Annie in wonderland

I am going to be doing a very deep dive hear but I know that people want to talk about the NDIS and what is wrong with it but we are getting side tracked by the fact that people who aren’t in disability circles or don’t know anyone who receives support, don’t know how complicated it is to get onto any type of care scheme that is offered in commonwealth countries, and even then the level of support you get can be questionable, and for me I present as very high functioning because I am until I get fatigued or tired and then I need to be able to ask for support and I have a very hard time doing this but this bring me to introducing what I am going to be talking about and it something that is very hard and complex to explain, that is restrictive  practices and in a very broad sense they can fall into two categories, Approved restrictive  practices and unapproved restrictive  practices,  these are practices that are generally outdated and as evident in the name used without approval from th

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