The NDIA and NDIS acknowledges that NDIS participants may engage in programs that include service animals to provide sporting, social and recreational opportunities for people with disabilities, and capacity building support.
This may include for example, participation in horse riding.
If NDIS participants need extra help to participate in horse riding activities because of their disability, the extra help can be funded in their plan.
This extra help could be a support worker or assistive products that help the participant engage in the activity when it is happening.
Participants might also use their therapy supports budget to work with a therapist to build their skills to do the sporting, social or recreational activity more independently in the future.
NDIS participants will still need to pay for the general costs of their sporting, social or recreational activities as these are costs that everyone must pay for these kinds of activities.
For example, everyone who wants an activity delivered to them has to pay for that activity themselves whether or not they have a disability.
This is the same whether the activity includes an animal or not. Participants cannot use their NDIS funding to pay for the costs of other sporting, recreational or social activities like surfing lessons, basketball, art classes or gaming.
