News, advice and resources from the Seareal team — for NDIS participants, families, carers and partners across Queensland.
Leaving prison is hard enough without trying to navigate NDIS at the same time. But for the significant proportion of people in Queensland's correctional system who have a disability, getting NDIS ser…
Psychosocial disability — disability that arises from a mental health condition — is NDIS's fastest-growing support category. Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, PTSD, severe depression and anxiety, eati…
SIL and SDA are two of the most frequently confused terms in NDIS. They're related — both involve accommodation and living support for people with high care needs — but they're funded differently and …
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are significantly underrepresented in NDIS participation relative to their rates of disability. The barriers are real — cultural, geographic, historic…
The transition from school to adult life is one of the highest-risk moments in any young person's NDIS journey. Services that worked through school don't automatically transfer. Adult services have di…
Autism Spectrum Disorder is the largest single disability category in NDIS — around 30% of all participants. But what NDIS funds for autism varies enormously between plans. Some autistic participants …
Veterans with disability can potentially access both DVA (Department of Veterans' Affairs) support and NDIS. The two systems cover different things, and accessing both means understanding where one en…
NDIS is primarily designed around the person with disability, not their carer. But carers often have a significant stake in what gets included in the plan, and there are specific supports NDIS can fun…
A long hospital stay changes things. Your support needs at discharge might be quite different from what they were before admission, and the services that were in place may not still be appropriate. Pl…
NDIS currently covers Australians with disability until they turn 65. What happens after that, and how to navigate the transition from NDIS to aged care, is one of the more stressful things participan…
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