We answer questions from NDIS participants and find the best Service Providers.
05/03/2025
Finding the right therapy shouldn’t feel impossible. Our clients love that we help them access speech and occupational therapists faster, with both in-person and online options available.
Therapists play a key role in improving communication, fine motor skills, and daily independence. Whether it’s working on speech clarity, handwriting, or mobility, the right support makes a world of difference.
We know long waitlists can be frustrating, so we provide flexible options to help clients start therapy sooner and begin making progress toward their goals.
We are now welcoming new NDIS participants in Rockhampton and the surrounding areas! Reach out today to see if we’re the right provider for you.
Get in touch with Darren Waine at Disability Pathway Solutions to find a great support worker who can give you the support and training that you want. Send an email to admin@disabilitypathwaysolutions.com
Our NDIS clients are learning new skills every day - from cooking meals to catching public transport. With the right support, confidence grows and independence follows.
Support workers do more than help - they teach, guide, and encourage. We focus on building skills so participants feel more capable over time. Whether it’s managing daily routines or trying something new, having a great support system makes all the difference. Seeing our clients take steps toward independence is what drives us. With patience, guidance, and the right approach, progress happens every day!
We’re welcoming new participants in Rockhampton and surrounding areas. If you or a loved one is ready to build confidence and independence, send us a message - we’d love to help!
16/02/2025
Hi all. 😊 This is Darren from Disability Pathway Solutions in Rockhampton and covering the coast and Central Qld.
We have been posting many interesing blogs on our website and here is an NDIS news item about NDIS Assistive Technology: And what is that, I hear you ask. Click the link to find out.
Some of these blogs/news/changes can be found under the menu heading of NDIS. A number of these blogs are below;
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*1st and 2nd Changes for Music and Art Therapy Funding;
*How Recent NDIS Changes Could Impact Therapies;
*Impairment Notices - What you Need to Know;
*NDIS Assistive Technology: All you Need to Know;
and
*NDIS News: Breaking News by Bill Shorten;
and
*NDIS Q&As:
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* A Plan Manager's Role
* What is an LAC?
and
A list of roles of a Support Worker:
* Daily Personal Care
* Food and Meal Preparation
* In-Home Care
* Development of Daily Living Skills
* Social Events and Community Access
* Activity Goals
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Should you want further information regarding the NDIS or our business, please contact us via message, or email us at admin@disabilitypathwaysolutions.com.au
or call us: 0402 058 904
Thanks for reading this post. 🙂
Darren
Disability Pathway Solutions.
Learn about NDIS changes effective October 3, 2024. Understand eligibility, supports, and budgeting updates. Stay informed with us!
13/12/2024
I am pleased to share my son's new website that has just gone live today. Darren owns Disability Pathway Solutions in Rockhampton and has set up Q&As on everything you wanted to know about the NDIS and all service providers. Click on the home page below to take a look.
Access tailored NDIS services at Disability Pathway Solutions. We connect you with support workers & therapists for better independence.
20/10/2024
Disability Pathway Solutions
📢 SUPPORT WORKER FORTNIGHTLY POSITION available for Yeppoon teenage male client from Friday 25 October24.
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NDIS RECOMMENDED WEEKDAY RATE IS $74.63 PER HOUR and fast payment of invoices within 2-4 days after invoice approval.
✅ We have an opportunity for an experienced support worker who is computer literate, mobile minded, and has an understanding in how to connect with a Zoom meeting for online therapy sessions.
✅ FREE TRAINING IS PROVIDED FOR SUPPORT WORKER.
🌿Key responsibilities but not limited to:
Position is a two hour shift fortnightly from 2.00pm to 4.00pm on a Friday only and appointments are set up from 25 Oct 24 to 6 December 24 and restarting on 31 January 25.
🌿Provide reliable support to the client, ensuring his anxiety is settled.
🌿Interact effectively with his mother and other professionals
✅REQUIREMENTS:
🌿 Previous experience in a similar life or working role with a teenager and his family.
🌿 Must hold an ABN and a full driver’s license and have a reliable vehicle with full comprehensive car.
🌿 BE WILLING TO OBTAIN:
🟢A current NDIS Worker Screening Check
🟢 A current National Police Check/Clearance
It is always good to hear from a person who is experiencing any type of disability so that we can understand their point of view and true-life experiences.
"Holiday Guide to Autism
My name is Jack.
I have autism.
My autism means I like my schedule very, very much. I like to wrap myself in routine like a soft, cozy blanket.
Loud noises make me nervous. Do not be surprised if I put my hands over my ears when I walk in the door. I need to filter out all the different sounds until I get used to them.
