What is NDIS?

• NDIS funds individual children to achieve functional goals.

• NDIS funds “reasonable and necessary supports”.

• Supports child in mainstream, naturalistic and “usual “settings.

• Family has choice and control over the services they purchase

• NDIS will not fund what is the responsibility of health and education – only what relates to your child's disability.

• NDIS determines eligibility to the scheme.

• Planners are employed by the NDIA to develop your child's funded plan.

• Individual funding packages may vary from year to year depending on the achievements of your child’s outcomes and supports needed.

• Planners create plans with families based on supports needed for their child to achieve functional skills needed to participate in their home life and community.

• For children under seven funding is not completely dependent on the type of diagnosis, but on the level of support each child needs to enjoy family life.

Yarran is registered to provide a number of supports including:

• Development of life skills

• Early Childhood Intervention supports

• Therapeutic supports

• Improved Daily Living

Yarran will support children in their everyday settings including home, childcare, preschool, school and activities in the community of the family’s choice.

 Families can also choose to receive services in Yarran’s playrooms for individual sessions. We have one at Bateau Bay and one at East Gosford

Yarran can provide:

• Capacity Building Supports in Early Childhood (specialised therapy and Early childhood Intervention Educators and Therapy Assistant for early childhood) to assist a child with a disability or developmental delay and their family in their home, care, community, education settings.

• Therapy Assistant/ Early Childhood Intervention Educators/Teachers

• Speech therapists

• Occupational therapists

• Paediatric Physiotherapy

• Getting Started Progam.This is a free program designed to support a child and their family where concerns exist for any developmental area. It is a screening,identification and referral pathway. This program does not require NDIS funding.