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Assistance animals including dog guides
Assistance animals, including dog guides, are animals specially trained to help you do things you can’t do because of your disability. Like all our funded NDIS supports, we can only fund assistance animals that meet the NDIS funding criteria. We look at if the assistance animal is an NDIS support that relates to your disability.
When we say ‘assistance animal’, we mean an ‘eligible assistance animal’ as defined by the NDIS Act. This is unless the context suggests that the term is being used in a generic sense.
When we say ‘your plan’, we mean your NDIS plan.
As part of the recent changes to the NDIS laws we are moving towards a new framework for planning. Rules need to be developed for this new framework. We’re working on how and when we’ll introduce these changes.
Until then, the information in this Our Guideline is about our ‘old framework’ for planning, which includes the legislative changes that became operational when the law commenced. All current plans will be known as 'old framework' plans, and we will continue to develop these until all participants have transitioned to the new framework.