The doctor says I am very tactile. This means I use my fingers to see things. It is okay for you to ask me not to touch things that are important or fragile. It is also okay for you to put them away before I get there.
Please, don’t be upset if you give me a present but I don’t look very excited.
I love getting a present. I really do.
But after I open it, I have to take my time and look at it carefully and decide how it will fit inside my life. I might be so busy thinking about this that I forget to say thank you.
Try not to say words that sound like maple syrup drizzled over a beehive. The kind that taste sweet in your mouth but are meant to give little stings.
Don’t suggest the gluten-free diet when you see me eating a roll with a lot of butter.
Don’t say maybe my autism would get better if I would learn to stop pacing around the floor so much.
Don’t talk about how the latest research states kids like me who take medicine every night will maybe one day get a third eye or the disease of cancer.
Please, don’t insist I pet your dog.
Don’t insist I try your yams.
Don’t insist I sit the whole time for dinner.
In fact, don’t insist anything.
My mother and my father will do the insisting if they want. They know how to stretch me like a rubber band—just far enough so I don’t break.
They know when is the right time to make me try a new food. They know when to make me sit and when to let me pace.
It can be a help for me if there is a quiet place where I can go and do my breathing. It doesn’t have to be anywhere special—an extra bedroom or your sewing room is good.
When it comes to our family, try not to look at your clock too much. Sometimes we are late for parties.
This can be for many reasons. Maybe I took a long time to get dressed.
Maybe I had to keep going back and making sure my pillows were straight on my bed.
If we are late, don’t sing out about our lateness in a weird voice like this: you’re laa-aate! It makes all of us feel bad.
Sometimes, we have to leave early.
When we have to leave early it’s because I have had enough. I have had enough of the smelly food and the loud talking. The breaks in the sewing room aren’t working anymore.
If this happens, please don’t ask why and say we haven’t even had pie yet and can’t we stay a little while longer.
You see, autism families do not measure time in seconds or minutes or hours like everybody else.
We measure it in sensory overload, lack of schedule, and broken ornaments.
Another thing is I don’t like hugging. This is because when people touch me I feel like I am drowning and maybe my skin will come off my body.
This doesn’t mean I don’t care about you. I do. My caring just looks different.
Ask me things.
Ask me about cookies and my school and my music.
I love music.
Listen for my words, for I take longer than most to say them.
I will tell you that my favorite song is by Ariana Grande, and that I tried a new recipe for chocolate chip cookies the other day that said to use Crisco instead of butter.
Ask me.
I will tell you.
Keep your eyes on my face while I search for a way to explain it.
Keep your hands still while you listen to my quiet, halted speech.
Keep my words close to you, for they are the rarest of gifts.
Because inside of our beating hearts, I think we all want the same things. We want to eat food that tastes good on our tongues, and to feel safe and warm and calm like we are wrapped in a soft blanket.
Meet me where I stand.
Hear me when I speak.
See me as I am.
Thank you.
In case I forget to say it.
Thank you."
Shared with permission from Carrie Cariello
19/09/2024
Receive reliable and prompt support that you need and want from Darren and his team at Disability Pathway Solutions. Call 0494 056 233
28/08/2024
🌿 27 August 2024
🥳 THE GOVERNMENT'S NDIS LEGISLATION HAS PASSED PARLIAMENT.
The following is what we at Disability Pathway Solutions know up to date.
👍The FACTS we have about changes to the NDIS.
✅ Key points…
Read this blog now at: https://www.facebook.com/DisabilityPathwaySolutionsBlogs
DISABILITY PATHWAY SOLUTIONS ARE BASED IN YEPPOON AND ROCKHAMPTON AND WE COVER ALL AREAS OF CENTRAL QUEENSLAND. ABN: 496 7871 7616
We listen to NDIS participants and find a good balance of support workers and therapists who care.
13/07/2024
Meet Tracy Davey A mum with heart failure and another with lung cancer, who both have kids with disabilities, are among the hundreds of South Australians impacted by the closure of an NDIS business.
Tracy Davey, who has heart failure and three children with autism, now has the difficult task of finding a new NDIS provider for her kids after an Adelaide business was forced to close its doors.
She is one of hundreds of people in South Australia impacted by the closure of a well-respected business providing essential support for families like hers.
This week Gabby Hall, owner of My Care Planner, reluctantly announced she was shutting down her business at the end of August.
Most of the clients are local because unlike similar providers she has an office, so clients can meet their support co-ordinators and plan managers face-to-face.
The closure follows a decision by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) – which runs the scheme – to freeze pay for support co-ordinators and other services for the fifth year in a row, making the business unviable.
