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NDIS GLOSSARY

Coordination of Supports: a provider to help you implement your NDIS plan and access services.

Formal Supports: any paid carers, government funded organisations or medical specialists who help you.

Informal Supports: any unpaid people who help you, such as family and friends.

Local Area Coordinator (LAC): local organisations working in partnership with the NDIA to help participants, their families and carers access the NDIS.

myplace Participant Portal: where you access your NDIS plan online. The portal also shows how much funding you have available for each service type in your plan. You can access the portal on the NDIS website www.ndis.gov.au

National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA): the NDIA delivers the NDIS. 1800 800 110

National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS): the NDIS is a national program which provides support to people under the age of 65 with a permanent and significant disability.

Participant: a person who is eligible for the NDIS.

Plan: a written agreement worked out with the participant, stating their goals and needs, and the reasonable and necessary supports the NDIS will fund for them.

Provider: an organisation or individual that provides a service through an NDIS package.

National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA)

An independent agency, whose role is to implement the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), which will support a better life for hundreds of thousands of Australians with a significant and permanent disability and their families and carers.

https://ndis.gov.au/

https://www.ndis.gov.au/about-us/publications/booklets-and-factsheets

NDIS Commission https://www.ndiscommission.gov.au/

NDIS Practice Standards

https://www.ndiscommission.gov.au/providers/registered-ndis-providers/provider-obligations-and-requirements/ndis-practice-standards

Communicating with an Autistic Child: A Parent’s Guide

http://www.wiseoldsayings.com/communicating-with-an-autistic-child-a-parents-guide.php

Disability Online

Disability Online provides links to disability resources and events in Australia.
www.disabilityonline.community/homepage

For information on the NDIS Code of Conduct please click below link

https://www.ndiscommission.gov.au/participants/your-rights/ndis-code-conduct

Disability Advocacy Finder: https://disabilityadvocacyfinder.dss.gov.au/disability/ndap/

CORONAVIRUS RESOURCES

Updated DHHS information for Community Services

Information from DHHS re Disability service provision, remember to check it regularly.

https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/information-community-services-coronavirus-covid-19

Disability Liaison Officers

The Disability Liaison Officer (DLO) program aims to help more people with disability access health services, including:

COVID-19 vaccination
advice and prevention through linking people to other health supports.

There are more than 30 DLOs are working with health services across Victoria.

DLOs help with:

providing advice to vaccine and testing sites on how to improve access for people with disability
promotion to assist more people in the disability community get the COVID-19 vaccine
assisting service providers or groups of people with disability to make group bookings

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