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2022-23 Annual Pricing Review: All you need to know.

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On 16 June 2023, the NDIA released the 2022-2023 Annual Pricing Review (APR) to ensure that appropriate pricing is in place for NDIS participants. The NDIA reviews the Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits (previously called Price Guide) each year to make sure that support services are priced to meet changes to the economy, labour costs

Will the NDIS fund an assistance animal?

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More than just furry friends, assistance animals can support people with disability to live safely, become more independent and complete everyday tasks. Today we take a look at what the NDIS considers when funding assistance animals and the evidence required to support a funding application. What is an assistance animal? The NDIS describes an

Taxi vouchers and transport support.

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Taxi subsidy schemes are a way of providing accessible transport to people who cannot use public transport because of their disability. Each Australian state and territory has a taxi subsidy scheme. However each has different eligibility criteria and works slightly differently. We’ve outlined some starting points for the disability taxi vouchers scheme in each state

Is your child overscheduled? From Source Kids

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Original story It’s easy to feel like you need to jam pack your child’s schedule with therapies and activities to help “catch them up”. But at what point does it become counter-productive? Our friends at Source Kids recently published an insightful story about the effects of overscheduling your child by James Pipe. The story includes

Autism – the lived experience of a parent of autistic kids.

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Dee Thomson is our Leap in! Learning and Development Specialist and a neuro-divergent mum parenting two autistic children. We recently asked her to answer some of our Members’ most commonly asked questions about autism. What should I do if I think my child is autistic? If you are concerned about your child’s development, it’s a

Autism and the NDIS.

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April is World Autism Month, a time to come together to celebrate and to promote understanding and connection to create a more inclusive world. Here at Leap in! we support many autistic people on the NDIS and their families. And autism and the NDIS is one of the topics we get the most questions about.

NDIS fraud: What is it and how you can protect yourself.

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Fraud is about intentionally doing the wrong thing. In the NDIS, this is called non-compliance and it can happen across all areas of the scheme. The NDIA is very clear on what fraud is and how they view it: “The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) has zero tolerance for fraud against the National Disability Insurance

Sports activities: What will the NDIS fund?

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Being both physically and socially active through playing a sport can provide great benefits to your health as well as keep you connected to your community. If playing a sport or joining a sports team is one of your goals, the NDIS may be able to fund disability-related supports to help you get there. Here

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NDIS and autism: The support coordinator advantage.

Preparing for your NDIS plan meeting or plan reassessment.

NDIS support categories explained.

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