomes for the child.
This includes:
• therapy provided by allied health professionals including speech pathologists
and occupational therapists
• a key worker for a child’s family.
Exercise physiology and personal well-being
activities
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
Supports that maintain or increase physical mobility or well-being through personal
training or exercise physiology to address the functional impact of the participant’s
disability.
This includes:
• accessing services from an appropriately qualified professional
• assessment and development of a personalised exercise program which aims
to increase or maintain a participant’s functional capacity
• maintenance of muscle strength, range of motion, balance and mobility.
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Group and centre based activities
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
Supports for participants to access and participate in community, social, cultural and
recreational activities that are provided in a group setting, either in the community or
in a centre.
Hearing equipment
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
The provision of hearing equipment directly related to a participant’s permanent
hearing impairment that is not provided through the Hearing Services Program for
the participant.
High intensity daily personal activities
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
Supports that assist a participant with complex needs to undertake high intensity
daily personal activities.
These supports must be provided by a worker with additional qualifications and
experience relevant to the participant’s complex or psychosocial needs.
This includes:
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• a suitably qualified worker undertaking the activities
• a suitably qualified worker supervising the participant or another person in the
participant’s support network undertaking the activities.
Home modification design and construction
Class of participant
Participants who have this support specifically identified in their plan.
Detailed description of support
Supports that design, change or modify a participant’s home to help the participant
live as independently as possible and to live safely at home.
This includes:
• installing equipment or changing a building’s structure, fixture or fittings
• internal and external building modifications to remedy damage arising
exclusively from disability-related behaviours or use of NDIS funded assistive
technology or equipment
• regulatory certification requirements for works.
Household tasks
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
Supports that provide assistance with essential household tasks that a participant is
not able to do themselves because of their disability.
This includes:
• meal preparation and delivery
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• house or yard maintenance
• cleaning and laundry.
Innovative community participation
Class of participant
Participants who have this support specifically identified in their plan.
Detailed description of support
Supports that are tailored for individual participants with extraordinary support needs
to assist them to participate in the community. Extraordinary support needs arise due
to a participant’s specific situational and personal circumstances.
Interpreting and translation
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
Supports that assist a participant with independent communication in personal,
social, cultural or community activities where translation and interpretation is needed
as a result of their disability.
Management of funding for supports
Class of participant
Participants who have this support specifically identified in their plan.
Detailed description of support
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Supports provided by a registered plan management provider to manage the funding
of supports under a participant’s plan.
Participation in community, social and civic
activities
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
Supports that assist a participant to take part in community, social, cultural and civic
activities.
This includes:
• supporting participants during relevant activities
• working with participants to develop their ability to partake in these activities.
Personal mobility equipment
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
The provision of personal mobility equipment that supports or replaces a participant’s
capacity to move indoors and outdoors and to transfer from one place to another.
This includes:
• assistive products for walking
• wheelchairs and motorised mobility devices
• transfer devices and hoists
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• services to train a participant in successful use of equipment provided
• maintenance, spare parts and consumable items specific to equipment
provided.
Specialist disability accommodation (SDA)
Class of participant
Participants who have this support specifically identified in their plan.
Detailed description of support
The provision of specialist disability accommodation which is accommodation for a
participant who requires specialist housing solutions, including to assist with the
delivery of supports that cater for the person’s extreme functional impairment or very
high support needs.
Specialised driver training
Class of participant
Participants who have this support specifically identified in their plan.
Detailed description of support
Supports that provide driver training with a specialised vehicle driving instructor.
Supports that provide training on the use of adapted equipment or vehicle
modifications.
Specialised hearing services
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
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Specialist audiological services provided by an allied health professional for
participants with complex needs.
This includes:
• assessing hearing impairment
• prescription of audiological aids and equipment.
Specialised supported employment
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
Supports that provide a participant with assistance to prepare for, find and retain a
job in the participant’s employment setting of choice.
Support coordination
Class of participant
Participants who have this support specifically identified in their plan.
Detailed description of support
Supports that assist participants to connect with informal community and funded
supports (including as part of psychosocial recovery supports).
This includes:
• building a participant’s capacity to connect with supports
• assisting participants to understand and utilise their plan
• connecting with providers and mainstream services
• addressing barriers and reducing complexity in the support environment.
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Therapeutic supports
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
Supports that provide evidence-based therapy to help participants improve or
maintain their functional capacity in areas such as language and communication,
personal care, mobility and movement, interpersonal interactions, functioning
(including psychosocial functioning) and community living.
This includes an assessment by health professionals for support planning and review
as required.
Vehicle modifications
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
The provision of assistive products that can be added to vehicles or modifications
made to vehicles that help a participant to operate, enter, exit or ride in the vehicle
safely.
