Communicating with confidence!
The theme this year for Speech Pathology Week from 23-29 August is “Communicating with Confidence!”
Communication, simply defined is the transfer of information from one place to another. It serves as a mean for connecting people and places. Communication is a basic human right.
NDIS Plan Reviewing Process
As Support Coordinators, I reckon between the team, we have been involved in over one thousand NDIS plan reviews.
The review process is so lengthly and time consuming. It makes me wonder, is this being done intentionally so we just give up to save our sanity?
Let me explain why I am so frustrated…
Find the Diamond in the Rough
If you are feeling pressured by another provider to move your Support Coordination to them, they are not an ethical provider. Sadly, this is very common. Providers that provide every service and want to monopolise and really need to stop trying to poach people and offer to do all their services. For many people, the benefits of having an independent Support Coordinator who does an awesome job greatly outweighs the service they are offering.
Pandemic Support Tips
Participants are feeling this isolation heavily. I have had some weeks. It is becoming difficult for any of us practice the healthy strategies that we have developed over our lives to help us manage our mental health. For many people, these practices are no longer possible. This period of time calls for Support people to think outside the box with supporting their participants.
Telehealth and its importance
The importance of Telehealth has been highlighted over the last few weeks. It was a bit hard to figure out how it would all work when our practice of supporting people has been face to face, this current circumstance has proven that we need to be creative…
The Importance of Schedules – Density of Preferred Events
I previously wrote about the importance of having a schedule. Lets look a little deeper into this and talk about the ‘Density of Preferred Events’.
What does this mean? It’s simple, it refers to how often does someone participates in an activity of enjoyment of their choosing..
The Importance of Schedules – Positive Behaviour Support
Let’s talk about the importance of schedules for moment. Besides the fact that being able to have choice and control, and make decisions about your own life is a basic right to communication…
We all keep some type of schedule to know what we are doing for the day..
Tune Review and what does it mean for the massive Conflict of Interest that is going on?
I bang on about the conflict of interest constantly.
This is when a provider is your Support Coordinator and any of your other supports. So with the Tune Review out, I was somewhat happy to see the following amendment to the NDIS rules…
Scanning Documents with your iPhone
This tip saved me so much time!
Besides not having to go to Officeworks and try and figure out how to use their self service…
A Place to Call Home
When you have the Right Support Coordinator the results can be life changing.
Anne has been working with Sally as her Support Coordinator to find suitable accommodation…
