Regional Speech Pathology in Kadina, South Australia | Education

Regional Speech Pathology

Locality: Kadina, South Australia

Phone: +61 427 858 725

Address: 31 Hallett Street 5554 Kadina, SA, Australia

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23.01.2022 BREAKING NEWS UPDATE WITH TRANSCRIPT: The NDIA is now officially encouraging people to flexibly use your funds to purchase devices if you don't already have one... to access online therapy and fitness services. The NDIA is also working to source devices for participants! Information direct from NDIA DCEO Scott McNaughton on the currently broadcasting Every Australian Counts live webinar. Huge shout out to the Every Australian Counts team for their work to make this webinar happen, and to them and all the advocates and participants and families and providers who have been pushing so hard to help the NDIS support these purchases. You do not need reports etc to do this (but you might want some advice from an OT or similar to make sure you get what's needed) and claim from your core funds, but don't go silly - only buy what is needed (and that's not going to be the top of the line $1500 item - if you want that, maybe just claim the cost of a basic item). You would generally claim this from consumables funding, if not, from any other core :bucket". If you do not have core funds, and need the device to access CB funds, my personal opinion (not official at this point) would be to use your CB funds. You can also call the call centre on 1800 800 100 (select option 5) and ask them to shift funds, or switch some funds to self managed so you can purchase if you are agency managed. Here is part of the transcript from the EAC webinar: GAIL (webinar attendee): What if we do not have an iPad, laptop, computer, the internet? Can we use some NDIS funding for these things? SCOTT MCNAUGHTON: A really good question and one that is coming up a lot. It is one of the top questions being asked at our national contact centre. The positive around this, I must say, Gail, and people watching today, is that we are starting to hear a lot of innovative ways service providers are changing business models. Participants can continue to get some of their therapies and certain support by the internet. That is great. We have heard some examples of gym classes run online as well. Fantastic. It makes sure people can still access, using different social media to do that. It encourages providers to think innovatively. We do not want people... once the worlds wakes up in COVID- in six's month’s time with children having progress erased. We want access to continue for these innovative services. Regarding the actual question... a lot of Australians have access to those devices, we know that. But when you don't, and when you need a device to continue to access your disability services, we are encouraging you to use your NDIS plan to access those. So you can get those support. It is important, where you need certain things and those devices to be those online therapies, online gym classes. To connect with your speech therapist, or whoever is supporting you through your NDIS plan, we encourage people, if they do not have a device, to use the plane fixedly and purchased one. There will be more coming out on this including how we speed up the supply of access to those devices as well. We are working on that in the background, so in the meantime if you have funding in your plan and you need one of these to access your supports, we encourage you to use your plan flexibly to purchase such a device you can keep receiving supports. KIRSTEN DEANE: That's really good news. I can see from the chat, Stay tuned to https://www.ndis.gov.au/coronavirus for the official update to their Q&A's

17.01.2022 Lots of helpful information - thanks The Growing Space

17.01.2022 Great new early literacy resource from Spelfabet

17.01.2022 Team 2 Jessica boughen and rachael Morris took the lunch shift and team 3 Leonie and Karissa Polyak took shift 3. Thanks for everyone who dropped by hope it was helpful.

13.01.2022 Most of us who have contact with the NDIS know it has many issues and they're not being sorted out in a helpful way for participants or providers. Let's get behind this campaign! Please share.

12.01.2022 A helpful article reflecting on emotions

10.01.2022 A fun activity for turn taking, talking and - well - having fun!

09.01.2022 SA: Saturday the 17th March is Election Day The NDIS is not travelling well. Plans are expiring, participants aren’t able to get responses from the Agency and p...roviders aren’t getting paid and are needing to cancel services and supports for people with disability. We need Kelly back in our Parliament. Her voice and the results she's gained for South Australians are so important. WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP? Please consider supporting Kelly Vincent MLC and the Dignity Party in any way that you can. Here are FOUR FABULOUS WAYS to make a difference 1. VOTE for the Dignity Party in both the Upper and Lower House on the 17th. 2. HELP ON A POLLING BOOTH! What do I do? - Please email: [email protected] Pre-poll (early) voting centres are already open, so if you can help out there that'd be excellent (even if you can't help on Saturday 17th). This is actually a lot of fun, and you get a Dignity T’shirt and hat and stuff, too! There is a direct correlation between booths with volunteers handing out our How to Vote cards, and the votes for Kelly, so PLEASE help out with this for a few hours if you can. 3. MAKE A DONATION through the website www.DignityParty.com.au Or EFT: Account name: Dignity Party BSB: 105 074 Acc. No: 049 800 740 Please note, they require the street address of all donors, this is SA Electoral Commission requirement. If donating via EFT please email [email protected] to give us your details! 4. SHARE THIS STATUS, with a personal note about what it means to you to have Kelly in our Parliament. Pic Descriptions: 1. Close up headshot of The Growing Space’s Ben with Kelly Vincent MLC, back in 2013, wearing Every Australian Counts Red and White T’shirts. 2. Black and White photo with Kelly Vincent MLC on the right, holding up a microphone with a defiant, strong look that says to me I’m not letting them get away with this rot at a rally supporting those in aged care, with a banner flying behind her. 3: Pic of Lily Durkin, Dignity Candidate for Badcoe Electorate and occasional Growing Space Team Member, wearing purple and holding her papillon puppy on her scooter at the recent Disability Pride rally.

08.01.2022 This app was one of the most exciting advances we learnt about at the Asia Pacific Autism Conference

08.01.2022 Happy 2019! We hope everyone enjoyed the sun and their time off over Christmas. Just a quick post to let you all know that staff will be back as of today, energised and refreshed from their Christmas break. We are looking forward to another great year at Regional Speech Pathology!

06.01.2022 The Growing Space have some helpful information on working with the NDIS - here is there latest on self managing your plan

02.01.2022 Very interesting read looking at a number of interventions available- look forward to purchasing and reading this book.

02.01.2022 Team 1 Leonie and Giulietta at the Kadina NDIS expo today- well attended by participants and providers.