NDIS Behaviour Support Plans
Our Behaviour Support Practitioners understand that behaviour happens for a reason and behaviours of concern are no different and NDIS Behaviour Support Plans can help significantly. Behaviour is a form of communication and our role is to try and understand or determine what your child or young person is trying to communicate. Behaviour support and NDIS Behaviour Support Plans can help children, young people, their families and carers prevent or reduce behaviours of concern, which usually occur when a child or young person is experiencing difficulties communicating their needs effectively within their environment. Our qualified and experienced Behaviour Support Practitioners work closely with you to develop quality, usable NDIS Behaviour Support Plans for supporting children and young people with a developmental delay or disability such as autism or a learning disability.
Beam Health is registered for NDIS supports including the development of NDIS Behaviour Support Plans and has numerours registered NDIS Behaviour Support Practitioners ready to assist you and your child, teenager or young adult.
How Can Our Behaviour Support Practitioners Help?
We are NDIS registered for Behaviour Support Plans and deliver evidence-based services including functional behaviour assessments, NDIS Behaviour Support Plans, behaviour therapy and intervention. Our experienced Psychologists and Behaviour Support Practitioners use evidence-based approaches focusing on a range of preventative strategies to assist with developing new skills, communicating effectively, managing emotions and more.
To find out more about eligibility for NDIS funding, please visit: https://www.ndis.gov.au/
Every child and young person is different, and the goals will depend on their individual needs. Some aims of behaviour support and Behaviour Support Plans may include:
- Helping families and carers to identify causes of behaviour and how to effectively support this
- Empowering children and young people to communicate their needs in appropriate ways
- Providing children and young people with strategies to express or regulate their emotions
- Implementing environmental adaptations to support the child
- Reducing aggression and other disruptive behaviour
- Teaching appropriate replacement behaviours
- Understanding and following instructions
- Improving school performance and attention
This is all done by our registered NDIS Behaviour Support Practitioners through a quality assessment involving you, your child and key people in their life, development of an evidence-based NDIS Behaviour Support Plan, behaviour support and intervention strategies and more.
We can help in the following areas:
An NDIS Behaviour Support Plan is a written document developed by one of our NDIS registered Behaviour Support Practitioners or Psychologists in consultation with the person, their family and those who support them. Informed by a comprehensive data collection process, it is essentially a practical “how to” support guide that outlines how to support a person and respond when they are displaying behaviours of concern. It also details clear evidence-based strategies and skill development that will reduce the persons need to use behaviours of concern in the future.
The process usually involves an initial meeting, collection of a range of data, observations of the child or young person in a natural environment, completion of a Functional Behaviour Assessment and input of all the key people involved. Once the plan is finalised and agreed by key people, Beam Health can provide ongoing therapy and intervention, for example, direct support in the home, at school or in other regular environments.
Beam Health NDIS registered Behaviour Support Practitioners and Psychologists provide ongoing behaviour therapy aimed to bring about positive and meaningful change in behaviour. It teaches children and young people, and their families and carers, everything they need to know in order to functionally access their world. If a child or young person has the understanding of how to obtain everything he or she needs, in the most appropriate manner, he or she will use this knowledge. By being able to effectively communicate our wants and needs, challenging behaviours no longer have any purpose.
Behaviour Therapy goals and strategies may often be informed by a Behaviour Support Plan or may be working towards gaining a clear understanding of the purpose and nature of challenging behaviours. Therapy can occur at our clinic or in another more natural environment, such as home or school. Beam Health is NDIS registered for Behaviour Support.
Beam Health can also engage Speech Pathologists in a multidisciplinary team approach to strengthen the therapy support for certain children and young people.
A functional behaviour assessment (FBA) identifies where, when and the likely reasons why a behaviour of concern happens. This is often called the ‘function’ of the behaviour. The information is usually then used to inform a behaviour support plan that includes evidence-based strategies to address the reasons why the behaviour is occurring.
Functional Behaviour Assessments are conducted by qualified and skilled professionals with an understanding of why behaviours are occurring.
