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Tegan’s tip the balance story
My family and every other family with a disability deserves only the best possible treatment and assessment. How can anyone be assessed in such a short time frame
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Wendy’s tip the balance story
I’m Wendy. I’m an amputee, and after being with NDIS for 11 months, I still don’t have prosthetic legs in my plan!
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Julie’s tip the balance story
I have had MS since 2005 and had to take a redundancy from DHS in July 2019 due to deterioration of MS. My claim for home modifications was
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Kathy’s tip the balance story
Overall I have to be very grateful that we have the NDIS in Australia. My 39 yr old son has high support needs and was funded well (and
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Julie’s tip the balance story
The NDIS doesn’t make it easy for people to work out what funding they have to spend where, having to find coordinators, support workers etc. We need what
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Caitlin’s tip the balance story
My son is 13 and is on the spectrum. He gets NDIS funding. I have bipolar disorder and autism. I have been rejected by the NDIS 4 times
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Beth’s tip the balance story
I have never felt more left behind than I do now, the NDIS is so much less in every way. My initial planning meeting was cut short as
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margaret’s tip the balance story
I’m 71 and a widow, an amputee well looked after for 25 years, but not any more ! The bare minimum is covered by ENABLE, but the government
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Wayne’s tip the balance story
I’ll keep it brief, I am a 66yo man. Currently on my 3rd NDIS plan which I qualified for with psychosocial issues. My plan is being reviewed for
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Miriam’s tip the balance story
As my partner has a chronic condition which meant that I used to wonder if I could access emergency respite & justify why I needed it, getting NDIA
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Sarah’s tip the balance story
Before the NDIS I was lucky to have funding from ADHC. There was a lot of flexibility and choice to what I could use my funding for. Choices
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Vicki’s tip the balance story
My sister and I are waiting for the NDIS to get back to us about SDA housing, we have not heard anything, this is hard to cope with,
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Rebecca’s tip the balance story
We are told to ring the NDIS with any queries or questions. When you do and ask for help with an issue you have no one who can
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Leanne’s tip the balance story
My son has gained some wonderful experiences – community access that is suited to HIS interests instead of ‘the group’- and great new skills in independence as we
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Rebecca’s tip the balance story
For the last 3 years I have been fighting for NDIS funding for my sons prosthetic eye. It does not meet their reasonable and necessary criteria. NDIS Act
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Fiona’s tip the balance story
Too little understanding of what having an Intellectual disability means. Eligibility is that you have a permanent disability , yet time and time again packages are reduced because
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Jessie’s tip the balance story
Amputee, Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (spectrum) What’s working… Great having mobility, electric chair, manual chair 5/10 Taxi funding although I spend more Carer support funding Assistive Technology funding Good
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Ben’s tip the balance story
How many Ministers have we had in the past 2 years? TOO many How many Ministers have been in charge who a) want to help and b) have
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Benjamin’s tip the balance story
I have multiple disabilities- including an ‘undiagnosed’ degenerative condition. I have gradually lost the ability to walk and talk. I have continued to receive many necessary supports since
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Claire’s tip the balance story
My connection to NDIS is via my sister and her partner. Both of them have intellectual disabilities and live together in Coffs Harbour which is unfortunately not near
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Jenny’s tip the balance story
Ndis good bad and ugly good getting g funding to access community not good unable to resource competent caring qualified reliable consistent disability support workers. And the ugly
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Sarah’s tip the balance story
Many participants will not self-manage their NDIS funding as participants are not able to use their NDIS funding flexibly. The benefits of self-managing are not good enough for
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sarah’s tip the balance story
Flexibility is not just about participants being able to move funding from one bucket to another it is about giving people with disabilities?NDIS participants greater and broader options
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