This includes:
• passenger and wheelchair hoists
• modified controls
• modified restraints and modified car seats
• certification costs for registration and additional vehicle insurance premium
costs as a direct result of the modification
• services to assess and prescribe, deliver, adjust and train a participant in
successful use of an assistive product or modification
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• maintenance, spare parts and consumable items specific to an assistive
product or modification.
This support does not include the purchase of a vehicle.
Vision equipment
Class of participant
General.
Detailed description of support
The provision of products for navigation, orientation, braille, magnifiers and note
taking equipment.
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National Disability Insurance Agency
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Telephone 1800 800 110
Webchat ndis.gov.au
Fol ow us on our social channels
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn
For people who need help with English
TIS: 131 450
For people who are deaf or hard of hearing
TTY: 1800 555 677
Voice relay: 1800 555 727
National Relay Service: relayservice.gov.au
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DOCUMENT 2
Supports that are ‘NDIS
supports’
There are 37 categories of goods and services that are ‘NDIS
supports’.
NDIS supports are the services, items and equipment that can be
funded by the NDIS.
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Contents
Accommodation assistance or tenancy assistance
4
Assistance animals
4
Assistance in coordinating or managing life stages, transitions and supports
5
Assistance to access and maintain employment or higher education
5
Assistance with daily life tasks in a group or shared living arrangement
6
Assistance with travel or transport arrangements
6
Assistive equipment for recreation
7
Assistive products for household tasks
7
Assistive products for personal care and safety
8
Communication and information equipment
9
Community nursing care
9
Customised prosthetics (includes Orthotics)
10
Daily personal activities
10
Development of daily care and life skills
11
Disability-related health supports
11
Early intervention supports for early childhood
12
Exercise physiology and personal well-being activities
12
Group and centre based activities
12
Hearing equipment
12
High intensity daily personal activities
13
Home modification design and construction
13
Household tasks
13
Innovative community participation
14
Interpreting and translation
14
Management of funding for supports
14
Participation in community, social and civic activities
14
Personal mobility equipment
15
Specialist positive behaviour support
15
Specialist disability accommodation (SDA)
15
Specialised driver training
16
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Specialised hearing services
16
Specialised supported employment
16
Support coordination
16
Therapeutic supports
17
Vehicle modifications
17
Vision equipment
17
National Disability Insurance Agency
18
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Accommodation assistance or tenancy
assistance
Supports that build capacity, guide, prompt, or assist a participant to do activities for
finding or keeping appropriate accommodation.
This includes:
• supports that help a participant apply for a rental tenancy or to take part in
tenancy obligations in line with their tenancy agreement
• medium term accommodation where a participant cannot move into long term
accommodation due to that accommodation or other supports not being ready
and current accommodation is not suitable.
Assistance animals
Support provided by an eligible assistance animal.
This includes:
• assessment, matching and provision of an eligible assistance animal
• dietary needs
• grooming
• veterinary services including flea and worm treatments, medication, and
vaccinations
• yearly reviews to maintain accreditation.
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Assistance in coordinating or managing life
stages, transitions and supports
Supports provided on a short-term basis that provide assistance to manage life
transitions.
This includes:
• transition from or to new educational settings or employment settings
• transition to new living arrangements
• support before and immediately following hospital discharge where there has
been a change to a disability participant’s support needs prior to
hospitalisation
• transition out of a mental health setting
• transition out of a custodial setting.
Assistance to access and maintain
employment or higher education
Supports that build a participant’s capacity to successfully prepare for, find or keep
employment in the open labour market (including self-employment and micro-
enterprise) or the supported labour market.
This includes:
• employment preparation complementary to that delivered while at school and
when leaving school
• assistance for a participant to transition to employment
• further education and training.
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Assistance with daily life tasks in a group or
shared living arrangement
Supports that provide assistance with or supervision of daily living tasks to
participants in a shared living environment.
This includes:
• supports provided on a temporary or ongoing basis
• supports for short term accommodation and respite
• supports provided to participants living in residential aged care facilities.
Assistance with travel or transport
arrangements
Supports that provide transport assistance to participants that cannot travel or use
public transport independently.
This includes:
• transport for the purposes of participants undertaking community-based
activities
• transport for the purposes of participants attending school or other
educational facilities
• provider travel costs
• costs associated with the use of taxis or private transport
• in-kind specialist school support
• travel training to build a participant’s confidence and skills to use public
transport safely and independently.
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Assistive equipment for recreation
The provision of assistive products used in sports or other recreational activities.
This includes:
• personal recreation equipment modification and sporting equipment
modification
• services to assess and prescribe, deliver, adjust and train a participant in
successful use of an assistive product
• maintenance, spare parts and consumable items specific to an assistive
product.
