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Supported independent living is help or supervision with daily tasks to help you live as independently as possible, while building your skills.

Learn how some participants have achieved their home and living goals through supported independent living.

If your child has been diagnosed with a permanent hearing loss, your audiologist will refer you to Hearing Australia. Under the NDIS Pathway Hearing Stream, Hearing Australia can help you quickly apply to the NDIS at your first appointment.

If your child meets the eligibility criteria to become a NDIS participant then your early childhood partner will use information gathered about goals, assessments, and connections with community and mainstream supports to help create your child’s NDIS plan.

Information about what the NDIS is doing to help participants during coronavirus (COVID-19).

Early childhood provider reports are annual reports written for families of children younger than 7, who are NDIS participants.

Self-management policy We have developed a self-management policy. We developed this policy in consultation with NDIS participants, Independent Advisory Council members and representatives from the disability sector. We also collected information and research from a variety of publications from all over the world, and undertook a series of focus groups with NDIS participants. People have told us it is hard to understand what is involved in self-managing NDIS funding. We developed this policy so people understand self-management and more participants and their nominees can choose to self-manage if it is right for them. The self-management policy explains how self-management works...

Making SIL Better is our commitment to improving how we manage and deliver supported independent living supports (SIL) to participants.

Three-year-old Georgia and her parents, Chloe and Cameron, have just started seeing a paediatrician who referred them to an early childhood partner. Georgia presents with a significant communication, physical and social developmental delay. She can walk short distances but fatigues easily and she’s a bit clumsy on her feet. Georgia has started speaking but she is only using one or two words so she has difficulty expressing herself. Her family are concerned and have tried various strategies to encourage her development but feel the strategies they have tried haven’t worked. It’s frustrating for Georgia too, who often screams at length...

If you have a disability and you're involved in the justice system, you have the same rights as anyone to become or remain an NDIS participant.