Although the NDIS Review set out a five-year timeframe for reform, many of the items within this bill are needed to modify the NDIS Act and to allow for changes to take place.
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Currently, when someone turns 65 they are not eligible to apply for NDIS support, even if they had disability before then. We asked experts if that should change.
Parents are their child’s first and most important supports. Parents and carers of children with disability need help to maximise this relationship – and the NDIS should provide it.
Developmental delay is viewed clinically as a temporary state where children are slower to develop than expected. It is most often used for children under five.
The increase in children with developmental concerns may flow from the erosion of protective factors that support children during early development.
The NDIS needs to focus on helping people with disability reach their goals rather than what they can’t do. It’s time the NDIS returned to its roots.
How can the concept of ‘evidence-based practice’ be applied to individualised disability support?
In this podcast, former Paralympian Kurt Fearnley, chair of the National Disability Insurance Authority, which implements the scheme, discusses its issues and the road ahead
Making it possible for NDIS participants to choose registered or unregistered providers affords the ‘dignity of risk’.
Some NDIS participants have been unable to find support workers to help them with their daily living. The government needs to do more to attract disability workers.
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
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Bennett Chair of Autism, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Social Researcher, UNSW Sydney
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Senior lecturer, Occupational Therapy, University of South Australia
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Scholarly Fellow, Disability and Community Inclusion, Flinders University, Flinders University
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Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University
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Research Affiliate, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Curtin University
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Professor of Clinical Psychology, Griffith University
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Professor Child adolescent and developmental psychiatry, Monash University
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PhD Research Candidate, School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Director, Griffith Inclusive Futures, Griffith University, Griffith University
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Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Senior Research Fellow, La Trobe University
