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Aastha Respite Accommodation
17-06-2022

Seize the Day: How to Make the Most Out of Your NDIS Core Supports

The primary category of support under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is Core Supports which helps the participants to be more independent and active participants in their community. Living with a disability can pose various unprecedented challenges to one’s daily life. Even doing a simple task around the house daily could bec [...] Read More


Aastha Respite Accommodation
03-06-2022

Know Your Options: How to Change Your Support Coordinator

People with disabilities must have choice and control over the care that they receive. Somehow, this simple yet vital principle regarding disability care is yet to penetrate the stronghold of institutional care where participants have little to no say in this matter. But the National Disability Insurance Scheme is a remarkable reform that is cha [...] Read More


Aastha Respite Accommodation
27-05-2022

Self-Care is the Best Care: Mental Health and People with Disabilities

Living with a disability throws plenty of challenges in your life. The physical challenges, health complexities, social barriers, unequal access to housing and employment etc can take a big toll on the mental health of people with disabilities. The mind needs proper care and support just like your body. The first step towards improving mental heal [...] Read More


Aastha Respite Accommodation
21-05-2022

Accessing the NDIS: Important Questions Answered

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a public-funded disability support system that finances ‘reasonable and necessary’ supports required by differently- abled Australian citizens with permanent and significant disabilities. This revolutionary scheme has reshaped the disability support structure in the country and increased ac [...] Read More


Aastha Respite Accommodation
16-05-2022

Recovery-oriented practices within NDIS: Psychosocial Recovery Coach Services

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) provides support for Australian citizens who have permanent and significant disabilities. People with disabilities experience reduced functional capacity to carry out everyday activities. Disabilities also hinder their learning ability, mobility, social participation, employment as well as self- [...] Read More


Aastha Respite Accommodation
06-05-2022

Building Trust: First Meeting with Your Support Coordinator

NDIS Support Coordination is a capacity building support that helps differently-abled individuals to successfully implement their NDIS plan and manage their funded supports. Though it may look like a case management support at first glance, Support Coordination is not intended to fulfil that role. Support coordination aims to build the capacit [...] Read More


Aastha Respite Accommodation
02-05-2022

Accessing In-Home and Community Support Services through the NDIS

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) provides all the crucial supports that a differently-abled individual needs to live an independent and purpose-driven life. The funded supports provided by the NDIS assist them with their living arrangements, help them develop various skills, and provide them with diverse care options including in [...] Read More


Aastha Respite Accommodation
26-04-2022

Embracing Equity and Inclusion: NDIS Core Supports Budget

Time and again myriad studies have proven the benefits of disability inclusion in the workplace as well as in the national economic fabric. It is high time that we recognised the valuable contributions of people with disabilities to our communities and provided them equal access to various spheres of mainstream society. Fair inclusion cannot be imp [...] Read More


Aastha Respite Accommodation
20-04-2022

Disability Inclusion in the Modern World: NDIS Shows the Way

Building an inclusive world where people with disabilities are given equal opportunities and access to the mainstream social fabric is a task that the global community collectively need to undertake. Disability inclusion demands systemic changes to our government and organisational policies as well as attitudinal changes to our behaviour. To remo [...] Read More


Aastha Respite Accommodation
10-04-2022

Accessing the NDIS Learning Disability vs Intellectual Disability

Educating ourselves about the incredibly diverse nature of disability is a very important step towards building a more inclusive world for differently-abled individuals. Depending on the disability, the health care needs of the individual may vary throughout their life. There are even disabilities that are not immediately evident to able people. [...] Read More


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