National Disability Insurance Scheme

KMA Health & Physio is a registered provider for NDIS participants.

The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) is an independent statutory agency.  Its role is to implement the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), which aims to support a better life for Australians with a significant and permanent disability for their families and carers. 

Supports funded by the Scheme

The Scheme funds supports that families need as a result of a family member’s disability, as well as supports that enable sustainable caring by family members. This includes: family support and counselling due to a family member’s disability building the skills and capacity of other family members to manage the impact of a participant’s disability on family life supports that increase the participant’s independence, as well as supports that enable the participant to enjoy social and community activities independent of their informal carers supports aimed at increasing the sustainability of family caring arrangement, including personal care and domestic assistance related to the person’s disability where a child’s caring or living arrangement changes due to a child protection order, the Scheme can continue to fund the child’s disability related supports such as aids and equipment, therapies, transport or community access.   

https://www.ndis.gov.au/families-carers/family-supports.html