Word list

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

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Accessible

When information is accessible, it is easy to:

  • find and use
  • understand.

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Behaviour support practitioners

Behaviour support practitioners help people with disability to:

  • live a better life
  • manage stressful situations better.

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Behaviour support plan

A behaviour support plan is a document with steps for improving behaviour.

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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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Career

Your career is the path you take in your work throughout your life.

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Employer

An employer is a person who hires other people to work for them.

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Employment

Employment means you:

  • have a job
  • go to work
  • get paid.

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Exploitation

Exploitation is when someone takes advantage of you.

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Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)

Drinking alcohol while pregnant can cause FASD.

It affects how a baby grows before it’s born.

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Fraud

Fraud is something someone plans to do that is not honest.

Fraud is a crime.

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Funding

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

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Intellectual disability

An intellectual disability affects how you:

  • learn new things
  • solve problems
  • communicate
  • do things on your own.

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Intersectionality

You can be different in more than one way.

And people might treat you differently for each part of who you are.

We call this intersectionality.

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Justice Liaison Officers (JLOs)

JLOs help people with disability find and use supports:

  • when they take part in the justice system
  • until they leave prison.

This includes working with the justice system to help people with disability take part in the NDIS.

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Justice system

The justice system includes:

  • police
  • the courts
  • the law
  • prisons.

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Minister

A minister leads an area of the government.

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NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission

The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission makes sure people with disability who take part in the NDIS:

  • are safe
  • get good services.

In this bulletin we call them the NDIS Commission.

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NDIS Review

The Australian Government is checking the NDIS to find out what:

  • works well
  • could be better.

They call it the NDIS Review.

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NDIA Board

The NDIA Board is a group of people who make decisions about all parts of the NDIA.

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Palliative care

Palliative care is a support for when you are near the end of your life.

You use palliative care when you have an illness that:

  • will get worse
  • will last the rest of your life.

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Participants

Participants are people with disability who take part in the NDIS.

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Plan manager

A plan manager is someone that will manage your NDIS plan for you.

A 'Policy' document.

Policy

Policies are:

  • government plans for how to do things
  • where rules come from.

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Providers

Providers support people with disability by delivering a service.

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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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Restrictive practices

Restrictive practices are actions that stop people from:

  • moving
  • doing what they want.

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Royal commission

A royal commission is how the government looks into a big problem.

It helps us find out what:

  • went wrong
  • we can fix.

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Scam

We call it a scam when someone tries to:

  • trick you
  • take your money.

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Supported decision-making

Supported decision-making is when someone supports you to make your own decisions about your life.

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Therapy

Therapy is a type of support that can help how:

  • you think and feel
  • your body moves.

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Trauma

Trauma is the way you feel about something bad that happened to you.

For example, you might feel scared or stressed.

Trauma can affect you for a long time.