Allied health includes supports you can get to:

• make and keep you healthy
• build the skills you need to do more things for yourself
• reach your goals
• make changes to your home so you can keep living there
• receive assistive technology.

Assistive technology can:

• make it easier to do things
• keep you safe.

Assistive technology might be:

• an aid or piece of equipment
• a system to use.

We call people who provide these supports and services allied health workers.

You can find allied health workers in places like:

• hospitals
• schools
• community health centres.

Allied health does not include care from doctors, nurses or dentists.

We have created 3 checklists.

You can use them to help you work out:

• what funding you have in your NDIS plan

• what questions to ask when you make an appointment with an allied health worker

• if your allied health workers meet your needs.

Capacity Building funding can help you:

• build the skills you need to do more things for yourself
• reach your goals.

Capital funding will help you get:

• changes you need to your home so you can keep living there

• specialist disability accommodation – accessible housing for people with disability

When something is accessible, everyone can use it.

• assistive technology.

We also include information about:

• choosing allied health workers

A Service Agreement is a written plan between you and your allied health worker.

It explains:

• the supports you will use
• how your allied health worker will give you those supports
• how much the supports will cost.

You can choose a checklist below to find out more.