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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. 
ndis.gov.au 
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Contents 
Accommodation assistance or tenancy assistance 

Assistance animals 

Assistance in coordinating or managing life stages, transitions and supports 

Assistance to access and maintain employment or higher education 

Assistance with daily life tasks in a group or shared living arrangement 

Assistance with travel or transport arrangements 

Assistive equipment for recreation 

Assistive products for household tasks 

Assistive products for personal care and safety 

Specialist positive behaviour support 

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 
23 
 
 
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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 
ndis.gov.au 
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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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 

Assistance animals 

Assistance in coordinating or managing life stages, transitions and supports 

Assistance to access and maintain employment or higher education 

Assistance with daily life tasks in a group or shared living arrangement 

Assistance with travel or transport arrangements 

Assistive equipment for recreation 

Assistive products for household tasks 

Assistive products for personal care and safety 

Communication and information equipment 

Community nursing care 

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 
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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 
ndis.gov.au 
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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