Annie in wonderland

This is something that I have had in draft form for a while but it needs to be said and that you are not a burden as we see that in coming up to Christmas we will have well meaning but uninformed people talking to us about life and asking us when we are getting a Job, going back to study or moving out of home.  Also l feel that this time of year for a lot of people brings a lot of stress so we need to say to people you are not a burden and  if you look at the volunteer hours if you had to pay someone what people with disabilities do their would be a massive economic burden to this and often people with disability’s do this for free, or for under the award wages. We also see that people are talking about what is in the news and often this is the NDIS and we see that this is a whole other issue due to the fact that people see it as a  cost blow out and don’t really understand that it is a complex program and often it’s not the clients that are defrauding the system it is the provider

  So this is a continuation of my series on disability support services and office culture and ethics and I am hoping in this post to answer some of the questions I asked in the previous posts about the services and support people how do you manage this to make sure they are effective, well-trained and right for the person using the service and how do you spot if the company has a good ethical framework that is apart from the thinking about disability as a moral failing.  As if the disability is thought about as a form of morality does this then give the service providers the right to take a medical model approach to disability what type of framework is this mindset working from and how is it a good framework to work with who does it help the service provider or the person they are supposed to support?  This is a dangerously outdated model of care and it states at its core that disability is something to be ashamed of and therefore you need to be cured to be of worth to society.    H

  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 a continuation of disability and ethics in disability service providers, I found that I needed to go back and seek out the very basics around this to educate myself on this as well.   As, unfortunately, ethics can be a tricky subject when it comes to disability because personal ethics play a role as well, and personal ethics vary from person to person and the training from disability service providers varies from person to person and organization to organization as well as having a good framework that they work from.   A good ethical framework is one that everyone from the boss down is aware of and works within and is rev