Enabling the exercise of choice and control: How early childhood intervention professionals may support families and young children with a disability to exercise choice and control in the context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme

Title
Enabling the exercise of choice and control: How early childhood intervention professionals may support families and young children with a disability to exercise choice and control in the context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Publication Date
2017
Author(s)
Brien, Jackie
Page, Jane
Berman, Jeanette
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4389-4193
Email: jberman@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jberman
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Place of publication
Australia
DOI
10.23965/AJEC.42.2.05
UNE publication id
une:22747
Abstract
THE NATIONAL DISABILITY INSURANCE Scheme (NDIS) is progressively being implemented across Australia. The Scheme aims to more equitably and sustainably support families and young children with a disability to optimise independence and participation in all aspects of their lives, including early childhood education. A key platform of the NDIS is for people with a disability to have choice and control over decisions about service provision. It is imperative to review the research that investigates what the notion of choice and control over service provision means for families and children with a disability, and how early childhood intervention (ECI) professionals can effectively support this decision making. In this article we argue that to effectively support families and children to experience choice and control, ECI professionals must build and share specialist knowledge and expertise to support informed decision making, engage in positive relationship-building practices and develop a shared approach to accountability with families.
Link
Citation
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 42(2), p. 37-44
ISSN
1839-5961
1836-9391
Start page
37
End page
44

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