Annie in wonderland

Disclaimer – That these are my own lived experiences and understanding from the research that  I do around the NDIS and health-related topics please be aware that it is informational only and not to be used as a substitute for professional advice or working with a Planner, Disability Advocacy service or talking to your Medical and Allied Health team.    So this is going to be an interesting one to write as I expect a lot of pushback from this post and we see that people need to be very aware of this when choosing a support provider or support worker, so anything around disability-related supports.  Disability-related support is a very tricky topic but in Australia, this is defined as support to help a person live a more ordinary life despite having a disability.   In   Australia, we have the NDIS ( the National disability insurance scheme [i] )   and it is a scheme that helps people with a disability to live their best life. However, it has spored a new industry company culture c

Ecco park is an interesting episode to end on and I admit that I did skip a few episodes that are mostly marking for other podcasts but it really does make you think this series as it is set in a world that we are approaching very closely and to me is very reminiscing of disability intuitions for the clones they where prepared for the outside world but at the same time they weren’t and it is where we see a lot of what if questions start to arise.   https://open.spotify.com/show/5kPqdtwaSB6wj7QJhg4IdJ?si=0cf89988850d41b0   These questions are what is ethical to do how is it ok to choose your children if you could, and what would you do if you could take over another person’s life and get away with it? Where does addiction come from, and how to deal with it, it is a thriller in the fact that we see it could be very easily happening with IVF babies and the increased screening for genetic defects and potential disabilities, and around the right to life movement, and we see   a very

So I am still in the process of unpacking Mangus from Shadow hunters as he is a very different character in the books, movie, and tv adaptions and we see that in the TV adaptations this was due to copyright issues and licensing to use content from the books as well as rating issues as we really can’t have Magnus an 800-year-old warlock dating a 16-year-old shadow hunter so it made sense to make sure that they aged up the characters and Harry Shum jr will always be my Magnus. I have only watched certain bits of the movie so we need to be aware of this but I see that Mangus is very open but very private at the same time I talked about the box before and how it contains memories of past lovers and we see that this becomes an issue for Alec as it reminds him that he will die and Mangus will not and this is very difficult to accept, and it is very similar to when people with disability’s use things that aren’t considered to be “age-appropriate,” but it needs appropriate to their needs suc

So these are very controversial documents in that if you don’t have all the support workers on the same page it can be very difficult for people to stick to them and unethical support workers will use them against some people but when used properly are very effective in reducing unwanted behaviours through a variety of means and this is where restrictions come into play as they need to be used in conjunction with other things such as therapy and they can only be implemented by a positive behaviour support specialist and often a support worker will need to be trained in how to implement them safely and positively that helps support the self-development of the client and stops the behaviours.  However with any challenging behaviours we see that it is only used when people are unable to use other means to deescalate challenging and difficult behaviours’ and often these are a learnt behaviour  and this can be behaviours’ such as manipulation of a support worker, through guilt, hiding t

  This   is a post that I have hesitated to write but it needs to be written as we see that many providers have there own take on this but there is very little written about when it comes to a   clients perspective.    So it is how to get the best out of your NDIS plan. So this is written entirely from a clients point of view. The first thing is know what you will and won’t accept in regards from providers as many will talk about person centred care but from that first phone call, you will know how you are going to be treated so are they willing to return a phone call, this is the first indication of how they will treat you in an on going basis. This is the indication of their staffing levels and at the time of writing this is coming up to Christmas and yes it is important to see that people need to be aware of this and understand what is happening, but do they have enough staff to cover   intake enquires. What is the service providers ethos, this should be clearly laid out in ther