00:00At just two years old, Stephanie has been an inpatient at nine different hospitals,
00:07and until recently living in regional Queensland.
00:10In order to provide Stephanie with the best life, I made a decision as her single mother to move her to a capital city.
00:19Stephanie has quadriplegia cerebral palsy,
00:22and in Darwin her physiotherapist can access an allowance to visit her daycare to assess her needs.
00:28Now, a cap on those allowances may end that service.
00:33I may as well have not done the big move and continued services on Tally Health.
00:41Six-year-old Oscar has been taught how to independently climb stairs and navigate the playground.
00:46His communication improved from out-of-clinic care.
00:49He's able to tell us when we stop the swing, he's actually able to tell us that he wants more,
00:53so he'll tap his chest and then he'll say please.
00:56For NT physiotherapists, the NDIS pricing change will also mean a $40 decrease in hourly pay, as well as the travel cap.
01:04Here, remote Indigenous communities are expected to be hardest hit, as practices struggle to maintain services.
01:11Travel's not a luxury here in the NT. It's a challenge. It takes weeks of planning.
01:17The NDIS says the travel cap will encourage more efficient scheduling by providers,
01:23but voices from the sector say state and territory healthcare systems will bear the brunt of this change.
01:28Medium to long term, people are going to have more issues that may mean that they need to present to the emergency department.
01:37Money saving measures becoming costly.
01:44The NDIS says the travel cap will always be costly.
01:54The NDIS says the NJopa sector ofOhio, to help you.
01:58The NDIS says the NJopa sector of the NDIS.
02:00The NDIS said the NJopa sector of the NDIS.
02:02The NDIS included the NJopa sector of the NDIS.
02:04HeadUnt tão-indigated as the NDIS.
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