NDIS Information
What is the NDIS?
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is how people with a disability, and their carers, now receive support services. Youth Living Skills provides NDIS therapy for children, and our psychology and occupational therapy services in Sydney can be funded by the NDIS.
- Assistance with activities of daily living (self-care) and other day to day tasks
- Assistive technology
- Home modifications
- Improve community interaction and social participation
- Assistance with improving relationships
- Coordination of supports and linking with other services
- Improve health and wellbeing
- Improve ability to learn
- Improve daily living
- Improve life choices
- Transport to improve access to social, community and economic activities
Occupational Therapy Information
NDIS occupational therapy often involves the following:
- Identifying meaningful goals with the young person and their family
- Completing standardised assessments and interventions
- Working within the young person’s home, school and community environment
- Providing education to the young person’s family or carers to consolidate participation and improve performance in day to day tasks
Our Occupational Therapists can provide therapy for the following areas:
- Enhance independence with activities of daily living (e.g. eating, toileting and dressing)
- Instrumental activities of daily living (e.g. shopping, budgeting, transportation, cooking and home safety)
- Providing sensory integration therapies to assist with completing daily tasks, self-regulation and emotional de-escalation
- Modifying or adapting the environment to improve day to day tasks
- Enhancing fine motor skills, strength and coordination (e.g. handwriting, typing)
- Improving information processing and organisation skills
- Developing social skills and interpersonal interactions
“I want to catch public transport by myself and get my licence.” Jacob, 17 years old
“I want to increase my independence at home.”Joshua, 15 years old
“I’d like to concentrate better in class.” Emily, 9 years old
“improve my performance at school.” Alyssa, 11 years old
Psychology
NDIS Psychology in Sydney can assist with the following areas:
- Helping with emotional and behavioural difficulties, such as depression or anxiety, or other challenging behavioural issues in the home, school or work environment
- Improving coping skills
- Assisting with transition to school
- Enhancing social skills
- Exposure therapy
- Improving relationships with family members
- Assisting with grief and loss issues or other acute crises
“I want to have more friends and argue less with my family.” Sam, 14 years old
“To increase my confidence when I’m with my friends.” Megan, 16 years old
“I want to feel more comfortable when I’m in busy places.” Taylor, 9 years old
“To build my confidence at school.” Alyssa, 11 years old
Speech Therapy
Our Speech Therapists can assist with transition to school or employment, and can help and support other significant people in the young person’s life to better communicate with them, such as family members and teachers.
Our Speech Therapists can provide interventions for the following areas:
- Developing spoken language
- Enhancing understanding of language
- Improving practical language skills to develop social interaction and conversation
- Improving deficits with motor speech disorders and dyspraxia
- Improving literacy
- Behavioural management and emotional regulation strategies
“Help me make friends.” Hannah, 8 years old
“I want to improve my reading and writing.” Joshua, 15 years old
“Improve my listening at school.” Anna, 7 years old
“Improve how I talk to friends.” Matthew, 12 years old
Disability Support Worker
Our Disability Support Workers can help in the following areas:
- Assist and help improve independence in personal care and hygiene activities (e.g. eating, bathing, toileting)
- Assist with and develop meal preparation skills and feeding
- Provide social and behavioural support
- Assist with finding and maintaining employment
- Provide prompts and supervision with taking medications
- Domestic assistance (e.g. assisting with laundry, cleaning)
- Facilitating transport to attend appointment and leisure activities to promote community and social participation
- Accompanying young people to attend recreational activities
“Help me find and prepare for a job.” Jacob, 17 years old
“I want to go to the gym and shopping centre.” Joshua, 15 years old
“Help with my weekly planning.” Sarah, 16 years old
“I want to do activities in my local area.” Cala, 14 years old