Services can be funded through a variety of avenues such as;
- Private paying
- Medicare ‘Chronic Condition Management Plan’ (this plan can be accessed through your GP and provides 5 subsidised sessions per calendar year)
- Medicare M10 item group for complex neurodevelopmental conditions and eligible disabilities (this requires a GP referral and provides a maximum of x8 assessment sessions and x20 intervention sessions over ones lifetime)
- Eligible disabilities will include any of the following conditions;
- (a) sight impairment that results in vision of less than or equal to 6/18 vision or equivalent
- field loss in the better eye, with correction;
- (b) hearing impairment that results in:
- (i) a hearing loss of 40 decibels or greater in the better ear, across 4 frequencies; or
- (ii) permanent conductive hearing loss and auditory neuropathy;
- (c) deafblindness;
- (d) cerebral palsy;
- (e) Down syndrome;
- (f) fragile X syndrome;
- (g) Prader-Willi syndrome;
- (h) Williams syndrome;
- (i) Angelman syndrome;
- (j) Kabuki syndrome;
- (k) Smith-Magenis syndrome;
- (l) CHARGE syndrome;
- (m)Cri du Chat syndrome;
- (n) Cornelia de Lange syndrome;
- (o) microcephaly, if a child has:
- (i) a head circumference less than the third percentile for age and sex; and
- (ii) a functional level at or below 2 standard deviations below the mean for age on
- a standard development test or an IQ score of less than 70 on a standardised test of intelligence;
- (p) Rett’s syndrome
- (q) fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD);
- (r) Lesch-Nyhan syndrome;
- (s) 22q deletion syndrome;
- (t) Stuttering;
- (u) a speech sound disorder, including:
- (i) an articulation disorder; and
- (ii) a phonological disorder; and
- (iii) childhood apraxia of speech (also known as dyspraxia, developmental verbal dyspraxia or speech apraxia); and
- (iv) dysarthria;
- (v) cleft lip;
cleft palate;- (x) cleft lip and palate.
- Eligible disabilities will include any of the following conditions;
- NDIS (self managed or plan managed)
- Department of Communities and Justice
- The Department of Veterans’ Affairs
Helpful links:
https://www.ndis.gov.au/applying-access-ndis/am-i-eligible
https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/gp-chronic-condition-management-plan?context=20
Professor Sarah Verdon - Speech-Language Pathologist 