Assistive equipment for recreation

Recreation can offer opportunities for social inclusion and participation, as well as the

associated benefits of improved health and well-being, improved skills and capabilities,

heightened self-esteem and enhanced enjoyment of life for both the participant and their

support network.

Recreation supports include, for example:

• specialised sporting equipment or modification of equipment;

• personal assistance to participate in recreation activities, for example changing

into sports clothes, manipulating equipment, positioning to undertake the

activities;

• assistance to travel to a recreation event in which the participant is engaged,

where it is not reasonable to expect that family or the community would provide

the transport and where the participant is not able to independently use public

transport; or

• assistance for organisations to adjust to the specific needs of their member who

is a NDIS participant where that adjustment is not part of their universal

obligations under reasonable adjustment (for example, training for a team captain

to assist his or her football team to adjust to the needs of a team member who

has an intellectual impairment).