01/07/2025
🚨 NDIS Travel Price Cuts – What It Means for You 🚨
As a mobile speech therapy provider 🚘, Sunflower Speech Pathology 🌻 has proudly travelled across Sydney to provide essential services directly to homes, schools, and communities. But with the newly released NDIS 2025–2026 Pricing Arrangements, travel reimbursement for mobile therapists has been significantly reduced — and the consequences are serious‼️
Here’s what it means:
🌻 Therapists are being forced to reduce their service areas.
🌻 Families will struggle to find local therapists with availability.
🌻 Mobile services may no longer be sustainable — pushing therapists back into clinics.
🌻 Participants will be expected to travel themselves, which is not always possible.
🌻 Despite 7 years of inflation, there’s been no increase to speech therapy hourly rates.
🌻 Burnout is rising in a field made up of over 94% women in Australia.
🌻 These changes threaten accessibility, equity, and choice — the very values the NDIS was built on.
💌 All Sunflower clients should have received an email with new/amended Service Agreements. Please sign and return at your earliest convenience.
📣 Take Action Now:
If mobile services matter to you, email your local MP and contact the NDIS to request a reversal of these cuts and reinstatement of the original travel pricing.
Let’s protect access to mobile therapy services for those who need it most. 💛
