Ahead of Thursday’s release of the review into NDIS, the states have agreed to provide more and expanded services for people with disability in exchange for an extension of the GST top-up.
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What fell away when the NDIS was rolled out? And what are the chances of such services being revived?
We’re getting better at early identification and adult diagnosis has contributed to NDIS numbers. But functional impairment is likely to be given greater emphasis in the NDIS reboot.
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.
In this podcast, Greens Senator and disability advocate Jordon Steele-John, who campaigned for the Royal Commission, joins The Conversation to give us his take on the report.
The new Quarterly Essay weaves personal history and detailed policy analysis, examining the unintended consequences of the NDIS, and how we can best realise the scheme’s original intent.
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.
Many students with a disability are bullied, excluded and do not feel welcome in Australian schools. They cannot be ignored in the next National School Reform Agreement.
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 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.
Intended to be a no-fault insurance scheme for Australians with severe and permanent disability, the NDIS has changed lives but also been the subject of controversy in its first decade.
How can the concept of ‘evidence-based practice’ be applied to individualised disability support?
Top contributors
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW
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Adjunct Professor, Summer Disability Research Centre, La Trobe University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Research Fellow, La Trobe University
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Deputy Director, The Kids Research Institute Australia, Professor of Autism Research, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, University of Sydney; RMIT University
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Senior Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Disability Program, Grattan Institute
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Disability Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Professor & Senior Principal Research Fellow, The Kids Research Institute Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Accounting, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Clinical Psychology, Griffith University
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Vice Chancellor's Principal Research Fellow, RMIT University
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Professor of Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Humanities and Social Sciences (La Trobe University); Honorary Fellow, School of Health and Social Development (Deakin University), La Trobe University