Word list

This list explains what the bold words in this document mean.

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Accessible

When information is accessible, everyone can find and use it.

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Advice

Advice is ideas about how to make things better.

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Assistive technology

Assistive technology might be an aid or piece of equipment.

It can:

  • make it easier to do things
  • keep you safe.

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Board

A Board is a group of people who make decisions for:

  • an organisation
  • a company.

Capacity

A participant’s capacity is:

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  • their ability to do something

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  • the skills they have

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  • knowing the right people who can help them.

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Co-design

Co-design is when people work together to plan something new.

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Committee

A committee is a group of people who give advice about a topic.

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Grants

A grant is money from the government to pay for important work that can help others in the community.

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Information, Linkages and Capacity Building program (the ILC program)

The ILC program gives grants to organisations that support people with disability.

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Intersectionality

Some people might be different in more than one way.

And they might be treated differently for each of the things about them that they cannot change.

We call this intersectionality.

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Minister

A minister leads an area of the government.

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NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (the NDIS Commission)

The NDIS Commission:

  • makes sure participants get good quality services
  • keeps participants safe.

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Participants

Participants are people with disability who take part in the NDIS

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Policy

A policy is a plan for how we should do things.

Policies are where rules come from.

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Reference Groups

A Reference Group is a group of people who give us advice about a certain topic.

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Review

When the government reviews something, they check to see what:

  • works well
  • can be better.

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Terms of reference

The terms of reference is a list of things governments want to focus on.