The NDIS is making it hard to access funding if you don’t detail out the following:

• Benefits
• How is it related to the disability
• Risks if not funded

This is not always easy to do.

The following are examples of Benefits:

• Independence
• Increased skills
• Improve my communication at home and within the community to become as independent as possible
• Improved cholesterol, lower blood pressure, stronger bones and muscles, reduced risk of heart attack and many other positives can all stem from regular exercise.
• Personal care, including showering and dressing
• Daily life skills such as cooking, cleaning, gardening and doing laundry
• Support in budgeting and household management
• Development of social and communication skills
• Quality of relationships
  Management and understanding of finances
• Improved Health and wellbeing
• Improve my communication skills
• Decreased Isolation
• Able to go to the grocery store for groceries from a list
• Increase ability and skills with fine motor
• Increase ability and skills with gross motor
• To be in control of life choices and decision making
• Increase confidence and independence
• Increased mobility through the use of an electric wheelchair
• Able to reach things in above counter cupboards, with the electric standup wheelchair
• Ramps give access to the back and front yards
• Home modification has improved safety and decreased risk in the bathroom