Finding & Managing Support Workers for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
How support workers help with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, how to find the right one on Novida, and how to manage them well under your NDIS plan.
Support workers provide the hands-on, everyday help that makes an NDIS plan real — personal care, getting out into the community, and building daily-living skills. This guide covers what they do for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, how to find the right person, and how to manage them well.
What support workers do for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common and severe form of muscular dystrophy. It is an X-linked recessive inherited neuromuscular disorder caused by mutations in the DMD gene on the X chromosome that result…
Finding the right support worker
The right match matters as much as the right skills. On Novida you can:
Managing your support workers
However you engage them, a few things keep support working well:
Self-managing, plan-managing or agency
How you manage your plan affects which workers you can use: self-managed and plan-managed participants can engage independent workers as well as agencies, while NDIA-managed plans use registered providers. See "NDIS…