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Services that provide accommodation to people with a disability and services that provide support needed to enable a person with a disability to remain in their existing accommodation or to move to more suitable or appropriate accommodation.

An adult with a disability who has a condition attributable to an intellectual or cognitive impairment, or a combination of the impairments.

Services designed to enable people with a disability to increase the control they have over their lives through the representation of their interests and views in the community. For example:

Communication formats for people who, by reason of their disabilities, are unable to access information provided in the standard format. May include interpreter services, radio and alternative formats of print medium, e.g. Teletypewriter (TTY), Braille.

A person with the qualifications or experience appropriate to conduct an assessment. Examples include behaviour analysts, medical practitioners, psychologists, psychiatrists, speech and language pathologists, occupational therapists, social workers, and persons with demonstrated experience in positive behaviour support practices. The role of the ap [..]

Chemical restraint of an adult with an intellectual or cognitive disability is the use of medication for the primary purpose of controlling the adult's behaviour. (Using medication for the proper treatment of a diagnosed mental illness or physical condition is not chemical restraint.) For the purposes of this definition, an intellectual or cog [..]