NDIS Planning:
Evidence You Can Provide
to Assist With Identifying Your Needs for Behaviour Supports in your NDIS Plan
If your son/daughter/family member needs supports to develop self- regulation of behaviour or to decrease behaviours which others find challenging, there are a number of ways you can back up your claim by providing evidence.
These types of evidence include:
- A diary of days and times when challenging behaviours have occurred, such as set out below.
- The kinds of extra time input that supporting the behaviour requires at home, school, or out and about.
- Any reports from Speech Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists or teachers; about the child’s/adult’s behaviours and ways of communicating their feelings, needs and wants.
- Evidence of any monetary outlays the family has incurred re the behaviours.
- A list of the risks to the person, other people, and property if the behaviours are not addressed; e.g. harm to self, harm to others, property damage; and including the social isolation of the person if restrictive practices are used, such as being out into ‘time out’, shutting the person in a different room, or not allowing the person/child to go on an outing, etc AND/OR if social interaction is more difficult due to behaviours.
- Potential increase in support costs and needs for extra support staff, and use of other services if the positive behaviour support services are not provided.
