Resources

NDIS Pre-planning Toolkit for people with disability entering Higher Education or Vocational Education and Training

3 April 2019

Getting the Right Support at the Right Time from the Right People.  The NDIS Pre-planning Toolkit is for people with disability entering Higher Education or Vocational Education and Training is designed to be used before you start a tertiary course at university or with a vocational education and training provider.

Your disability may mean you require extra support to complete your chosen course to ensure your participation is on the same basis as other students. These booklets will help you identify what supports you may need, who is responsible for providing them and how you can access them.

Mental Health and the NDIS

31 March 2019

Mental health and the NDIS

Reimagine.today is co-designed with people living with mental health conditions including psychosocial disability.

Many of the people involved in reimagine.today have lived experience of the NDIS, and have used their experience to help you better understand the NDIS and the  opportunities for people living with psychosocial disability.

reimagine.today will help you understand what the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is and how it can support people living with a mental health condition. If you live with a mental health condition, you may be able to get NDIS funded support if your mental health condition causes you to experience very high levels of ‘psychosocial disability’. Before understanding the NDIS it is important to understand what psychosocial disability is.

NDIS access requirements

3 March 2019

Are you eligible for the NDIS?  Watch this video to learn more about eligibility for the NDIS.

The NDIS Access Checklist will to help you work out if you may be able access the NDIS. 

New Self-Management Guide

30 October 2018

The NDIA has released a Self-Management Guide to assist participants looking to manage their own NDIS plan.

Participant booklets

29 October 2018

Three participant booklets are available to support people with disability and participants throughout their NDIS journey. The booklets are a practical tool to help people with disability, participants, their families, carers and the wider community to learn more about the NDIS, prepare for a planning meeting and to implement their plan.

Videos - key NDIS concepts in Auslan

10 April 2017

A handful of the most common and important NDIS terms have now been translated into Auslan. This will make life easier when spelling out long terms like "information, linkages and capacity building (ILC)", which can now be described in a fast, elegant and logical new Auslan sign.

Other new translations are for these common NDIS terms; 'ordinary life', 'choice and control', 'reasonable and necessary', 'permanent and significant disability', 'informal supports', 'Early Intervention' and 'Local Area Coordinator'.

Webpage - NDIS in Queensland

23 March 2016

This page from the NDIS website gives you detailed information about how the NDIS will roll out across Queensland. There is a video (with captions), regional and metropolitan maps, and information packs for people with disabilities and for service providers. 

Fact sheet - NDIS for Aboriginal people with disability in NSW (1 of 5)

2 March 2016

The New South Wales (NSW) Government has produced a series of 5 fact sheets for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disabilities from NSW.

This is fact sheet 1: NDIS for Aboriginal people with disability in NSW

Fact sheet - Yarnin’ about disability (2 of 5)

2 March 2016

The New South Wales (NSW) Government has produced a series of 5 fact sheets for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disabilities from NSW.

This is Fact sheet 2: Yarnin’ about disability

Fact sheet - Getting ready for the NDIS (4 of 5)

2 March 2016

The New South Wales (NSW) Government has produced a series of 5 fact sheets for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disabilities from NSW.

This is Fact sheet 4: Getting ready for the NDIS