Assistive products for household tasks
The provision of assistive products that support a participant to carry out domestic
and everyday actions and tasks within a participant’s home.
This includes:
• assistive products for the preparation of food and drink
• assistive products to facilitate house cleaning, gardening or laundry
• additional costs to upgrade or modify standard household items to household
items that include accessibility features that address a participant’s support
needs
• services to assess and prescribe, deliver, adjust and train a participant in the
successful use of an assistive product
• maintenance, spare parts and consumable items specific to an assistive
product.
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Assistive products for personal care and safety
Provision of assistive products for self-care activities and participation in self-care.
This includes:
• modified foods including for the purposes of percutaneous endoscopic
gastronomy (PEG) feeding
• products to facilitate washing and drying the participant’s body, caring for the
participant’s body and body parts, dressing and protecting the participant’s
body
• modified or adaptive clothing
• modified or adaptive products to manage menstruation including applicators
and period underwear
• products to manage incontinence
• furniture and other products that are adapted or specifically made to be
placed in or added to a participant’s home (including indoor and outdoor
areas) to help with movement, positioning and other safety needs, including
entry and exit of the environment
• services to assess and prescribe, deliver, adjust and train a participant in the
successful use of an assistive product
• maintenance, spare parts and consumable items specific to an assistive
product
• visual and tactile alerting systems.
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Communication and information equipment
The provision of assistive products to support communication and information
management.
This includes:
• products that help a participant to receive, send, produce and/or process
information in different forms
• products that facilitate a participant communicating by language, signs and
symbols, receiving and producing messages, having conversations and using
communication devices and techniques
• services to assess and prescribe, deliver, adjust and train a participant in the
successful use of an assistive product
• maintenance, spare parts and consumable items specific to an assistive
product.
Community nursing care
Supports that provide disability-related nursing care for participants with high care
needs (not including high intensity daily personal activities), requiring a high level of
clinical skill.
This includes:
• catheter care
• skin integrity checks
• tracheostomy care
• medication management
• intramuscular injections
• training of support workers to respond to a participant’s complex needs.
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Customised prosthetics (includes Orthotics)
Assistive products externally applied to replace, wholly or in part an absent or
deficient body segment which assists participant control and functioning of their
neuromuscular skeletal systems.
This includes:
• design, manufacture and fit of customised functional prosthetics and orthotics
• assessment and specification (prescription) of a product by a professionally
qualified prosthetist, orthotist, pedorthotist, podiatrist, or occupational therapist
trained in provision of that product
• osseo-integrated, external products
• services to train a participant in successful use of an assistive product
• maintenance, spare parts and consumable items specific to an assistive
product.
Daily personal activities
Supports that provide supervision or assistance with personal daily living tasks to
help a participant to live as independently as possible in their own home and in the
community.
This includes:
• assistance with eating and drinking, dressing and toileting
• maintaining personal hygiene, including showering, bathing, hair washing and
drying, fingernail and toenail cutting and cleaning
• moving and positioning
• in-kind personal care in school.
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Development of daily care and life skills
Supports that provide training and development activities for participants or carers to
increase ability to live as independently as possible (including as part of
psychosocial recovery supports).
This includes increasing the participant’s ability to independently undertake the
following activities:
• shopping
• meal preparation
• managing finances
• managing a participant’s own personal care
• travel and use public transport
• engage in social activities
• improve relationship and social skills.
Disability-related health supports
Health supports that relate to the functional impact of a participant’s disability.
This includes:
• supports, services and assistive products to manage dysphagia, diabetes,
continence, wound and pressure care, respiration, nutrition, podiatry and foot
care, and seizures
• supports for people with complex communication access needs or behaviours
when accessing health or mental health services, including hospitals and
in-patient facilities
• specialist allied health services and supports that facilitate enhanced
functioning and community re-integration of people with recently acquired
severe conditions including newly acquired spinal cord and severe acquired
brain injury
• training support workers, family and friends to perform roles where
appropriate.
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Early intervention supports for early childhood
Supports that are evidence-based early childhood intervention supports for children
0-9 years (including children aged 0-6 with developmental delay) and their families to
achieve better long-term outcomes for the child.
This includes:
• therapy provided by allied health professionals including speech pathologists
and occupational therapists
• a key worker for a child’s family.
Exercise physiology and personal well-being
activities
Supports that maintain or increase physical mobility or well-being through personal
training or exercise physiology to address the functional impact of the participant’s
disability.
This includes:
• accessing services from an appropriately qualified professional
• assessment and development of a personalised exercise program which aims
to increase or maintain a participant’s functional capacity
• maintenance of muscle strength, range of motion, balance and mobility.
