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09/03/2026

An ABC Australian Story follows Perth mother Deirdre Croft, 72, who has spent 45 years caring for her son Richard, who has a profound intellectual disability caused by birth trauma. As her health declines, Deirdre confronts a question many ageing carers face: who will care for their child when they die, and how to secure a safe, supportive future.

ID: A smiling older woman with short grey hair streaked with pink and wearing bright pink glasses stands beside an adult man with short dark hair and glasses. She gently holds his arm as they stand outdoors in front of leafy greenery. The man appears animated and expressive, while the woman looks at him with warmth and attentiveness.

03/03/2026

28/02/2026

This is sweet Lacey Grace. She was born with Myelomeningocele Spina Bifida!

👉🏼 Spina bifida is a condition that affects the growth of a baby’s spine and spinal cord during the first month of pregnancy. It usually affects the lower part of the spine, but it can happen anywhere along the spine.

Spina bifida happens when the neural tube doesn’t close properly. The neural tube is a part of your baby that closes during the first month, or 15-28 days, of pregnancy. It later becomes the brain and spinal cord.

If the neural tube does not close properly, it can cause damage or differences to the:
spinal cord
vertebrae - bones of the spine
skin that grows over the top of the spine.

A gap in the spine means that messages cannot pass between the body and the brain, affecting your child’s health, development and learning.
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25/02/2026

Easy Speech Therapy Activities You Can Do at Home.
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25/02/2026

👉🏼 It is mandatory for all workers of NDIS registered providers engaged in risk assessed roles to obtain a clearance from the screening process.

You need to have an NDIS worker screening check if you’re:
☑️ an employee, volunteer, contractor or student who works for:
☑️ a registered provider in a risk-assessed role or key personnel role
☑️ a registered provider who has decided that all their workers need to have an NDIS worker screening check
☑️ an unregistered provider who has decided that their workers need to have an NDIS worker screening check.

OR

a self-employed worker or a sole trader who:
👉🏼 is a registered provider
👉🏼 supports a self-managed NDIS participant who has decided that all their engaged workers need to have an NDIS worker screening check.

24/02/2026

A Reflective Memoir Shared by an Ambassador from Our Friends at A List 🧡

Growing up with undiagnosed autism, I was always the different kid.
We were told to embrace individuality.
Be who you are on the inside.
Be yourself—only to an extent we find socially acceptable.
Because when I am myself,
I’m too weird.
I’m annoying.
I’m sensitive.
I’m different.
So I’ll change my entire personality to fit your standard.
I’m too weird? So I’ll act like everyone else.
But then I’m called a copycat.
I’m too annoying? Then I’ll shut up and not talk to anyone.
But that makes me a bigger target.
I’m sensitive? Then I’ll try to keep up with your jokes and ignore my feelings, but I’ll take the joke too far, and it was never that deep.
I’m different? No matter what I try, I can never be normal enough.
Because I’m not normal.
Embrace your differences—
But only the differences we accept.
The adults in my life promoted individuality.
But I was always the exception.
Being myself led to me getting in trouble.
Led me to getting bullied.
Led me to being blamed for my own bullying.
I wouldn’t be getting bullied if I just acted normal.
But I don’t want to be normal.
I’m not normal.
I am disabled.
In a chaotic, ever-changing world with no sense of normality, how am I the outlier?
Why am I not normal?
Is something wrong with me?
This constant reminder that I was an alien led me to grow up with an extreme perfectionist attitude toward everything in my life.
If I was perfect at everything I did.
If I always won.
If I was always correct.
People would finally like me.
People would want to be my friend.
People would think I’m normal.
But now I’m a teacher’s pet.
Now I’m even more annoying.
Now I live my life through a lens of toxic perfectionist values that have led to my own downfall.
Because you couldn’t expand your view of differences.
Because the people in my life punished me for being different.
Because I am autistic.
This Autism Awareness Day, I will use my voice to tell the story of the little girl who grew up to hate herself.
To hate her differences.
To hate her autism.
In a world so different every day,
Together, we can make change.
Together.
The little girls who talk too much.
The little girls who are bossy.
The little girls who can’t pay attention.
And the little girls who are different.
Will love themselves and others.
Will be supported through this world.
Will grow into amazing adults, ready to take on the world.

16/02/2026

Each funding period you will have the amount of NDIS funding allocated + any rollover funds (any left over funding from the previous funding period).

🚨 If you 'spend' more than this total amount, you will need to pay the overspent amount out of pocket 🚨

👉🏼 For example:
You have $12,000 of therapy funding in your plan.

➡️ This amount is released quarterly because you have a quarterly funding period, so you will have $3,000 available for therapy each quarter.

⚠️ If your therapy costs $3,500 in a quarter, you will need to pay $500 out of pocket in that quarter.

⚠️ YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CLAIM IT FROM THE NEXT QUARTER (there was some wiggle room initially, but now this is very strict)

NOTE: If you spend more than this in even one funding period, your funding will not last for the duration of your NDIS plan.

Read more in our resource here: https://ow.ly/vr8H50YeFNb

15/02/2026

This is the WalkON Suit F1, a powered exoskeleton developed by the Exoskeleton Lab at KAIST in collaboration with Angel Robotics.

Designed to support people with paraplegia, the suit enables users to walk and balance independently. It also allows for direct transfer from a wheelchair, improving usability and practicality.

Watch the video and you are guaranteed to be excited by how assistive technology like this is opening up real possibilities for mobility for our community!

13/02/2026

We had a great time at the Sydney South West Expo!

Thank you for all the lovely smiles, warm hospitality and positive feedback. It was wonderful reconnecting with the provider community and meeting NDIS families.

11/02/2026

Continuing with the theme 'not all learning looks the same'.

This is my PDAer using his feet to collect all the letters stuck up high on the monkey bars. Once he had them all he had to unscramble the word.

This is how spelling happened that day.

It was spelling combined with big proprioceptive and vestibular input for regulation, as well as the puzzle and gross motor challenge.

We could do this same activity another day with different variables, like adding a time limit, adding tense boss fight music, eyes closed, only one foot allowed, dark mode, tag team, co-op.

The novelty makes it fun and accessible- for all of us. And to put it plainly, expecting this kid to learn in the 'traditional' way just sets him up for failure.

So why would we?

Em 🌈

10/02/2026

ACCC Flags Widespread Consumer Law Breaches in NDIS Markets

A new Australian Competition & Consumer Commission report finds some NDIS participants are being harmed by deceptive advertising and unlawful conduct by providers, including false claims about NDIS approval, unfair contracts, and charging for undelivered supports. Working with the NDIA and NDIS Commission, the ACCC has taken enforcement action and is monitoring markets closely, warning that such conduct can cause serious financial, safety and life-limiting harm.

ID: A woman sits at a table looking distressed, holding her head while reading paperwork.

22/01/2026