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Support workers and health professionals sometimes need to help a person with disability change their The ways a person acts or responds in different situations.. This could be:
- to help keep the person with disability safe
- to make the work place safe.
This resource made by the NDIS stands for National Disability Insurance Scheme. It is an Australian government program that provides funding and support to people with a permanent and significant disability so they can live more independently and achieve their goals. Commission is about practices support teams use to try to change behaviour. It says what practices are:
- good to use
- sometimes ok to use if you follow the rules carefully
- never ok to use.
Positive behaviour support is the best way to help someone change their behaviour
Positive behaviour support is the best way to help someone change their behaviour
A way of helping people change their behaviour in a positive way and help them have a better everyday life. respects human rights and is based on evidence.
This approach can include things like:
- sharing new skills
- changing the place where the person lives
- helping the support team
- making a plan.
Restrictive practices should be a last resort
Restrictive practices should be a last resort
Restrictive practices are actions that may keep people safe in the short term. But these actions do not:
- help people change their
The ways a person acts or responds in different situations.
- meet people's needs or make lives better
- help support teams understand why someone acts as they do
- respect human rights.
The resource explains the rules about restrictive practices. These rules are serious.
High risk practices should never be used
High risk practices should never be used
Some practices place people with disability at a high risk of harm. This harm can include serious long term physical or mental injury and death.
These practices should never be used.
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The NDIS stands for National Disability Insurance Scheme. It is an Australian government program that provides funding and support to people with a permanent and significant disability so they can live more independently and achieve their goals. Commission registers and regulates NDIS providers. The Commission works with people with disability to improve the quality and safety of their NDIS supports and services. It is sometimes called the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.
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