Group and centre based activities
Supports for participants to access and participate in community, social, cultural and
recreational activities that are provided in a group setting, either in the community or
in a centre.
Hearing equipment
The provision of hearing equipment directly related to a participant’s permanent
hearing impairment that is not provided through the Hearing Services Program for
the participant.
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High intensity daily personal activities
Supports that assist a participant with complex needs to undertake high intensity
daily personal activities.
These supports must be provided by a worker with additional qualifications and
experience relevant to the participant’s complex or psychosocial needs.
This includes:
• a suitably qualified worker undertaking the activities
• a suitably qualified worker supervising the participant or another person in the
participant’s support network undertaking the activities.
Home modification design and construction
Supports that design, change or modify a participant’s home to help the participant
live as independently as possible and to live safely at home.
This includes:
• installing equipment or changing a building’s structure, fixture or fittings
• internal and external building modifications to remedy damage arising
exclusively from disability-related behaviours or use of NDIS funded assistive
technology or equipment
• regulatory certification requirements for works.
Household tasks
Supports that provide assistance with essential household tasks that a participant is
not able to do themselves because of their disability.
This includes:
• meal preparation and delivery
• house or yard maintenance
• cleaning and laundry.
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Innovative community participation
Supports that are tailored for individual participants with extraordinary support needs
to assist them to participate in the community. Extraordinary support needs arise due
to a participant’s specific situational and personal circumstances.
Interpreting and translation
Supports that assist a participant with independent communication in personal,
social, cultural or community activities where translation and interpretation is needed
as a result of their disability.
Management of funding for supports
Supports provided by a registered plan management provider to manage the funding
of supports under a participant’s plan.
Participation in community, social and civic
activities
Supports that assist a participant to take part in community, social, cultural and civic
activities.
This includes:
• supporting participants during relevant activities
• working with participants to develop their ability to partake in these activities.
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Personal mobility equipment
The provision of personal mobility equipment that supports or replaces a participant’s
capacity to move indoors and outdoors and to transfer from one place to another.
This includes:
• assistive products for walking
• wheelchairs and motorised mobility devices
• transfer devices and hoists
• services to train a participant in successful use of equipment provided
• maintenance, spare parts and consumable items specific to equipment
provided.
Specialist positive behaviour support
Supports that are provided by professionals with specialist skills in positive behaviour
support.
This includes:
• assessment, development and delivery of a comprehensive plan that aims to
reduce and manage behaviours of concern
• training and ongoing monitoring of staff in implementation of a behaviour
support plan
• training and capacity building for a participant’s informal supports in the use of
positive behaviour support
• development and delivery of interim or transitional plans.
Specialist disability accommodation (SDA)
The provision of specialist disability accommodation which is accommodation for a
participant who requires specialist housing solutions, including to assist with the
delivery of supports that cater for the person’s extreme functional impairment or very
high support needs.
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Specialised driver training
Supports that provide driver training with a specialised vehicle driving instructor.
Supports that provide training on the use of adapted equipment or vehicle
modifications.
Specialised hearing services
Specialist audiological services provided by an allied health professional for
participants with complex needs.
This includes:
• assessing hearing impairment
• prescription of audiological aids and equipment.
Specialised supported employment
Supports that provide a participant with assistance to prepare for, find and retain a
job in the participant’s employment setting of choice.
Support coordination
Supports that assist participants to connect with informal community and funded
supports (including as part of psychosocial recovery supports).
This includes:
• building a participant’s capacity to connect with supports
• assisting participants to understand and utilise their plan
• connecting with providers and mainstream services
• addressing barriers and reducing complexity in the support environment.
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Therapeutic supports
Supports that provide evidence-based therapy to help participants improve or
maintain their functional capacity in areas such as language and communication,
personal care, mobility and movement, interpersonal interactions, functioning
(including psychosocial functioning) and community living.
This includes an assessment by health professionals for support planning and review
as required.
Vehicle modifications
The provision of assistive products that can be added to vehicles or modifications
made to vehicles that help a participant to operate, enter, exit or ride in the vehicle
safely.
This includes:
• passenger and wheelchair hoists
• modified controls
• modified restraints and modified car seats
• certification costs for registration and additional vehicle insurance premium
costs as a direct result of the modification
• services to assess and prescribe, deliver, adjust and train a participant in
successful use of an assistive product or modification
• maintenance, spare parts and consumable items specific to an assistive
product or modification.
This support does not include the purchase of a vehicle.
Vision equipment
The provision of products for navigation, orientation, braille, magnifiers and note
taking equipment.
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National Disability Insurance Agency
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