New and emerging markets can develop to meet the needs and requests of participants based on innovative thinking and planning. Plan management provides a pathway to through the development of skills and capacity building. Homelife has operated on self-directed framework for many years. We moved to the model of self-direction in a more formal way in 2008. All funds are individualised, service users receive annual budgets, work from signed Service Agreements and engage their own team members to provide the support and assistance they request working within the parameters of their available funds. In more recent time through the Your Life Your Choice legislation we registered as service provider where self-management of funds is supported and assisted through a more intermediary type role. We do not have empirical data to support the following but have access to information and through observation and experience can confidently report that as people progress with the management of their own lives including funds, services, equipment and technology they requires less than anticipated unless there are significant changes, anticipated deterioration or unexpected life events. People become economic participants in their communities and valued members of their communities. Why are more participants entering the scheme from the trial sites that expected? Why are lower than expected participants exiting the scheme? An increase in the expected number of participants in trial site areas can be attributable to a number of factors. Families of people, in particular children, with a disability relocated from other states to the trial site areas to access the NDIS. The significance of the impact on the expected numbers I do not believe has been captured in the available information. It would be reasonable to suggest the impact on this phenomenon be followed up as this will also impact the numbers expected to roll out in other areas. The demographics of the trial site areas themselves will skew the projected number of participants and for many people not receiving support from within their own state or related to the eligible participants in the trial site areas. Hidden populations of children with a disability are becoming more aware of the NDIS and advancements in diagnosis and identification of disabilities in children at an earlier age has also increased. The diagnosis of children with Autism spectrum disorder “The number of people who are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) continues to rise in Australia. Autism, once considered rare, is now 31% of NDIS participants, the largest
New and emerging markets can develop to meet the needs and requests of participants based on innovative thinking and planning. Plan management provides a pathway to through the development of skills and capacity building. Homelife has operated on self-directed framework for many years. We moved to the model of self-direction in a more formal way in 2008. All funds are individualised, service users receive annual budgets, work from signed Service Agreements and engage their own team members to provide the support and assistance they request working within the parameters of their available funds. In more recent time through the Your Life Your Choice legislation we registered as service provider where self-management of funds is supported and assisted through a more intermediary type role. We do not have empirical data to support the following but have access to information and through observation and experience can confidently report that as people progress with the management of their own lives including funds, services, equipment and technology they requires less than anticipated unless there are significant changes, anticipated deterioration or unexpected life events. People become economic participants in their communities and valued members of their communities. Why are more participants entering the scheme from the trial sites that expected? Why are lower than expected participants exiting the scheme? An increase in the expected number of participants in trial site areas can be attributable to a number of factors. Families of people, in particular children, with a disability relocated from other states to the trial site areas to access the NDIS. The significance of the impact on the expected numbers I do not believe has been captured in the available information. It would be reasonable to suggest the impact on this phenomenon be followed up as this will also impact the numbers expected to roll out in other areas. The demographics of the trial site areas themselves will skew the projected number of participants and for many people not receiving support from within their own state or related to the eligible participants in the trial site areas. Hidden populations of children with a disability are becoming more aware of the NDIS and advancements in diagnosis and identification of disabilities in children at an earlier age has also increased. The diagnosis of children with Autism spectrum disorder “The number of people who are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) continues to rise in Australia. Autism, once considered rare, is now 31% of NDIS participants, the largest