Behaviour Support — NDIS Category 15
Behaviour Support is an NDIS support category (funded from your Capacity Building budget). It covers supports like behaviour assessment, positive behaviour plans, skills development and carer & family training. Funding is based on your goals and assessed reasonable and necessary needs.
Behaviour Support (Category 15) is the NDIS capacity building category for participants who display behaviours of concern — actions that cause harm to themselves or others, or that significantly limit their participation in daily life. It funds specialist practitioners who assess the causes of…
What Behaviour Support funds
Behaviour Support is funded from your Capacity Building budget — a stated Capacity Building budget, so funding is locked to this category and is designed to build skills toward your goals. It can pay for supports such as:
- Behaviour assessment
- Positive behaviour plans
- Skills development
- Carer & family training
- Functional behaviour assessment
- Intensive behaviour support
- Crisis behaviour support
- Restrictive practices planning
How to get Behaviour Support in your NDIS plan
Which supports you receive is decided at your planning meeting or reassessment, based on your goals and assessed needs. To get behaviour support funded you generally need evidence showing how your disability affects daily life — often a report from an allied health professional. Because a support that isn’t in your plan usually can’t be added without a reassessment, raise everything you need before the plan is approved.
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Behaviour Support FAQs
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General information, not NDIS or financial advice. Category names and rules differ between legacy and PACE plans and can change — always check your own plan or confirm with the NDIA, your plan manager, or a support coordinator.