Word list

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

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Allied health professionals

Allied health professionals support people with their health care.

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Bulletin

A bulletin is an important news item we share with the community.

It explains what we did in our last meeting.

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Co-design

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

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Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD)

CALD people:

  • come from different backgrounds
  • speak languages other than English.

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Diversity

Diversity is what makes people different from each other.

People can:

  • come from different places
  • speak different languages
  • have different abilities
  • live their lives in different ways.

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Funding

Funding is the money from your plan that pays for the supports and services you need.

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Inclusive

When something is inclusive, it means everyone can take part.

Intersectionality

Intersectionality happens when people with disability are treated differently because of both:

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  • their disability

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  • other things about them that they can’t change – like their background or race.

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LGBTIQA+

The letters LGBTIQA stand for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer or questioning and asexual.

The ‘+’ is for people who are part of the LGBTIQA+ community but don’t talk about themselves using a word from this list.

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Lived experience of disability

If you have lived experience of disability, you:

  • have a disability
  • know what life can be like for people with disability.

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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 the NDIA should do things
  • where rules come from.

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Positive behaviour supports

Positive behaviour supports are ways to support how a participant acts or behaves.

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Principles

Principles are important ideas that tell us how to make things better.

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Providers

Providers deliver services to people with disability.

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Psychosocial disability

A psychosocial disability affects your mental health.

It can affect how you:

  • think
  • feel
  • deal with other people.

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Reference Group

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

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Review

A review is when you check to see what:

  • works well
  • can be better.

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Strategy

A strategy is a plan about how to do things in the future.

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Supported decision-making

Supported decision-making is when someone helps you make important decisions about your life and how you will live.

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Terms of Reference

The Terms of Reference is a list of things the government wants to focus on.

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Trauma

Trauma is something bad that happens to you that can make you feel:

  • scared
  • stressed
  • worried.