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What can I spend my NDIS funding on?

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CORE SUPPORTS

ASSISTANCE WITH DAILY LIFE

  • Accommodation/tenancy assistance
  • Daily personal activities
  • High intensity daily personal activities
  • Assistance with daily tasks in a group or shared living arrangement
  • Household tasks
  • Assistive products for personal care and safety
  • Repairs to equipment under $500
  • Premade meals, some co-payment required
  • Ironing
  • Yard maintenance
  • Bond clean
  • Short term accommodation, some group holidays
  • On-call overnight monitoring – off or on site
  • Linen service
  • Supported independent living (SIL)
  • Establishing fee
  • Assistance with daily life tasks provided in a residential aged care facility
  • Assistance animals

 

TRANSPORT

  • Specialised transport to school, educational facility, employment, community
  • Transport payment, taxi, worker vehicles

CONSUMABLES

  • Continence alarms
  • Interpreting and translation
  • Continence packages
  • Catheters, bags
  • Pullups, pads
  • Daily adaptive equipment
  • Home enteral nutrition (HEN) products and repairs
  • Wipes, sterilising equipment
  • Bowel management
  • Specialised waste disposal equipment

ASSISTANCE WITH SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

  • Access community, social and recreational activities
  • Group and centre based activities
  • Annual Support (Membership) which exceeds an affordable level and without which the participant would be at risk of social isolation

CAPITAL SUPPORTS

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY

  • Assistive products for personal care and safety
  • Personal mobility equipment
  • Orthotics
  • Prostheses
  • Assistive equipment for recreation
  • Assistive equipment for household tasks
  • Communication and information equipment
  • Vehicle modifications
  • Lifts
  • Hoists and slings
  • Trailer to carry wheelchair
  • Transfer equipment
  • Sit-to-stand chairs
  • Adapted furniture
  • Hearing aids, maintenance, replacement
  • Cochlear ear implant
  • Vision equipment
  • Tactile devices
  • Voice generator
  • Face to face communication assistive products
  • Apps
  • Text to speech devices
  • Head pointer
  • Eye gaze system
  • Braille equipment
  • Environmental control systems
  • Sports wheelchairs
  • Specialised bowling equipment
  • Rental of equipment
  • Repairs of equipment
  • Assistance animals

HOME MODIFICATIONS

  • Assistive products for personal care and safety
  • Elevator
  • Ramps
  • Slip resistant tile coating
  • Certification of approval of home modifications
  • Project manager or building certifier
  • Consultation about home modifications with builder
  • Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA)

CAPACITY BUILDING

COORDINATION OF SUPPORTS

  • Supports Connection
  • Assistance in coordination or managing life stages, transition and supports
  • Supports coordination
  • Training in planning and plan management

 

IMPROVED LIVING ARRANGEMENTS

  • Assistance with accommodation and tenancy obligations

INCREASED SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

  • Life transition planning, including mentoring, peer-support and individual skill development
  • Skills development in a group
  • Innovative community participation
  • Individual skills development and training
  • Community participation activities

FINDING AND KEEPING A JOB

  • Employment related assessment and counselling
  • Assistance in specialised supported employment
  • Individual employment support (time limited)
  • Employment preparation and support in a group
  • Supported employment start up (ADE)
  • Support in employment (ADE)
  • School leaver employment supports (SLES)

IMPROVED RELATIONSHIPS

  • Specialised behaviour intervention support
  • Behaviour management plan
  • Training in behaviour management strategies
  • Individual social skills development

IMPROVED HEALTH AND WELLBEING

  • Dietician consultation and diet plan management
  • Dietician group session
  • Exercise physiology
  • Exercise physiology in a group of 3
  • Personal training

 

IMPROVED LEARNING

  • Transition through school and to further education

 

IMPROVED LIFE CHOICES

  • Plan and financial capacity building
  • Financial and service intermediary

 

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