NDIS Behavioural Support
NDIS Behavioural Support
What is Behaviour Support?
NDIS Behaviour Support is about creating individualised strategies for people with disabilities that are responsive to the person’s needs, in a way that reduces and eliminates the need for the use of regulated restrictive practices.
The NDIS describes Specialist Behavioural Intervention Support as highly specialised intensive support interventions to address significantly harmful or persistent behaviours of concern. Development of behaviour support plans that temporarily use restrictive practices, with intention to minimise use of these practices.
How does Behaviour Support help?
- Identify form, function and context, other factors within a participant’s life that increase their likelihood of them exhibiting behaviours of concern.
- Through identifying the true function of the behaviour, we are able to find different evidence-based pathways for them to meet this need in a healthier less dangerous way.
Form
The observable behaviour –
What are they actually doing?
Function
The underlying cause –
What is the goal of the behaviour?
Context
The setting–
Where does it occur? What happens immediately before and after?