A number of NDIS businesses from across the country closed immediately after the pay freeze was announced at the end of June – with hundreds of others indicating they will pull out of the NDIS in the next six months.
A good support co-ordinator can save the taxpayer money, by making sure clients are matched with quality providers where they see better outcomes, or help troubleshoot.
People with complex cases are often given a limited number of hours a year for help from a support co-ordinator.
A support co-ordinator can claim a maximum hourly fee at $100.14. Out of that comes the cost of the business, as well as other employee benefits, meaning good quality providers are finding it harder to remain viable.
Ms Davey, a single parent to Katherine, 16, Noah, 14, and Maddison, 12, relies on My Care Planner’s support co-ordination service to manage their various therapies, and complicated schedule, in the most economical way for the family.
She now fears she will struggle to find a support co-ordinator willing to take on all three of her children, because of their complex cases.
“Between the three of them there are multiple therapies and appointments,” Ms Davey said.
“It is hard to juggle all of that without help.
“Gabby and her team are absolutely amazing. They make you feel you are genuinely cared for. If there is ever an issue they sort it out.
“I am in heart failure and I need to reduce stress.”
Another client is Amber, 13, who has an intellectual disability.
Her mother Trish Van Oevelen, 58, from Hackham West, said this will be the fourth support co-ordinator she will have to find in 18 months.
“The first was absolutely terrible, the second was shonky and the third one, Gabby’s, was absolutely amazing, but now they’re closing because of the pay freeze,” Ms Van Oevelen, who has stage 4 lung cancer, said.
Ms Van Oevelen said before finding My Care Planner they had a support co-ordinator that ripped them off.
“Amber was being charged thousands and nothing was ever done,” Ms Van Oevelen said.
“The first one we had was just hopeless.”
She said she doesn’t have a clue about how to find the right support for Amber, which is why she is worried she won’t find another good one like her current one at My Care Planner.
“The shonky ones just put the fees through and you see the plan funds going down,” Ms Van Oevelen said. - adelaide now
06/06/2024
Alex Browne, Senior Support Coordinator, Psychosocial Recovery Coach, and Access Manager at Fighting Chance, will guide you through the new NDIS access process.
Alex Browne, Senior Support Coordinator, Psychosocial Recovery Coach, and Access Manager at Fighting Chance, will guide you through the new NDIS access process.
03/05/2024
Hello all.🙂
This is Darren.
✅We at Disability Pathway Solutions, Navigators in NDIS Support, are here for you in Yeppoon and the Central Queensland regions.
😞 Are you on a therapist’s waitlist? So frustrating, we know.😟
👍To fast-track a therapist’s visit, please get in touch with our Client Relationship Manager, Patricia.
📞M: 0494 056 233
E: admin@disabilitypathwaysolutions.com.au
✅If you need other service providers, we have experienced support workers, domestic cleaners, and gardeners, who are caring, flexible, and professional. To receive our support, the participant must be either plan-managed or self-managed.
👍We also have a BLOG page, Disability Driven Blogs with more blogs coming.
✅You will find the link on our page as above. Request a topic and we will write a blog for you.
If you find the contents interesting, please like and follow for further information about us and the NDIS. Thanks, Darren and the team.😊
📞M: 0494 056 233
ABN: 49678717616
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Get a helping hand from Help Solutions for NDIS Disability Issues.
Are you finding it difficult to understand and navigate your way through the NDIS? After all, you probably have a huge workload in what you are doing everyday without worrying about finding the appropriate Service Providers and understanding how to get their invoices paid.
I hear you asking who are Help Solutions for NDIS Disability Issues?
Patricia Waine is your local Representative in Yeppoon and will be happy, if needed, to give you tuition on how to find Therapists, Physios, Speech Pathogists, Podiatrists and all other providers.
Now I hear you asking who is Patricia Waine? Patricia has lived in the Central Qld region for many years and in Yeppoon for the past ten years. She has been on a Disability Pension since 2008 and founded her small part-time computer training business. Patricia has been involved in training people of all ages and some with disabilities in how to use their computers, iPhones, Smartphones, iPads, tablets, computers and printers.
Patricia has a background in managing small businesses, which includes office administration and handling the business accounting procedures. In between managing and working businesses, she became a paid carer for her mother who suffered from Dementia for many years. Patricia does understand the constant 24/7 care that is required in these situations, but feels very blessed to have spent that precious time with her mother who unfortunately no longer recognized Patricia or her five sisters and three brothers.
To follow up for getting NDIS support, give Patricia a call on 0428 744 450 or email helpsupport4disability@gmail.com and she will be happy to answer any questions or/and set up an appointment to give you a helping hand.
The fee is recommended by the NDIS and is deducted from the participant’s funding.
