The NDIS has laudable aims but how much funding will be available to enable participation in arts therapy?
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The NDIS’s aspiration of providing user choice and control represents considerable challenges to disability service providers.
The NDIS provides an opportunity to address the shortfalls of the former institutionalised service system, some of which uniquely impact Indigenous Australians.
Many people eligible for the NDIS are likely to miss out on its benefits. These groups include people who don’t think they have a disability and those who don’t know about the NDIS and how to apply.
Informal early support through intervention programs helps parents understand their child’s newly diagnosed disability. But what will happen when, under the NDIS, these services no longer exist?
Society hasn’t always seen people with disabilities as having the same rights at everyone else. So how did we get to the NDIS, which offers people with disabilities with choice and control?
The National Disability Insurance Scheme has been heralded as the most significant reform since Medicare. So what is it again, how will it work and how can you apply to get funding?
Principales colaboradores
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ARC Research Fellow in Indigenous Health, Disability and Community Development, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT University
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Professor and Head of Music Therapy, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, School of Accounting and Finance, UWA Business School, The University of Western Australia
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Honorary Fellow, Early Childhood Education., Charles Darwin University
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Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
