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NDIS GLOSSARY

NDIS Glossary / Abbreviations

AAT : Administrative Appeals Tribunal
ABI : Acquired Brain Injury
ACCO: Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation
AHPRA :Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
APRA: Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
AQA: Approved Quality Auditing Body
CDS: Community Disability Support
CHSP: Commonwealth Home Support Programme
COAG: Council of Australian Governments
COS: Coordination of Supports
CPD Continuing Professional Development
CRU Community Resource Unit
BSP Behaviour Support Practitioner
EAP: Employee Assistance Program
ECEI: Early Childhood Early Intervention
EEO: Equal Employment Opportunity
FA: Fully Accessible
HACC: Home and Community Care
HPS: High Physical Supports
DDA Disability Discrimination Act
DES Disability Employment Services
DHHS Department of Health and Human Services
DSP Disability Support Pension
IL Improved Liveability
ILC Information, Linkages and Capacity Building
ILO Individual Living Options
LAC Local Area Coordinator
MHA Mental Health Act
MS Multiple Sclerosis
NDIA National Disability Insurance Agency
NDS National Disability Services
NGO Non-Government Organisation
NIA National Insurance Assessment
NQSC NDIS Quality Safeguard Commission
NDIS-PLA NDIS Provider and Participant Learning and Development Program
OT: Occupational Therapist
RP: Restrictive Practices
PBS: Positive Behaviour Supports
PCA: Personal Care Attendant
PIP: Practice Incentive Program
PND: Post Natal Depression
PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PWD: People with Disability
QOL: Quality of Life
RP: Restrictive Practices
SBS Specialist Behaviour Supports
SDA Specialist Disability Accommodation
SSC Specialist SupportCoordination
TAC Transport AccidentCommission
VCAT Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
YPIRAC Young People in Residential Aged Care

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