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Chapter 7 - Young People and the National Disability Insurance Scheme

‘The Standard Cookie Cutter Approach’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2025

Kathy Ellem ,
Paul Harpur ,
Fotina Hardy ,
Michael Ashley Stein  and
Ann Fudge Schormans
Kathy Ellem
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
Paul Harpur
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
Fotina Hardy
Affiliation:
Central Queensland University
Michael Ashley Stein
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
Ann Fudge Schormans
Affiliation:
McMaster University, Ontario
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Summary

This chapter looks at services and focuses on the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Services don’t always recognise what young people with cognitive disability can do. They can neglect young people with cognitive disability. This can lead to violence and abuse of the young person. This chapter looks at how young people with cognitive disability found support from NDIS agencies. Young people with cognitive disability had trouble getting onto the NDIS. Professionals, families, and young people needed to fight to make sure supports were helpful. The NDIS must get better for all people with disability.

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National Disability Insurance Schemeviolenceyoung peoplecognitive disabilityConvention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
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Young People with Cognitive Disability in Transition to Adulthood , pp. 141 - 154
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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