NDIS guides for participants, families and professionals.
Deep, practitioner-written guides on Functional Capacity Assessments, NDIS funding decisions and the evidence that shapes them.
NDIS Functional Domains Explained: The 8 Areas the NDIA Uses to Decide Funding
Understanding the eight NDIS functional domains is the single most important step in preparing strong evidence for a plan review or home and living application.
NDIS Reasonable and Necessary: How the NDIA Decides What to Fund
The six reasonable and necessary criteria are the legislative backbone of every NDIS funding decision. Get them right in your evidence and your funding follows.
NDIS Plan Review Evidence: What to Submit and Why
Plan reassessments are won and lost on the quality of evidence submitted. Here is the full evidence stack that gives you the best chance of an improved outcome.
The Care and Needs Scale (CANS): A Practical Guide for NDIS Professionals
Originally developed for acquired brain injury, the CANS remains one of the most useful supplementary tools in NDIS FCAs for high-support participants.
NDIS Levels of Support: Prompting, Supervision, Assistance and Full Care
‘Requires support’ is the most over-used phrase in NDIS evidence. Knowing the precise NDIS support levels — and using them in your evidence — directly affects funding.
NDIS Funding Categories Explained: 2026 Edition
The three NDIS funding categories — Core, Capacity Building and Capital — operate under very different rules. Knowing which category applies to a support is the foundation of every successful funding application.