Positive Behaviour Support Plan NDIS Sunshine Coast

Through the NDIS, residents with disabilities of the Sunshine Coast can use Positive Behaviour Support Plans where their behaviour needs can be addressed. Behavioural support plans are developed to address the behavioural problems of patients wherein qualified NDIS providers such as competent psychologists or counsellors will work closely with NDIS participants, their families, and carers to develop a strategy to lessen and eventually eliminate the NDIS participant's problem behaviour.

There are different categories of behavioural support provided by the NDIS and the type of behavioural support provided to the participant depends on their specific needs and challenges. Positive behaviour support is shown through collective data to be the most effective type of behavioural support to administer to individuals compared to other types of behavioural support plans. This is why the positive behavioural support plan is the most popular behavioural support plan for NDIS providers to administer to their clients

Residents with disabilities of Sunshine Coast in Brisbane can make use to have the positive behaviour support plan as one of the services they can get as part of their NDIS individualised plan.

But first what is the NDIS and how can people with disabilities living in the Sunshine Coast sign up?

The NDIS or National Disability Insurance Scheme is a scheme mandated by the government of Australia meant to support Australian residents between the ages of 7 and 65 with a permanent and significant disability. The NDIS was legislated in 2013 under the administration of the National Disability Insurance Agency or NDIA and is expected to be fully in operation throughout the whole country in 2020.

The NDIS will give support to eligible people with a permanent and significant disability through means of funding for the support, services, and professionals they need to help with their disability given that these needs are deemed to be reasonable and necessary to help deal with their disabilities. The NDIS emphasises early intervention for children with disabilities and adults who were disabled to quickly reduce the impacts of their disabilities and reduce developmental delay, especially for children.

The NDIS participants can select the supports, services, and professionals they need to use to cope with their disability and to eventually live their lives as normally as possible. One of the NDIS's main goals is to help their participants to develop skills they can use in their daily lives to help them live more independently.

The NDIS allows its participants to receive individualised individualised plans according to their specific needs and individual goals because of their understanding that not all participants require the same set of services to cope with their disabilities or have the same goals. To give the utmost quality support, services, and professional for its participants, the NDIS curated the best ones in the form of registered NDIS providers that NDIS participants can pick and choose for their NDIS plan.

The person with a disability needs only to apply for the NDIS through their Local Area Coordinator or visit their local NDIA Office, and once they are found eligible to become an NDIS participant, they can make their NDIS plan. Their NDIS plan determines all of the support, services, and professionals they can make use depending their needs brought on by their disabilities and their long-term personal goals.e

There are three different budget categories of NDIS funding an NDIS participant can receive and this determines the sort of support, services, and professionals they can use, depending on their specific needs and personal goals. These are core support budgets, capacity building budgets, and capital support budgets. NDIS participants can develop their NDIS plan to include a positive behaviour support plan if they use of the capacity building budget category or the core support budget support category.

Positive Behaviour Support Plan

So what exactly is a positive behaviour support plan? Firstly, positive behaviour is an approach that deals with problematic behaviour from a client, usually a child or an adult with a learning disability. The positive behaviour approach uses proactive methods that help develop the NDIS participant's skills, habits, and behaviour that will help reduce and eventually eliminate the said NDIS participant's said problematic behaviour.

Unlike more traditional methods used to correct unwanted behaviour, positive behaviour support does not use strategies such as punishments suggest ideas that the individual needs fixing. These problematic behaviours exhibited by the NDIS participants or any individual are seen as an unhealthy way of coping with their disabilities. With that said, positive behaviour support suggests that an individual's problematic behaviours are learned and can be unlearned through the introduction of more positive or productive behaviours that would render the problematic behaviours useless.

A Positive Behaviour Support Plan is, therefore, a document of a course of action that NDIS providers, usually psychologists or counselors, develop to eliminate problematic behaviours that an NDIS participant is exhibiting using the positive behaviour support method. The positive behaviour support plan will be developed with the individual's situation and problematic behaviour in mind. The positive behaviour support takes into consideration the reason why the individual exhibits their problematic behaviours and develops a plan to remedy those reasons. Thus, every positive behaviour support plan is unique to each individual.

The positive behaviour support plan will contain strategies to help NDIS participants cope with their disabilities using productive methods and eliminating problematic ones. The NDIS provider with the help of the NDIS participant's family and carers develop the positive behaviour support plan after careful evaluation of the NDIS participant.

The NDIS provider can teach the NDIS participant exhibiting problematic behaviours to develop new skills such as healthier ways of communication, how to properly manage their emotions, etc. The positive behaviour support plan provides a step by step instruction on how to deal with the NDIS participant's problematic behaviour.

The NDIS provider with the help of the NDIS participant's family and carers will administer positive behaviour support. The NDIS participant's family and carer will usually receive additional training to fully and accurately administer these positive behaviour support steps even while the NDIS provider is away. These steps need to be administered a hundred percent of the time to help the NDIS participant quickly eliminate their problematic behaviour and consistently exhibit the productive ones.

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At Positive Moods, we also offer Positive Behaviour Support Plan NDIS Toowoomba.