Submission
No 81
INQUIRY INTO FOUNDATIONAL AND DISABILITY
SUPPORTS AVAILABLE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG
PEOPLE IN NEW SOUTH WALES
Name: Name suppressed
Date Received: 13 August 2026
Partially
Confidential
My 8 year old son has ASD level 2 and ADHD as well as hypermobility. He has been receiving NDIS support for a few years now. My son was attending school. He ended up repeating Kindergarten because he couldn’t emotionally handle going in to year 1 and was crying, yelling, running away and hiding under the table. He began to be verbally and physically aggressive with us at home. I appreciate the help I was given by EACH with the NDIS application and I appreciate that he could get early intervention help without a diagnosis as it took awhile to work out what was going on. Things got worse before they got better. He ended up becoming verbally aggressive at school too and we pulled him out of school to homeschool him. Over the years he’s had (not all at the same time) speech therapy, OT, Physical Therapy,
Early Intervention Support in Social Skills and Emotional Regulation and Positive
Behaviour Support. The PBS was they best thing for us as it helped us work out what triggered his behaviour and what calms him down. A couple of years ago we couldn’t do any after school activities with him, he just had meltdowns. It was hard to take him to the shops and to church. We would stay home rather than go out to friends’ houses as his behaviour was hard to manage. With all this support we’ve been able to have him involved in activities and we’re going out and doing things again together as a family again. I’m very thankful to the NDIS. I hope that the new NDIS guidelines continue to have robust supports in place for people like my son who have ASD. Providing supports early helps families know how to cope and helps get children into a calmer more capable position in themselves quicker.