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“A package of supports that lets you choose where and how you live in the way that best suits you.” That’s how the National Disability Insurance Agency refers to Individualised Living Options (ILO), a new type of National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) funding that allows people to explore different ways to live (with friends, family, or a host) and design a support package to help them to live the way they choose.

The outdoors is for everyone, and in South Australia, the government is investing to make it more accessible, with all-terrain wheelchairs and electric trikes now available at popular tourist spots.

Have you thought about how you can best support the social and emotional wellbeing of children with disability? National not for profit organisation, Emerging Minds, has a suite of free online courses and resources designed to help foster positive mental health for children aged up to 12 years.

Before supports can be funded in the NDIS, they need to meet the reasonable and necessary criteria. So what's reasonable and necessary? We explain here.

Whether it’s motorised mobility aids, Apple’s accessibility features, eye-gaze technology or even more simple things like kettle tippers, grab-sticks or flashing doorbells, there’s no doubt that technology can make life easier, and increase your independence, if you have a disability. But what about other aspects of life?

We might not have the hoverboard from Back to the Future and the flying cars from The Jetsons have yet to zoom in, but technology is opening up access in ways we wouldn’t have dreamed of in previous generations. In Apple products alone, there are tonnes of accessibility options designed to support people with disability, from vision impairment, hearing loss and deafness, through to mobility limitations and cognitive impairment.