Specialist Behaviour Support
Rights-based, neurodivergent-affirming Positive Behaviour Support.
Registered, and open for referrals
Neurodivergent Empowered is a registered NDIS provider for Specialist Behaviour Support. Registered under 0110. Currently at capacity for 2026. If you are asking about behaviour support, get in touch. We will talk through the referral, what the assessment involves and what happens next. Specialist Behaviour Support is a distinct, individually assessed professional service. Attending The Nest does not automatically mean someone is receiving Specialist Behaviour Support. This page describes how we approach the work.
Our application to vary our registration was approved by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission on 22 September 2026. Specialist Behaviour Support is delivered by a practitioner the Commission has assessed as suitable, and is scoped individually with the person and their team.
Behaviour makes sense in context. The objective is not to suppress autistic expression or make the person easier for systems to manage. It is to improve quality of life, strengthen communication, identify the conditions contributing to distress, and support the person and their team to create safer and more sustainable environments.
We explore communication, unmet needs, sensory and environmental conditions, health, pain, relationships, trauma, demands and previous support experiences before deciding what intervention is appropriate.
What this support involves
- Specialist assessment and functional behaviour formulation
- Behaviour Support planning grounded in rights, communication, sensory safety, autonomy and environmental fit
- Consultation, implementation guidance and team education
- Monitoring, review and reduction of restrictive practices over time
How this support is governed
The NDIS Commission's Specialist Behaviour Support standards require suitable practitioners, supervision, participant involvement, functional behaviour assessment, tailored and proactive plans, implementation guidance, monitoring, review, and a commitment to reducing and eliminating restrictive practices.
You are involved throughout - in the assessment, in what the plan says, and in how it is implemented. A plan is developed with the person, not applied to them.
What this is, and is not
A current Behaviour Support Plan does not by itself make a person's attendance at a session Specialist Behaviour Support. Plan implementation is also distinct from plan authorship, functional assessment and specialist practitioner work. Where Neurodivergent Empowered has an agreed implementation role, that role is scoped explicitly with the person and their team.
The practice, explained from both sides
You Make Sense is the person and family companion: a rights-based guide to distress, communication and support that helps.
Behaviour Makes Sense is the professional companion: rights-based Positive Behaviour Support beyond compliance, including assessment, formulation, planning, implementation, review and restrictive-practice reduction.
Tanya Hicks was deemed suitable by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission to work as an NDIS Behaviour Support Practitioner on 23 April 2026. Practitioner ID: P1362818.
The Commission assesses practitioner suitability; this should not be described as authorisation or as endorsement of a capability level.
Specialist Behaviour Support is a distinct, individually assessed service. Whether it is the right support for a person, and how it is delivered, is determined with them through assessment and support-fit review.
Registered under 0110. Currently at capacity for 2026. To talk through a referral, current concerns, an existing plan or what happens next, please get in touch.