The NDIS finally produced its latest version of an especially cruel policy (see link below). The NDIS does not support young severely autistic children needing intensive evidence-based EIBI (or ESDM) when clinicians advise these early investments are needed despite what it's website suggests. This NDIS policy make it hardest for autistic children who need most disability support to access the support they need ... contrary to the UN CRPD. 

Severely and profoundly autistic children have to argue their case in the Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) against the NDIS's unreasonably adversarial taxpayer funded legal army. The NDIS spent more than $170 million in the last three years fighting participant, many of whom are children ... when 68% of the original NDIS plans that are "reviewed" turned out to be wrong and ended up being "varied" (the NDIS told a Senate Committee it was only 30%). 

Cases involving young children often take longer than average ... so young autistic children spend much of their early life in litigation with the government. Many of these children are denied legal or even advocacy support through the quasi-legal ART "review" process. 

Perhaps the most remarkable things about this new version of this NDIS Case Management Guide are that it has the same approval date as the previous version (see https://a4.org.au/node/2567 and https://a4.org.au/sites/default/files/FOI%2023.24-0029%20-%20Document%2010%20-%20ABA%20policy.pdf). Somehow, the NDIS's chief legal officer approved two versions of the same document on the one day, and the second version (link below) refers to the ART well before the ART was created.