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It’s all in the timing

Sally Coddington
Disability Service Consulting (DSC)
Monday 7th September, 2020
Have you ever wondered how planners decide how much Support Coordination funding goes into a plan? At times the process seems about as random as throwing a dart at a
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Fight against NDIS independent assessments ramps up

Maggie Coggan
Pro Bono News
Tuesday 15th September, 2020
On Friday, hundreds of people gathered at virtual and physically distanced “snap action” events across the country, calling on the government to throw out plans that will force NDIS participants
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Overview of responses to the first Education and learning Issues paper

Disability Royal Commission
Tuesday 8th September, 2020

Responses to the issues paper about education and learning for people with disability have been received from individuals including people with disability, family members of people with disability, advocates, organisations…

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Government appoints independent assessors to make the NDIS ‘fair and consistent’

Caitlin Fitzsimmons
SMH
Sunday 13th September, 2020
The government is appointing independent assessors to review everyone on the National Disability Insurance Scheme to ensure the funding is fairly distributed and not just given to "those who can
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NDIA releases new Functional Capacity Framework

Mirage News
Monday 7th September, 2020
The NDIA has today released a new NDIS Functional Capacity Assessment Framework – the evidence base and principles to inform the introduction of best practice Independent Assessments.
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Disability advocates fear new NDIS assessment process will be traumatic and limit access to the scheme

Sally Whyte
Canberra Times
Sunday 6th September, 2020
Mr Wallace has been a disability activist for decades, but he hasn't yet spoken out about this incident, even though it happened almost 40 years ago. He is sharing it
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Self Manager Hub

The Growing Space and Community Disability Alliance Hunter
Monday 7th September, 2020
The Self Manager Hub has more than 400 resources to give you ideas and help you self manage an NDIS plan. It's for anyone who is self managing NDIS funding
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Tips for Being Deaf-Aware

AI Media
Wednesday 2nd September, 2020
As well as the essential tips for being Deaf-aware, learn all about the spectrum of deafness, deaf communication styles, and how to chat to a Deaf person if you are
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Supporting people with cognitive disabilities to access supported decision making in contracts for goods and services

DARU
Wednesday 29th July, 2020
This was the second session of the Advocacy Sector Conversations forum held on Zoom webinar for the first time, on 29 July 2020 (due to COVID-19 event restrictions not allowing
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Non-verbal adults with severe disabilities to be consulted about their play needs

Ainslie Drewitt Smit
ABC Illawarra
Saturday 5th September, 2020
When Bodhi Dreyfus-Ballesi, 25, is happy, he will jump, clap and slap the top of his head. Now for the first time, his non-verbal expressions will be used as vital
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Narrow leadership, poor decisions

Christina Ryan
Disability Leadership Institute
Saturday 29th August, 2020
What happens when an entire population group is absent from decision making forums? It makes it possible to forget them. The people who are most affected and should be central
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Out of Tune: Government Responds to the Tune Review

Sara Gingold
Disability Service Consulting (DSC)
Thursday 3rd September, 2020
The response is so full of government doublespeak and responses with no discernible relationship to the recommendation that it’s taken us a full week to even understand as much as
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